short story ice breaker bingo, spring 2024 - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. my favorite author is alive
2. ask me about my fan fiction
3. I get my best ideas in motion
4. I write drafts freehand
5. paperbacks> hardcovers
6. unlikeable narrator fan club member
7. HEA, please! romance is underrated
8. I skip around when reading story collections
9. at least one librarian/bookseller knows me by name
10. take me to your leader! supernatural stories are my jam
11. I have a hot take re: the movie was better than the book
12. the genre(s) I read most & the genre(s) I write don't match
13. i've received an encouraging rejection
14. I read the New Yorker story every week
15. I've written an author a fan letter
16. I listen to music while I write.
17. I read 52 books or more last year
18. social media blockers make it happen
19. who needs plot? just bring me beautiful sentences
20. Boo! I love spooky stories
21. I've submitted at least one short story
22. I read story collections cover to cover in order
23. I've published a short story
24. my favorite author died over 100 years ago