Prompt to Page

A JCPL librarian interviews published writers about their favorite writing prompts—exercises that can help inspire, focus, and improve your creative writing. Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, a novelist, essayist, or poet, you’ll find ideas and advice to motivate you to keep writing.

A partnership with the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.

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Music Credit

Our theme music is by Archipelago, an all-instrumental musical collaboration between three Lexington-based university professors and musicians from all across the American South. Listen to “Songs from Quarantine: Volume 1” and “Songs from Quarantine: Volume 2.”