Prompt to Page

A JCPL librarian interviews published writers about their favorite writing promptsexercises that can help inspire, focus, and improve your creative writing.

Author: Jessamine County Public Library

A JCPL librarian interviews published writers about their favorite writing promptsexercises that can help inspire, focus, and improve your creative writing. Whether youre a beginner or a pro, a novelist, essayist, or poet, youll find ideas and advice to motivate you to keep writing. A partnership with the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.
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Prompt to Page with Kevin Nance
Episode 54
Monday, 16 March, 2026

Poet Kevin Nance uses writing prompts regularly because they "can take you places that you never could have gone any other way."On this episode, Kevin discusses ways to access the part of the brain that author Marilynne Robinson believes is most creative—your "back mind." He also shares a prompt that helps his writing students "tap into their inner angst."About Kevin NanceKevin Nance is a photographer, arts journalist, and poet in Lexington. He has published widely in newspapers and magazines including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Poets & Writers, and has work in literary journals, including The North American Review, Poet Lore, Willawaw, and Still: The Journal. His four books include Smoke, published last year by Accents Publishing. Kevin was recently announced as the new editor of Yearling, the poetry journal of Workhorse Writers.