"This work is unlike any other, in its range of rich, conjuring imagery and its dexterity, its smart voice. Carroll-Hackett doesn’t spare us—but doesn’t save us—she draws a blueprint of power and class with her unflinching pivot: matter-of-fact and tender." —Jan Beatty

Archive for December, 2015

Sometimes the Prompt Comes to an End

Daily Prompt
 
Last day of grading, semester ending. Make art about something coming to an end.
 
endings

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Friday Call For Submissions Love! TulipTree Review

TulipTree Review

Stories That Need To Be Told

TULIPTREE REVIEW is a quarterly print literary journal accepting submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. There is no reading fee and authors whose works are accepted will receive free subscriptions. For guidelines and contact information, visit www.tuliptreepub.com.

GENERAL SUBMISSIONS

No Reading Fee

You can submit your work at any time for free if you would like to be considered for publication in the TulipTree Review.

How It Works

General submissions are not eligible for cash prizes. If your work is selected for publication in TulipTree Review, you will receive a one-year subscription toTulipTree Review.

How to Format Your Submission

  • Entries should be in Microsoft Word-compatible or PDF format and sent as an attachment to an email (not in the body of the email).
  • Fiction and nonfiction entries should be double-spaced.
  • Poetry format is open; for general submissions please put all of the poems in one document.

INCLUDE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION

In the body of your email…

  • Include your name, mailing address, and title(s) of the work(s) you are submitting.
  • Include a bio that will appear with your work if it’s published.
  • Also, because we are usually accepting submissions for various anthologies as well as the journal, please indicate in the subject or body that your submission is for TulipTree Review.

​On your submission…

  • Include your name, mailing address, email address, and title of the work on the first page.

Word Limits

There are no word limits (min. or max.) for general submissions.

Legal Stuff

By submitting your work, you are stating and agreeing that (1) the work is your own original work, (2) no one else owns the rights to publish said work, and (3) you are granting TulipTree Publishing, LLC (TulipTree) the right to publish said work, unless you withdraw your work prior to TulipTree’s decision to publish.

TulipTree does not retain rights to your work after we publish it. If it is published again we ask only for an acknowledgment in the new publication (e.g., “previously published in TulipTree Review,” etc.).

How to Submit

Email general submissions to submissions@tuliptreepub.com.

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Hundreds of writing and creativity prompts here!!

  Check it out and share! Thanks!

Don’t Miss the Writing Prompts Page! 

Writing Prompts

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Naming & Healing

12/5/2015

I haven’t put up a Christmas tree since 2011, the year both my husband and brother walked on to the next life. This year, I’m finally putting one up again, and covering it with crazy little angels I’ve been handmaking from clay and fabric for several weeks. I’m calling it my Healing Tree. Make art about healing.

12/6/2015

Quiet Sunday morning with my son.  Make art about quiet.

12/7/2015

“So many names, my mother, I’m never sure what to call you.”~Rudy Make art about names, about naming.

Itty Bitty Angel Tree

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Monday Must Read! Sarah Busse: Do It Yourself Airplanes

Monday Must Read!

sarah busseThis week meet Sarah Sadie (Sarah Busse). Sarah is co-editor of Cowfeather Press and one of the Poets Laureate of Madison, Wisconsin (2012-2015). Her poems and books have won the Council for Wisconsin Writers’ Niedecker and Posner Prizes, as well as a Pushcart. Her most recent chapbook, Do-It-Yourself Paper Airplanes, was published in 2015 by Five Oaks Press.

Sarah teaches online at the Loft, at the University of Iowa’s Summer Writing Festival, and occasionally elsewhere. These days you can find her blogging at Dowsing for Divinity on the Patheos Pagan channel, tweeting as @sarahsadie1313 and occasionally posting articles, pictures and notes of interest at sarahsadiesadiesarah.tumblr.com. This month she is participating in Tupelo Press’s 30/30 poetry challenge.

Buy Sarah’s beautiful books!

Do-It-Yourself Paper Airplanesc

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Somewhere Piano

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Given These Magics

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Visit Cowfeather Press

http://cowfeatherpress.org/

Follow Sarah on Tumblr:

http://sarahsadiesadiesarah.tumblr.com/

Read More of Sarah Online

http://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=442

http://www.webdelsol.com/Perihelion/busse.htm

http://www.dmqreview.com/nov02/bussej.html

http://www.dmqreview.com/nov02/busseo.html

http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/03/sarah-busse-evening-walk-mid-march.html

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

 

 

 

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Sometimes the Prompt Requires Action

Daily Prompt

Mornin news story on how law enforcement s now strongly encouragin people to report it if their neighbors are actin odd or “suspicious.” One of the signs they mentioned is havin lots of deliveries, like from UPS. If this is the standard, I’m screwed. Totalitarianism for breakfast 😦

Because I think we need to….Make art about resistance.

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For the Consideration of Poets

by Haki Madhubuti

where is the poetry of resistance,

the poetry of honorable defiance

unafraid of lies from career politicians and business men,

not respectful of journalist who write

official speak void of educated thought

without double search or sub surface questions

that war talk demands?

where is the poetry of doubt and suspicion

not in the service of the state, bishops and priests,

not in the service of beautiful people and late night promises,

not in the service of influence, incompetence and academic

clown talk?

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art is resistance

 

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! Conclave: Looking for Work Focused on Change

Conclave 

(Feb 2016 issue)

Ends on 1/15/2016

As this established literary journal changes hands, the theme for the next edition accordingly focuses on change as an inevitable force in our lives, ideally though not certainly a force for progress and growth. We’re looking for contributions relating to political and social change and well as changes in the human character. We’re looking for work that envisions the future, better tomorrows and bitter tomorrows, changes in love and life and the heart of humankind.

Conclave: A Journal of Character seeks poetry, fiction, and non-fiction of exceptional literary merit. The work we seek has a transcendent aesthetic impact on the reader. It is not merely about the mystery of being, but heightens the reader’s sense of the mystery underlying the fabric of our daily lives. We are looking for work about character or work that displays character, that holds it up to a fresh light and helps reader see what they did not see before.

We seek to be broad, inclusive, and open to perspectives spanning all spectrums of thought, ethnicity, gender identity, and sexual orientation.

We are interested in work originally written in English and work in English translation from any language. We are interested in all genres, including mixed or multiple genre works, or work that simply defies classification.

Guidelines:

1   We are an environmentally conscious journal and only accept submissions through Submittable.

2   Format and Length. Poetry: Submit 1-3 original, unpublished poems, in a single document, each poem on a separate page, no longer than 10 pages total. Short Fiction: Submit 1 story, no longer than 5000 words. Creative Nonfiction: Submit one essay, no longer than 5000 words. Photography: Submit 1-3 photographs, black and white only. Unclassifiable: No longer than 2000 words.

3   You are welcome to submit more than once, but each submission must be a separate file uploaded to Submittable.

4   Do not put your name or any other identifying information on the document that holds your submission. Do not include your name in the file name for your submission. We follow a “blind” reading system: our editors read all submissions without knowing who wrote them.

5   Use Times New Roman 12 pt. for the text of your submission. Single-space your poems; double space between stanzas. Double-space prose manuscripts.

6   Include a 60-word bio written in third person, providing specific information about your writing life and your previous publishing credits.

7   No previously published work — print or online — including work posted on personal websites or social network websites. If your work can be found searching Google, we consider it published.

8   If you have questions, please visit our website, conclavejournal.com, or email wbernhardt@conclave.com.

Conclave’s Website: conclavejournal.com

 

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Sometimes the Prompt Is Triumphant

Daily Prompt
 
“Perfect Love casts out fear.”~John 4:18
 
Make art about the triumph of Love.
 
perfect love

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Sometimes the Prompt Takes You Places

Daily Prompt

Dreamt I could fly. Just empty myself out, lift off, and soar.

Make art about flying.

i can fly

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Sometimes You Give the Prompt Away

Daily Prompt
It’s Giving Tuesday
Make art about giving, about an act of charity.
GiveTuesday_700x

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