This Week in the Letterbox - Issue 001

Your weekly digest to epistolary stories, diary entries, and creative letters from the Collective.

Editor’s Note

Hello and welcome,

This is the first-ever Weekly Digest from The Letterbox Collective, and I just want to say thank you for being here.

This space is for anyone who finds meaning in the stories we keep, the letters we write, and the moments we carry quietly with us.

This week, you’ll find entries about:

• forgetting,

• rediscovering your creative rhythm, and

• the heartbreak of someone no longer being there.

None of it’s easy. But all of it is honest.

Read what feels right. You’re always welcome here.

With love,
Dakkota

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💌 New Letters This Week

I Thought You’d Always Be There by

Elaine Martini

I look around and I don’t see others who’ve had to let go of as much as I have.
👉 Open the diary entry → Diary Entry No. 1

Sourcing Creativity by @

Keo

“Could it be pinpricked fingers? Whispered oaths?
👉 Read the full diary entry → Diary Entry No. 2

Lethe by

Georgia

She sinks out of darkness winding through cypress and over stones.
👉 Keep reading → Diary Entry No. 3

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✍️ Community Corner

📮 This Week’s Writing Prompt
Write a letter to something or someone you had to let go of — what would you say if you had one last chance?

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📅 Next Month’s Theme: Beginnings & Endings

Between every ending and beginning lies a breath—a fragile space where stories unfold, where doors close softly and others open wide.

This June, we’re gathering letters and diary entries that live in that in-between space:

• moments of farewell,

• sparks of new paths,

• and gentle shifts that change everything.

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💬 Submissions Now Open

Want to share your own letter, diary entry, or serialized story?

Become a member of the Letterbox Circle — a supportive, editorially-guided space for tender, truthful writing.

Members receive:

• Personalized editorial feedback
• Access to monthly Letter Lounge chats
• Full access to serialized letters, diaries, and bonus content
• The opportunity to be featured in the Weekly Digest

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🌟 Contributor Spotlight

We're saving this space for you.

Soon, this section will highlight writers from the collective—
Letters that moved us.
Diary entries that stayed with us.
Stories that made us feel less alone.

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✍️ Your Voice

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✨ Inspiration Corner

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.” — Rumi

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See you next week with more letters, more truth, and more reasons to keep writing.

Dakkota
Founder, The Letterbox Collective