Discourse Literary Journal Monthly Writing Competition: January

For the month of January, please submit pieces that speak to the spectrum of what hope can mean. I want to hear about all the corners of life that hope takes us. With the coming of the new year, we all hope for something. We want to lose weight, make money, build friendships. The list can go on and on. It’s hope that pushes us to be the best we can be. At the same time, hope can be the idea that keeps us in a bad situation. Sometimes hope can be exactly the thing that causes our pain.

We are keen to encourage quality submissions, so suggest writers to check their stories before submitting using Prowritingaid. They have free and paid versions and are the best writing software we know to help improve grammar, readability and check for repetition, ‘sticky’ sentences and suggest alternatives.