Prompted

by Alison Hicks (Editor), Elizabeth Mosier (Editor), Therese Halscheid (Editor)

Writers from all over the world have come together as one voice in Prompted, an anthology that explores the human condition via poetry, personal essays, and fiction. From internationally published author Julie Compton (Tell No Lies, Rescuing Olivia) to first-time poet Marsha Pincus, Prompted’s connective tissue lies in a deep love and respect for the craft of writing. Flavored by a diverse core of creative talent, Prompted is edited by Alison Hicks, MFA, who has been prompting writers in the Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio (GPWS) since its genesis in 1996. Hicks has published two a novella ( A Story of Images) and a volume of poetry (Falling Dreams). Prompted is the first GPWS anthology, inspired by 13 years of work.The Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio began in October 1996 with five people who met for three hours once a week in a church in Philadelphia. The process was the same then as it is today, and the workshop still meets in that same church. Hicks began a similar workshop in the Delaware County/Main Line in 1999.

174 pages, Paperback

First published May 22, 2010

About the author

Alison Hicks is an author of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction living in Havertown, PA. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona, and did her undergraduate work Summa Cum Laude from Bryn Mawr College. She is founder and director of Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio creative writing workshops, which offers community-based writing workshops in the Philadelphia, PA area. She is also a member of the Osage Poets group in Philadelphia. Her books are Kiss, a full-length collection of poems, Falling Dreams, a poetry chapbook, Love: A Story of Images, a novella, and co-editor of Prompted, an anthology of work from the first 13 years of Greater Philadelphia Wordshopa Studio.

Alison enjoys camping and canoeing with her husband and son, and walking their Treeing Walker Coonhound. Cooper.