Historias de Margaretatwood

Have ever got stuck on a plot, a word, a scene or a story so much that you can't move forward? We as writers, believe everyone has been through that "phase". To counteract that stage and to boost our writing community(and the writer in us), we all need a boost, a push to keep at it. Keeping in mind, every Sunday, NewlyWrittenBooks are going to publish a writer's empowerment quote from writers across the world, to spark the writing bug within you. Cover made by the amazingly gifted @druidoflore :)

TOP FIVE WINNER in the Dear 2114 Writing Contest - Write the Future with Margaret Atwood. In 2114, what will it mean to be together? To be apart? What if, when the next step in evolution occurs, you get left out? Would you choose to catch up, or hold on to your existence? Approximately 3400 words *I had originally paired Radiohead songs with each chapter, but the videos I used were blocked. So here are my song choices. 1. Paranoid Android 2. Fake Plastic Trees 3. Subterranean Homesick Alien 4. Nice Dream 5. Airbag

This short story is an attempt to answer the question of why women of other races were spared, despite the prevalence and empowerment of White supremacy. #MyHandmaidsTale

A brother and sister break the rules when he allows her to ride his bicycle in a world where it's immodest for a woman to do so.

Outcasts of the Order live in the wilds, barely sustained, but driven to stay alive by love, by hope, and by forming a new society: one based off of humanity over all else.

After abortion and birth control were banned, the United States of America suffered from rampant over-population. The government tried various methods to fix the problem. They attempted a one-child policy, but this was not enough--cities were running out of space, and the country was running out of resources. Finally, when food shortages and crowding threatened to bring the country down, the government came up with a solution. Only the brightest, healthiest, and morally upright people would be allowed to have children; these people would be fostered in a sheltered compound, safe from the outside world. These children would be raised to be God's salvation for the country. All others would be made infertile at age 10. In only a generation, America would rise up renewed and better than ever. These are four vignettes written in response to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

Gilead rose up while many were in denial. Sometimes its no fun being right.

We were a different story. Though the world was a hellish wasteland around us; though villages were burned to the ground in the search for Fertile; though the government was more corroded than an old battery; we managed to be happy. Through the oppression and destruction, we remained us. But I'm afraid that's about to change.

When her family finds themselves down on their luck, a hard-working and ambitious teen sets out on a quest to help them, risking her own freedom by protesting the New Order's abolishment of women's rights. Commissioned by THE HANDMAID'S TALE, a new Hulu Original series premiering April 26th.

Clyde has been patient. And he hasn't been feeling like himself lately. But what can a dead man do, except wait? This short story was an entry in the Freeze-Dried Fiction Contest with Margaret Atwood.

During her coming of age ceremony a young girl learns the true story of creation, a long forgotten story known only to the women of her tribe, a story that cannot be revealed to the men of her village who maintain complete control of the women.

Write the future with Margaret Atwood If you could write a story for a time capsule, one that wouldn’t be opened until the year 2114, what would you say? To celebrate the creation of Katie Paterson's artwork Future Library, we’re hosting the “Dear 2114” Future Library writing contest with Margaret Atwood. The Writing Contest Write a story based on one of the following prompts to enter the "Dear 2114" Future Library writing contest: *Dear 2114 - Write a story about the advice you would give the world in 2114? *This is 2114 - Write a story about what the world be like when the Future Library is opened in 2114? *Pandora's Room - Write what you imagine are in the stories of the Future Library that will be first read in 2114? Keep reading for full contest details and how to enter!

[A counterintuitive approach to the #myhandmaidstale challenge] A broken smile twisted her features into something cruel. "I'm the one who's going to make your people pay for what you did." || if you like this story, please vote and comment! ||

I shouldn't be where I am right now, intertwining my flesh with a woman who gives the devil a run for his money, but here I am.

After the Third Civil War, the United States doesn't exist. There is unrest throughout the territories. Leaders have spoken up and been shot down. Ration cards and low morale keep the populace in place. The Resistance Movement, under mysterious leadership, has been recruiting and building its ranks, looking forward to the day where the country will once again be a free nation. Saoirse, the daughter of the original writer of the constitution after the Second Civil War, is returning home, attacked, and finds herself rescued by the resistance. Her mother wrote the constitution for the United Confederation after the Second Civil War. She based her script on the original constitution, with equal rights and sovereign voices given to each colony, each person endowed with personal rights. The Allied Commonwealth disagreed: all colonies should be equal under one common ruler, no one colony richer or more endowed, each person responsible for their neighbor, everyone equal. After the Third Civil War, no one had any rights. This government took all their rights, controlled their lives, and matched their partners. Then they executed any female helped restore after the Second Civil War. But there were resistors, fabled heroes, free or in hiding, and Saoirse had been trained to follow in her mother's legacy.