JANUARY 2025: 30 writers are invited to join a new writing-project. They are receiving a catalog of prompts for 2025. We will start publishing in May. Should your friend/family member who is writing for CoC be also interested in joining this year-long project, but has not received an invitation, please don’t hesitate to reach out! I will send you the catalog via email for you to forward it, so he or she can join in during the year at any point.
DECEMBER 2024: MERRY CHRISTMAS and a very happy, blessed new year! 🎄 ✝
NOVEMBER 2024: Dear Readers, our P.O. Box Fee was unfortunately raised, if you have a minute to spare, please be so kind to visit this GO FUND ME link, thank you so much.
NOVEMBER 2024: Twelve American writers are invited to join the third writing project for Colors On Concrete. They are receiving a prompt called „NYE“ and will be able to send in their work until the 10th of December. The prompt includes a gas station and one suspicious looking individual. All the received stories will be published on the 1st of January 2025 and will stay on the front page for the entire month.
OCTOBER 2024: Opened up a channel on Telegram for friends and family members of our writers. Feel free to ask questions there or use the email-address: colorsonconcrete@gmx.de
TELEGRAM CHANNEL LINK – TELEGRAM GROUP CHAT LINK
Four American writers have submitted their NEON TETRA stories which will be showcased for the entire month of November, on top of all other incoming stories.
Shoutout to:
1. Nora Sandoval
2. Xavier Nixon
3. Steven Leech
4. James Hampton
SEPTEMBER 2024: Ten American writers are invited to join the very first character-writing project for Colors On Concrete. They are receiving a prompt called „NEON TETRA“ and will be able to send in their work until the 10th of October. All the received stories or poems will be published on the 1st of November and will stay on the front page for the entire month.
JULY 2024: Five American writers have submitted their UTOPIA stories which will be showcased for the entire month of August, on top of all other incoming stories.
Shoutout to:
1. Matthew Boivin
2. Richard Smith
2. Tyler Bowman
4. Christopher Rowland (proceed with caution!)
5. Kenneth Zamarron (14 days late)
JUNE 2024: Recommendations:
☀️ Xavier Nixon . ☀️ Ivory Andis . ☀️ Stefan Mangina .
MAY 2024: 14 American and 2 German writers are invited to join the very first summer writing-project for Colors On Concrete. They are receiving a prompt called „UTOPIA“ and will be able to send in their work until the 20th of July. All the received stories will be published on the 1st of August and will stay on the front page for the entire month.
MARCH 2024: Wishing all readers and writers very blessed and peaceful Easter holidays.
„He is not here; he has risen!“ 🌷
JANUARY 2024: Looking for anybody who would like to volunteer by helping to type out handwritten letters. I would scan incoming letters (it might be 1-3 for your per month) which you would then type out and send to me via email. Please contact me: colorsonconcrete@gmx.de
DECEMBER 2023: Wishing all readers a very merry Christmas and a new year that’s going to be better than the past. You got this, don’t worry too much. It would all be way different if it wasn’t supposed to be this way.
OCTOBER 2023: Continuing in November. Little hold-up, my apologies.
AUGUST 2023: 3-week break. Will be back around the middle of August. Happy summer!
JULY 2023: First case of a prisoner who thought stealing articles from strangers (online journalists of the free world) would be cool. Didn’t even bother to change the British English into American English. Banned from the site. Seemingly didn’t learn all too much yet in all those years in prison.
JUNE 2023: Recommendations:
☀️ Matthew Boivin . ☀️ Timothy Freegard . ☀️ Prince SantoBriganti . ☀️ Kenneth Zamarron .
APRIL 2023: For some reason I’ve been stumbling upon, what I call, „catfish-profiles“, more and more often. Especially since the beginning of this year. It might be a coincidence or there might be something going on I don’t know about. What it means: the people behind the profiles I decide to contact and invite to become part of this website send me responses that do not match the initial eloquence of their online-profile whatsoever. For my own sake, I am going to heavily decimate the amount of prisoners I am contacting each month, until this „wave of fishes“ will seemingly have decimated as well.
FEBRUARY 2023: Receiving lots and lots of letters containing the filled-out form I am requesting from each new member, though without any piece(s) of work. Should you not already be aware: each inmate I am contacting receives a full info-sheet, making it clear to them that I do not publish anybody’s‘ profile without having received written work as well. (Besides lots of other info.) So I decided to not longer spend money on even more stamps to get back to these individuals who are only sending their forms. Since they already know what’s up. I hope you can understand.
If you can not find your friend’s/loved one’s work and/or profile on this website, chances are that their mail either has not reached me yet or that they didn’t send any work for me to publish! (It’s much more likely that the latter one is the case.)
NOVEMBER 2022: Decided to stop typing out extremely similar poems from the same writer. Not that they’re „too bad“, but just very similar. Quality over quantity.