This week – the prompt is Z is for Zoo or zoology or zoological.

A zoo is a place full of animals – and staff, and visitors.

Your piece doesn’t have to take place in the zoo – it could be outside the zoo, next door to it, across the street.

It could be about something that happens when someone is on their way to a zoo, or reading a pamphlet about a zoo, or a meeting of a zoological society.   

Think about who else is in the zoo – members of staff, some of whom won’t have anything to do with the animals. Ticket takers, admin and PR staff, maintenance workers, café and restaurant workers…

Think about the people who are visiting the zoo – are they all they seem to be? It’s not all families taking the kids for a day out. Film or TV crews, illicit liaisons, conspiracies being cooked up, spies meeting, people unexpectedly bumping into someone they know…

It could be someone who’s demonstrating against the zoo…

You could write something from an animal’s point of view if you wanted.

Or – a bit sci-fi this one – what if someone’s observing the earth as if it’s the zoo of the universe. 

Let’s hear your stories, poems, pieces of descriptive writing connected to zoo. Pease send them to louise.hulland@bbc.co.uk ready for next week’s Writing Club on 31st March.