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Crafting a Community of Writers with @philipandersonedsel

For more photos and videos from the writerly community on Instagram, follow @philipandersonedsel and browse the #captionsbywriters hashtag. Be sure to click through each of the images above to read the authors’ captions.

For Austin, Texas, musician, writer and photographer Philip Edsel (@philipandersonedsel), the relationship between words and visuals has always been fluid. “When I see a powerful photo, I feel inspired to write,” he says. “It sparks a particular memory or even an imaginary scene that I want to describe.”

After bringing his own photos to life through vivid captions with lines such as “wild wind threshed through cotton shirts,” and “faithful soldiers of the season’s end,” he even challenged himself to write a “photo-novel” on Instagram during last year’s National Novel Writing Month. Through his writing, Philip discovered a like-minded community of people eager to pair words and images in new ways. And with that, he created the #captionsbywriters hashtag to connect these writers to one another and challenge them to add creative captions to their visual work.

As they came together, he could feel the emotion building. “My favorite thing to see from the hashtag is actually how excited writers get when they find out there’s a community of people they can share their work with and find inspiration from!”

“There are a lot of writers who feel like they’re limited to posting a photo of their writing typed instead of allowing their words to elevate a beautiful photograph, or vice versa. It’s also cool how differently people interpret the hashtag. I write more free-prose, but I’ve seen Shakespearean sonnets in iambic pentameter, haikus — everything really,” he says. “The challenge for me is to write short and simple pieces that feel sentimental and honest and raw.”

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