Come Join In the Writober Fun

Writing and Creativity Challenges>Writober 2025

🌊This post is part of this year’s Writober Blogging Challenges
🧩This post continues the Writober Events since 2016

This year’s Writober is only two weeks away. Are you looking for a fun writing challenge? A great blogging community that loves Halloween? Are you interested in exploring our fears for deeper writing and self-understanding? Then, join in for Writober 2025.

Table of Contents
What is Writober? • OctPoWriMo • Writober Flash Fiction • Halloween Photography Challenge • How to Participate

What is Writober?

Writober is a whole month of daily prompts in October to get us in the Halloween mood. It’s an accumulation of blogging events I’ve enjoyed participating in over the years whose hosts dropped away, so I took on hosting them to keep them going. Writober includes daily poetry prompts for October Poetry Writing Month (OctPoWriMo); daily image prompts to inspire stories for the Writober Flash Fiction Challenge; and daily word prompts for the Halloween Photography Challenge.

OctPoWriMo

I started participating in the OctPoWriMo daily poetry challenge in 2017. At that time Morgan Dragonwillow had been hosting it for six years. She had enjoyed April’s National Poetry Month daily prompts so much, she wanted another poetry month in the fall. I had taken the CalArts poetry workshop online through coursera.org for the first time that September and thought it would be fun to challenge myself to continue writing poetry with a daily poetry writing challenge. I also wondered how my #Writober 2 images would interact with their inspirational prompts.

I really enjoyed OctPoWriMo and even volunteered to write some of the prompt posts on the OctPoWriMo site in 2019.

Sadly, life happened and Morgan was unable to continue hosting. In 2022 the site was moved to OctPoWriMo 2022 on blogspot and the prompts are still up.

In 2023 I saw that no one was planning to host OctPoWriMo, so I took it on and have been providing the daily prompts since.

Writober Flash Fiction

I happened upon a great writing challenge called #Writober in 2016. The organizer, J.S. Nagy a.k.a @BrassGoblin, created a pinterest board and challenged himself to write a 101 word story inspired by one picture each day. He asked other writers to join him and read each other’s stories on Wattpad. The stories inspired by the challenge were fun. One of my stories was even published!

The next year, I got excited to add some of my own images to the #Writober board, so I contacted J.S. Nagy to see if he had started planning. Sadly, for me, not him, he was headed to Japan and didn’t have time for it. So I took on #Writober 2 and have continued it since.

You don’t have to use the images to inspire daily 101 word stories as @BrassGoblin suggested. I use the images as inspiration for flash fiction of any length under 1,000 words. I also use them to inspire my poetry, and/or photography.

Halloween Photography Challenge

I found Tourmaline.’s Halloween Photography Challenge in 2021. Because I love abstract photography, and illustrate my posts with my own photos, joining this challenge was perfect for me. I found the one word Halloween-themed prompts very inspirational, and really enjoyed Tourmaline.’s toy photography.

But like the other two challenges I enjoyed, Tourmaline. stopped hosting her challenge. So in 2023 I took on hosting this challenge as well.

How to Participate

Participation is easy and fun! The day’s prompt post will be up at 12:01 am Pacific Time. Read the prompts, respond to whichever challenge(s) appeals to you. Post your fun and fabulous work on your blog, website, social media, etc. and link to it in the comments, or post directly into the comments if you don’t have anywhere that you publish—make sure to add your name. Then, click on other participants’ links and leave comments on their posts, or comment on what they’ve left in the comments.

Come back each day and enjoy a whole month of Halloween fun.

I hope you’re getting as excited as I am.

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