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Prompt #32: The Body

Prompt #32: The Body

August 2022

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Suzanne Roberts
Aug 12, 2022
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Prompt #32: The Body
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Hi Friends,

I’m just finishing up a wonderful whirlwind week of teaching at the low residency MFA program at UNR-Tahoe. We all stay in the dorms together, so it’s like writing camp. It’s an exciting time full of magic, but at this point in the week, my body is feeling it. So happy Friday, from my very tired body to yours!

Because I’m running on empty, I am borrowing this week’s prompt from a writer whose work I greatly admire. I sat in on a writing workshop with Gina Frangello (I loved her latest book Blow Your House Down), and the prompt I am offering you this week came from that workshop. I also noticed that Melissa Febos mentions this same prompt in her wonderful collection of essays, Girlhood.

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