30 Days of Fantasy — A Writing Challenge for the Wonder-Hungry

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🐉✨ Luna Asli Kolcu presents:

30 Days of Fantasy — A Writing Challenge for the Wonder-Hungry

Something’s been tugging at me lately. Not a story, but the shape of one. Not a character, but the echo of a voice.
A pull toward the unreal—toward something a little wilder, a little older, a little more alive than the world we’re told to live in.

So this July, I’m opening a door.

30 Days of Fantasy is a community writing challenge for anyone craving a month of myth-making. Every day for 30 days, I’ll share a prompt. You take it somewhere strange.

Write a spell. A prophecy. A quiet tale that starts in the cellar.
Write of portals, beasts, bargains, saints, shapeshifters, memories that refuse to stay buried.
Write something soft. Or furious. Or impossible.

All I ask is that you write with your senses open. What does your world taste like? What haunts your characters? What changes when magic touches the skin?

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✦ What kind of fantasy?

All kinds. Every flavor.

High fantasy, if you want. Bring on your warring kingdoms and ancient swords.
Cozy fantasy, too—the kind that smells like moss and cinnamon.
Or folk horror, post-magic ruins, surreal dreamscapes, underwater epics, lost gods in laundromats.
If it bends the rules of reality and makes something beautiful or terrible in the space between, it belongs.

There are no genre police here. Only open skies.

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✦ Who can join?

Anyone with a Substack and a curious heart.

You don’t need to write every day. You don’t need to be “caught up.” You don’t even need to know what you’re doing.

Just follow the thread. See where it goes.
Even if you only show up once, you’re part of the circle.

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✦ The prompts

They’ll be short. Sometimes just a title. Sometimes a line.
Always a door.

I have 30 waiting. But I’ll still accept more, if the forest sends them to you.

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✦ What to do

• Publish your piece on your Substack.

• At the top, include this:
  “Written for the 30 Days of Fantasy challenge, hosted by Luna Asli Kolcu. Come through the door.”

• Link back to this post at the end.

• Join the free chat thread—one will go up for each daily prompt.

• Post your link in the thread for that day so I can find and celebrate your work.

• Restack fellow travelers if you’d like. Signal-boosting is a small act of magic.

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✦ What you get

Not a prize.
Not a ranking.
Just the joy of making something that didn’t exist before.

You might end the month with:

• A new story seed

• A character who won’t leave

• A personal spellbook

• A full-blown portal into something bigger

Or maybe just thirty fragments of something you didn’t know you needed to say. That’s more than enough.

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And yes, I was inspired to start this by the brilliant horror challenge hosted by

Wendy Cockcroft

earlier this month. It reminded me how good it feels to write in good company.

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🗝️ First prompt arrives July 1st.
Follow this Substack. Join the chat. Stretch your imagination.

Let’s make something strange together.

With ink and echoes,
Luna

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