We often feel an affinity with people who have the same first or last name (or both) as ours.  This thought gave rise to  our latest call for submissions — SAME NAME, where we write about a well-known person (living or dead, real or fictional)  and describe how we identify with that person or how we differ from that individual.

PROMPT: Select a well-known person (living or dead, real or fictional) with the same first or last name (or first and last names) as yours and describe how you feel connected to or disconnected from that person in a poem (any reasonable length) or prose piece (300 words or fewer).

WHAT: Submissions can be original or previously published poems or prose. You retain all rights to your work and give Silver Birch Press permission to publish the piece on social media and in a potential print edition.

WHEN: We’ll feature…