Ready to grow your writing skills? Let’s do it together!
Join us for the Winter Writing Challenge.
Starting December 1st, we’re going to send you a daily writing prompt each day for twelve days. Maybe you’ll have to write a wintery-themed poem! Or draft a short description of an angry elf. Whatever the prompt, you’ll have one day to write a short poem or vignette!
If you win the challenge and write something for all twelve days, we’re going to email you a laptop sticker to celebrate! The best part? It’s all completely free!
But wait! There’s more:
BONUS 1: It’s time to join together. The more people who participate, the more opportunities you’ll have to unlock even greater group prizes. Discounts to The Company Store, Premium Memberships—we’ve got prizes galore!
BONUS 2: You’ll also get exclusive access to new writing lessons from Brad Pauquette, bestselling author of The Novel Matrix, and Alli Prince, bestselling author of Call It Consequences. By the end of these twelve days, your writing muscles will be flexed and ready for your next project!
BONUS 3: The editorial team at The Pearl has promised to keep an eye on the challenge for rising talent to publish in their magazine.
Complete all twelve days of the challenge, and you’ll get a free laptop sticker!
Here’s how it works
1. Sign up for the challenge with your name and email in the form below. This challenge is free to participate in for writers of any age or skill!
2. You’ll get a confirmation email that will tell you all about the challenge, where you’ll get to post, and more!
3. Your first prompt will arrive in your email inbox on December 1st. Use the prompt to write a poem or vignette each day, and join together to unlock new prizes!
4. Complete the prompt on all twelve days, and we’ll mail you a free Champion laptop sticker!
All of the poems and vignettes you write are yours to keep. This is just for fun. We’re offering this challenge as a way to support and encourage the community of young Christian writers.
Did somebody say “More prizes?!”
(We did. It was us.)
Work together as a group to unlock each tier!
Tier 1 – Discounts at The Company Store
If over 50 people post 6 days in a row, everyone receives 10% off the merch in The Company Store!
Tier 2 – 1-month of Free Access to The Company’s Classes
If over 50 people post 9 days in a row, everyone gets one 1-month Standard Membership to The Company! You’ll have access to a catalog of great writing lessons and classes like Introduction to Copy Editing and The Podcast Institute.
Tier 3 – 1-month Premium Membership to The Company!
If over 50 people post every day of the challenge, everyone gets one 1-month Premium Membership to The Company! You’ll have access to Arche Year and our weekly live coaching groups!
What will I be learning?
Each week, you’ll get an exclusive writing lesson! These lessons will be taught by bestselling author Alli prince, and bestselling author and Director of The Company, Brad Pauquette. Want to learn how to write better descriptions? Compelling poetry? You’ve come to the right place.
With more than 15 years in the publishing industry, Brad has worked with hundreds of authors to help them improve their work and publish their best. Brad’s newest book, The Novel Matrix, is now available from all major retailers.
Write with your friends
The Winter Writing Challenge is all about writing with a community. It’s about tackling the prompt in your own unique way, then supporting each other and encouraging one another to keep writing.
We’ll open up a special section on The Company’s Forum where you can post your poems or vignettes. That way we can all read and comment on each other’s work. You can also post what you’ve written to social media (check your email for additional instructions).
Everyone will work together to unlock better and better prizes. The more people that participate in the challenge, the more opportunity to unlock these prizes!
Meet Your Leader
The Winter Writing Challenge is presented by The Company, under the direction of Alli Prince, bestselling author of Call It Consequences and Copper Lies. Alli was also the creative mind behind Lawless: An Anthology of Short Stories Inspired by the Book of Judges. She’ll guide you on your writing journey and help spark your imagination to get your creative juices flowing!
The Winter Writing Challenge begins December 1st and goes until December 12th!
Get ready to make some friends, start a great writing routine, and step into the new year ready to tackle your writing projects!
Challenge Rules:
1. Please keep the content of the poems and vignettes you post to a PG rating. Please avoid real curse words. Violence should be purposeful. Please do not include any sexual content.
2. Moderators may remove posts and comments for any reason at any time. Moderators may remove any member from the challenge at any time.
3. You are not required to post your poems or vignettes online. You are free to signup to receive the prompts and use them on your own.
FAQ
How much does it cost to be part of this? Nothing! Nada! Zip! Every part of the challenge (lessons and prompts) are completely and totally free!
Who can participate? Anyone of any writing ability or age can participate!
What will I be writing? Each day you’ll receive a writing prompt. These prompts will encourage you to write in one of three categories – poetry, vignette, or haiku. You can interpret the prompt however you want! We love to see people using these prompts and taking them in a direction we never would have expected.
We’re offering this challenge to help you develop a good writing routine, grow your writing skills, and make some awesome friends along the way. While we do ask that you keep your writing to a PG level, what you write doesn’t have to be perfect.
Do I have to use my real name? Nope! You can use a pen name.
What are the prizes? Stickers* and, best of all, bragging rights.
You’ll all need to work together to unlock the special tiered prizes. If fifty people post for the challenge every day, everyone gets a special prize!
*Physical stickers are only available to participants in the USA.
Where do we post our stories? Once you sign up, you’ll get special access to our Winter Writing Challenge forum and our Facebook group (the group will have a post for each day of the challenge. Simply post as a comment under that post!) You can post stories there and, better yet, read your friends’ stories!
Have another question? Email us at info@writers.company.