This Week in the Letterbox - Issue 002

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

Editor’s Note

Every week, I open the inbox not knowing what will be waiting.
This time, it was truth in its rawest form. Uncomfortable, bold, and necessary.

You’ll read about the grip of fear, the weight of forgetting, and the quiet cost of not speaking up.
These entries don’t ask for attention — they hold it. They stay with you.

That’s what The Letterbox Collective was built for.
To make space for writing that’s real, personal, and brave.
Thank you for being part of it.

With love,
Dakkota

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💌 New Letters This Week

I’m already starting to forget you by

Leftovers

Forgetting hurts way more than remembering…
👉Read the full diary entry → Diary Entry No. 5

To the Girl Who Didn’t Speak Her Truth by

Elaine Martini

You learned how to be easy to love by becoming less of yourself.
👉Keep reading → Letter No. 1

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✍️ Community Corner

📮 This Week’s Writing Prompt: Write a postcard to your future self—postmarked a decade from now.

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📅 This 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 and serialized fictional stories 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

We’re looking for diary entries, epistolary stories, and creative letters.
Submit your work → Submission Form

Read our Submission Guidelines

Thinking of submitting but unsure where to start?
You don’t need perfect prose or a polished draft. If it holds feeling, memory, or truth — even messily, we want to read it.

This collective honors honest voices. Yours included.

Why we’re doing this:
The Letterbox Collective isn’t just about publishing writing.
It’s about reclaiming expression in its most vulnerable form — writing as witness, writing as offering. Your stories matter.

💬 Join the Letterbox Circle
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

"Maybe all letters are just time travel—our words trying to arrive where our hearts once were."
—Unknown

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P.S. If this week’s letters moved you, share The Letterbox Collective with someone you trust and someone who needs to read (or write) something true.
We grow word by word, heart by heart.

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

Dakkota
Founder, The Letterbox Collective