May Curtain Call
Weeks #37 - #40
In this newsletter you’ll find every linkable submission to all four May 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 May’s Opening Acts! These are all the linkable subscriber submissions for the past month.
Elvis Night at Andy's
#37 - “Elvis Night at Andy’s” is track #6 on Chip Martini’s debut album, No Band Required. Written, produced, and performed by Good Boy Records.
Blue Flower
#38 - “Blue Flower” is a standout track by the alternative rock band Mazzy Star, from their debut album She Hangs Brightly (1990).
Maci's Blue Flower
This is my submission to this week’s SFTJ song prompt, Blue Flower, by Mazzy Star. Subscribe now so you don’t miss out on these weekly writing prompts!
Mountain Jam
#39 - “Mountain Jam” is a classic extended instrumental jam by the Allman Brothers Band. It’s one of their most iconic live pieces — famous for its improvisational nature and Southern rock/jam band energy.
The Mountain Jam Experience
This is my submission to this week’s SFTJ song prompt, Mountain Jam, by The Allman Brothers Band! Subscribe Now so you don’t miss out on these weekly writing prompts!
Redemption Song
#40 - "Redemption Song" is a song by Jamaican singer Bob Marley. It is the final track on Bob Marley and the Wailers' twelfth album, Uprising, produced by Chris Blackwell and released by Island Records. The song is considered one of Marley's greatest works.
My Redemption Song
This is my submission to SFTJ Prompt #40, Redemption Song, by Bob Marley. Subscribe now so you don’t miss out of these weekly writing prompts!
April Curtain Call
#34 - Don't look Back In Anger, by Oasis
#35 - Woodstock, by Joni Mitchell
#36 - Life During Wartime, by Talking Heads
#37 - Adventures Of A Lifetime, by Coldplay