Here are the five writing prompts I brought to our first Churchill Writers’ session in person since last November. As usual, I opened books from my shelves at random and chose a line or two, anything at all. The context of the source doesn’t matter, what’s important is that you take a prompt and dance with it whatever way you like. Enjoy the adventure:

‘inside will be a room filled with everyone I love‘ (from Joelle Taylor’s C+nto)

‘the music is big boned, takes up the whole of the dance floor‘ (source ditto)

‘he’s killing the shadow of a life my mother lived before they met‘ (Mothersong by Amy Acre)

‘Shadows on the wall, Noises down the hall‘ (Maya Angelou, Life Doesn’t Frighten Me)

‘I’ve got a magic charm that I keep up my sleeve‘ (source ditto)

Several of the group members said they hadn’t written anything for ages and doubted that they’d be able to produce anything. Well, here they are…