Creative Writing Prompts - Visual

Every picture tells a story, but which one? Here are 8 curated, visual creative writing prompts. Each image includes a writing prompt designed to inspire your students, or help them to write from the heart.

Learning objectives:
Generating ideas, planning and drafting

Developing viewpoint, voice and ideas

Writing narratives, considering how authors have developed characters and settings

Differentiation opportunities:
Ask students to find an image they want to write a story about.

You can create your own favourite visual creative writing prompts from headlines. It’s easy to pull up images from pinterest or amazing free image sites like unsplash. All my students enjoy this activity. It can help them generate ideas and write about characters and settings they are interested in.