The Writer’s Rock Annual Review
The Writer’s Rock Annual Review is a print magazine dedicated to celebrating our community and everyone in it. Each June, every writer who’s participated in one of our workshops during the previous year is given five hundred words to respond to a prompt.
Join us at Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene on August 24th for our 2022 issue launch and reading.
Our June 2022 prompt was Breaking The Rules
As readers, we love when a character breaks the rules. It’s how we know they’re human. But rules come in many forms. There are local laws, cultural norms, and biblical commandments. There are just and unjust rules, and rules you’re unconsciously following all the time.
Our June 2021 prompt was Boundaries.
A boundary can be figurative or literal. You can cross them or draw them, ignore them or suddenly realize they exist. There's a boundary between the US and Canada, and another between my side of the backseat and my brother's. This year’s Review features writing about all of it.
Excerpts from The Writer’s Rock Quarterly: Shelter City
“A Pleasant Stroll” by Jake Grubman
“City of Refuge” by Linda Heller
“Finding Gray Matter” by Karen Koretsky
“Plague Journal, Day 23” by Gavin McCormick
“The House on Eighty-Third Street” by Dianne R. Carr
“April 8, 2020” by Martin Levine