Creative Nonfiction in The Ink Well Prompt #31
SourceWelcome to The Ink Well's weekly creative nonfiction contest!
In this post, we'll announce the winners from last week's contest and provide the prompt for the coming week.
Before You Write Your Creative Nonfiction Post...
We ask that you read our Creative Nonfiction Tips post to learn about the creative nonfiction genre and review our guidelines.
Important notes:
- Creative nonfiction stories are based on your real-life experiences.
- We are looking for real short stories! Not advice columns, reports on crime or corruption in your city, observations on nature, recipes, religion, politics, or any other nonfiction content. Just real-life short stories.
- Ideal story length is between 750 and 1500 words, but your story must be at least 350 words, at a minimum to be curated.
- Please focus on quality content. Read and edit for errors! Use a grammar checker before you post your story.
- We expect everyone who posts in The Ink Well to read and comment on at least two other stories for each one published.
- Do not post stories featuring physical abuse, graphic violence, erotica or NSFW content.
Last Week's Creative Nonfiction Winners
Thank you to all who participated in last week's prompt Agreement
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Honorable Mentions of the Week
 | Chukwuma
Unfortunately, I later found out that the real reason he was canceling with Funmi was because he wanted time alone with a new girl he was crushing on. As fate would have it, I knew the girl. In fact, everyone in our apartment complex knew the girl. She was the kind that sticks only when she feels a guy is rich. As I can tell, Chukwuma was just a struggling student as I am and so dropping Adaeze for a much hotter girl who cared only if you can spend money on her was a trip on a wrong track. Besides from what he told me he had already created an impression to the said girl that he was rich, at least to a level. |
 | Solely mismatched an everlasting agreement
From that day forward, we became experts in the art of concealment. We procured specific stockings that appeared jumbled on the surface but were meticulously harmonized underneath. It was similar to a veiled fashion dialect that only the both of us comprehended. Capturing each other's gaze with an affirmative nod communicated silently, signifying that our eccentric agreement remained unbroken. |
 | The agreement of love
Soon enough, the once nonchalant and indifferent youth who always wanted to sit at the back, was now sitting in front, reading minutes and addressing fellow people. Everything was a mess in the beginning, but within months, I adjusted properly into my new role. |
 | Loyalty how unsavoury
Now, I knew that I’d just been served an unadulterated emotional blackmail. She knew that I knew it too but there was nothing I could do. She’d trapped me with the friend card. So after making her promise that it was going to be a one-time thing, I agreed to cover up for her. |
Third Place: Wins 2 Hive
Our third place winner is
Agreement with my pupils
They swung into action and different answers were presented to me which were incorrect. I waited for everyone to submit after giving them adequate time to provide a solution to the question. David's solution was the last that I marked and to my surprise, he solved it correctly. I was amazed. I immediately called him and gave him a marker to solve what he had in his book on the board. He confidently solved the question on the board with enough explanation to other pupils to understand.
Second Place: Wins 3 Hive
Our second place winner is
Chronicle of heartbreak and friendship
It was at that moment of uneasiness and disenchantment that the need to write was born. Writing became a refuge, a way to give voice to the feelings and emotions that had flooded me. Words became allies, a means to process the lived experience and find meaning in the chaos.
First Place: Wins 5 Hive
Our first place winner is
Marriage rules without ever explicitly mentioning them
Source Own
My husband offered himself to me as a training ground and partner. Of course, he didn't tell me so, because if he had told me that he was offering himself to me as someone who would give me an opportunity to mature and learn how to deal with provocation, that would have been an anticipatory provocation for which I would have immediately closed myself off, as it would have seemed arrogant, conceited and inappropriate.
This Week's Prompt #31:
Scent
Our sense of the environment and even our connections to people, relationships and emotions are often dictated by definitive scents, aromas or perfumes.
This week we ask you to use any of the words associated with scent or smell, either good or bad, to write a personal story.
For this topic there are several possible approaches. For example:
- Tell us how a certain aroma conjures a beautiful memory, which you relish.
- Perhaps you sensed that something was wrong in a certain situation because you could just "smell the rot."
- Maybe your sense of enjoyment is heightened by the anticipation brought on by aromas emanating from the kitchen prior to a feast.
- The smell of smoke from your grandfather's pipe always alerted you to his presence and brought joy to your heart.
Tell us about it!
Have fun and good luck! We look forward to reading your stories.
Contest Rules
- You have 6 days to write your story from the date of this prompt post. Be sure to check the deadline countdown.
- Write a real-life story with the creative elements of fiction, like characters, dialogue, scene setting and a story conflict.
- Post your story in The Ink Well Community.
- Please use the tags #creativenonfiction and #inkwellprompt on these posts. Other possible tags: #writing #inkwellprompt #nonfiction
- Stories must be written in English. If you've translated the post, it's best to add the original version below the translation. Do not write mixed language paragraphs.
- Read and comment on at least two stories in the community. Add a link to your story as a comment on this post.
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Prizes
Prizes are only for stories written for this week's prompt
- First place : 5 Hive.
- Second place : 3 Hive.
- Third place : 2 Hive.
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