June Curtain Call
Weeks #41 - 45
In this newsletter you’ll find every linkable submission to all five June writing prompts.
Wanna see who won the Features? Here’s a shortcut🏆
Awards
If you’re like me, music has inspired you over and over again throughout your life. At Stories from the Jukebox — with your help, we’ll turn those songs into prose that will tell a new story, your story. 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. Here’s every one of them!
Remember:
Each Tuesday I’ll publish a newsletter with that week’s song prompt—along with a featured writer’s submission from the previous week. (It’s sent to subscribers after the Monday Deadline expires.)
Anyone is then free to run with it! Just add the link to your story or prose in the comments of that week’s newsletter. (This can be done at any time, to any prompt, past or present.)
Subscribers to Stories from the Jukebox, also have a chance to be featured in the following week’s newsletter. And I’ll do my best to give feedback and restack each submission.
There’s always rules:
All forms of prose are welcome, just keep it under 1500 words.
Submissions must be published by midnight on Monday.
Submissions must include a tag/link to this week’s Song Prompt Newsletter embedded within the post.
While anyone is welcome to add their post in the comments at any time—all rules must be followed for a post to be eligible to be featured or shared.
How would you like to pick our prompt? Find out how to join our revolving list of Headliners here.
Okay, now for June’s Opening Acts! These are all the linkable subscriber submissions for the past month.
Gangsta's Paradise
#41 - "Gangsta's Paradise" is a single by American rapper Coolio, released on August 1, 1995, by Tommy Boy, Warner Bros. and MCA Records.
My Gangsta's Paradise
This is my submission to SFTJ Prompt #41, Gangsta’s Paradise, by Coolio. Subscribe now so you don’t miss out of these weekly writing prompts!I’ve found it, Gangsta’s Paradise, But it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. You see, It’s lonely. Sure, it’s steps from the beach, Yes, there’s drinks within reach, Oh, the pleasures you reap. Alone though, The…
Brian Wilson
#42 - "Brian Wilson" is a song by Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies from their 1992 album Gordon. The song was written by Steven Page as a tribute to the Beach Boys' co-founder Brian Wilson.
Carnival
#43 - "Carnival" is a song written and produced by American singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant and was the lead single from her debut solo album, Tigerlily.
Carnaval
This is my submission to SFTJ Prompt #43, Carnival, by Natalie Merchant. Subscribe now so you don’t miss out of these weekly writing prompts!
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
#44 - "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" is a song by the British synth-pop duo Eurythmics. It was released in January 1983 by RCA Records as the fourth and final single from their second album, Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (1983).
Evrybdy's Lookn Fr Something
This is my submission to SFTJ Prompt #44 Sweet Dreams, by Eurythmics. Subscribe now so you don’t miss out of these weekly writing prompts!
The Water Buffalo Song
#45 - “The Water Buffalo Song” is the aptly named Silly Song about water buffaloes from the first VeggieTales episode, “Where’s God When I’m S-Scared?.”
VeggieTales Nostalgia
This is my submission to SFTJ Prompt #45 The Water Buffalo Song, by Larry the Cucumber. Subscribe now so you don’t miss out of these weekly writing prompts!
May Curtain Call
#37 - Elvis Night at Andy's, by Goodboy Records
#38 - Blue Flower, by Mazzy Star
#39 - Mountain Jam, by The Allman Brothers band
#40 - Redemption Song, by Bob Marely