Awards

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Each week one Subscriber Submission is awarded the Weekly Feature Award🏆 and sits in a prominent position, front and center of that week’s newsletter.

Below, you’ll find a running list of each Feature Award Winner:


Week #22 - Right Place Wrong Time, by Dr John

~TBD~

Week #21 - Mirror, by Rick West

One Soul's Journey
Mirror
When you look in the mirror, do you love who you see Do your eyes, do they glisten, or do they stare aimlessly Do you think before you judge, and never judge what you see Cause many are the defenses, I use, to hide the real me I laugh instead of crying, so I can be strong And cry when I`m angry, trying to hold on To that ray of hope, instead of the des…
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Week #20 - Colder Weather, by Zac Brown Band

Observations In Time
A Fool If You Think It Is Over
Prompt By: Stories from the Jukebox…
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Week #19 - I Still Miss Someone, by Johnny Cash

Turtle Meat Mixtapes
The Hum and The Burn
Here’s my submission for this week’s Stories from the Jukebox prompt from MJ Polk: I Still Miss Someone by Johnny Cash…
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Week #18 - Constant Craving, by K.D. Lang

Turtle Meat Mixtapes
The Week Before He Was Sentenced
Here’s my submission for this week’s Stories from the Jukebox prompt from MJ Polk: Constant Craving by k.d. lang…
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Week #17 - Bring the Pain, by Method Man

Life in the Slow Lane
A Puzzle for Miss Daisy
Stories from the Jukebox, Week #17…
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Week #16 - What a Wonderful World, by Louis Armstrong

Marty D. Snow
What A Wonderful World
Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work…
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Week #15 - “Heroes”, by David Bowie

primalbeet
Heroes
Every week, MJ Polk over at Stories from the Jukebox holds a forum where we write a piece of 1500 words max, pretty much any format, around a specific song. This week the song is David Bowie’s classic, Heroes. This is my take on it, partly truth and partly fiction. All fun…
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Week #14 - Where Is My Mind, by Pixies

SHAMAN in School Of Spirit (S.O.S.)
WHERE IS MY MIND
Hey everyone…
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Week #13 - Holy Water, by Funeral Portrait

Observations In Time
Hold Back The Water
Prompt by:Stories from the Jukebox/ Joe Nichols…
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Week #12 - Dream On, by Aerosmith

Turtle Meat Mixtapes
Rock Songs and Lullabies
Written for the Dream On prompt from MJ Polk over at Stories from the Jukebox Newsletter. I couldn’t resist—this song’s been in my bones since I was a baby…
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HC Tales
Keep dreaming
I wrote this because this week’s prompt spoke to me, and because I told MJ Polk that I might write something. So here it is. …
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Week #11 - Dear Mr. Fantasy, by Traffic

Phillip’s Substack
Dear Mr. Fantasy…
Here is my submission to this weeks writing prompt, provided by the Stories From The Jukebox Newsletter (link below…
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Week #10 - Voodoo Child, by Jimi Hendrix

primalbeet
Voodoo Child
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jIuWZaF7wb-v3OYS4myTWkF_aMThLCfR/view?usp=drivesdk…
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Week #9 - Knocking On Heaven’s Door, by Bob Dylan

Milk & Honey
The Door: Prompt by MJ Polk
This flash fiction was written in response to MJ Polk’s Stories from the Jukebox Writing Prompt. The objective is to write in response to a song, in this case it was Knocking on Heaven’s Door by Bob Dylan. I have been meaning to get to one of MJ’s prompts but this one spoke to me. I wrote it inspired by my many days spent in the hospi…
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Week #8 - Back in Back, by Brian Johnson(AC/DC)

Life in the Slow Lane
The Homecoming of Quercus Blackwood
Stories from the Jukebox, Week #8…
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Week #7 - Crazy Train, by Ozzy Osbourne

Observations In Time
A New Beginning
Prompt by: Stories from the Jukebox…
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Week #6 - Turn the Page, by Bob Seger

Everyday Behaviorist
Up On the Stage
This piece is a submission to MJ Polk’s Stories from the Jukebox, a community-powered weekly newsletter inspired by song. This week’s writing prompt was Bob Seger’s Turn the Page. My submission is below. If I had to choose a genere, it’s memoir — an internal monlogue, blended with the song’s chorus, followed by some backstage notes…
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Week #5 - Your Song, by Elton John

Like Tears in Rain
Your song
This week’s submission to MJ Polk’s Stories From The Jukebox weekly writing prompt is based on “Your Song” by Elton John. If you want to submit you have to do so by midnight on Mondays, all the instruction…
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Week #4 - The Beef, a Duel between Lynyrd Synyrd & Neil Young

primalbeet
The Beef
Hello all. As I have become more sociable on Substack, I find more cool jazz clubs in back alleys. This week I was guided by a new subscriber to Stories From The Jukebox, a weekly writing exercise hosted by MJ Polk…
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Week #3 - Three Little Birds, by Bob Marley

Scribbles in the Margin
Three Little Birds
For this week’s post I decided to try something a little different. This is a submission to Stories from the Jukebox, a weekly newsletter from MJ Polk that offers a writing prompt based on the title of a famous song. Check it out…
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Week #2 - Bang Bang, by Nancy Sinatra

Phillip’s Substack
Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)…
Here’s my submission to what is fast becoming one of my favourite writing prompts…
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Week #1 - Let It Be, by Paul McCarthy

Phillip’s Substack
Let It Be…
This poem was inspired by a writing prompt from the incredibly supportive @MJ Polk at The Southern Copywriter Blog (link below…
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