"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 February, 2016

Monday Must Read! Hilary Rogers King; The Maid’s Car

bio picThis week meet Hilary Rogers King, author of The Maid’s Car. Hilary was born and raised in Virginia, lived in Atlanta for the last twenty years. In Atlanta, Hilary was active as a poet and playwright. She helped found The Atlanta Women’s Poetry Collective and Atlanta Women in Theatre, two groups created for women artists to connect and collaborate. Hilary’s poems have appeared in Blue Fifth Review, The Cortland Review, PANK, Gertrude,Vinyl Poetry and other fine publications. Hilary is also an accomplished playwright. In December 2015, Hilary moved with her family to the Bay Area of California for her husband’s job. She looks forward to discovering the poetry scene in Silicon Valley, or creating one.

Buy Hilary’s Book!

Her first book of poetry, The Maid’s Car was released last summer by Aldrich Press.

http://www.amazon.com/Maids-Car-Hilary-King/dp/0692498397/ref=sr_1_1

Visit Hilary’s website!

http://hilarykingwriter.com/

Hilary also blogs about podcasts at

www.hilaryhearssomething.com

Read more from Hilary online!

http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/53/king.php

http://vinylpoetry.com/volume-3/page-35/

https://postcardpoemsandprose.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/third-snow-atlanta-georgia-2011-by-hilary-king/

http://www.gravelmag.com/hilary-king.html

Interview at Pank

http://pankmagazine.com/2011/04/26/ask-the-author-hilary-king/

Happy reading, y’all!

xo

Mary

 

 

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Sometimes The Prompt Dares You Like a Big Dog

Daily Prompt
 
All mornin I keep hearing my teacher and friend Liam Rector 🙂 I called him Big Dog 🙂 say “What’s the next thing, girl?”
 
Make art about the next thing.
liam

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Friday Call For Submissions Love! Tallow Eider Quarterly

Tallow Eider Quarterly Seeks Submissions

Submissions accepted year-round.

 

“Tallow Eider Quarterly seeks to publish engaging work from emerging and established writers worldwide and remains open to submissions year-round. We accept poetry, flash fiction, essays, creative nonfiction, reviews, and artwork. We have a penchant for the strange, surreal, and experimental. We accept simultaneous submissions, but please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere. All rights to published material are reverted back to the artist or writer upon publication. There is no fee to submit. ”

tequarterly.com/submissions/

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Sometimes The Prompt Is The Cure

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“The only cure I know is a good ceremony”~Leslie Marmon SIlko

Make art about ceremony.

hands candle

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NEW WORKSHOP OFFERING! Prompts, Prompts, and More Prompts!

NEW WORKSHOP OFFERING! 

Get-Your-Write-On Promptathon!

Join me!

June 3-5, 2016
at the beautiful historic writers retreat The Porches, in Norwood VA

5 Sessions of Diverse and Intriguing Prompts
designed to inspire, incite, and ignite your creativity!

Come write with us! Let’s make some beautiful work together!

4 Spaces available–Reserve your spot now!

 

unleash_creativity

 

This workshop will be a fun and generative weekend of inspiration focused on generating new writing in a supportive and easy environment. The weekend is open to writers of all genres – poetry, fiction, nonfiction– even to those who think they’re not writers! As a group, we’ll go through five different sessions of prompts and exercises designed to ignite creativity, inspire new ideas or reinvigorate old ones, maybe even giving ourselves the push to finish something we are currently working on!

After writing, participants will have the option to share what’s created for gentle feedback, if desired. Perfect for those who want some inspiration, and to write to generate and gather new material!

Join us for a weekend of freewheeling creativity and encouragement! And I cook for you!

$275 – includes described three-day workshop, take-away prompt materials, one shared evening meal prepared by instructor, light breakfast fare Saturday and Sunday mornings, and the beautiful relaxing accommodations at The Porches.

Message me on Facebook, or email carrollhackettma@gmail.com

Pass this on, please, to any you think might be interested! Thanks!

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Sometimes The Prompt Comes With Pillows

Daily Prompt
 
Guess I needed rest 😀 Make art about oversleeping.
 
snoopy oversleep

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Where To Submit Feb-March from Entropy Mag

Great list of open calls from Entropy Magazine! 

http://entropymag.org/where-to-submit-february-march-2/

 

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Sometimes the Prompt Makes You Grope and Stumble

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(Or what happens when I watch X-Files in the mornin LOL)
 
“Inside the mystery…It was better to just grope around with careful claws and paws”~Michael Benedikt
 
Make art about moving through mystery.
ghost hand

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Sometimes The Prompt Takes a Little Faith

Daily Prompt
Been workin a lot on feeling worthy, puttin myself out there, makin myself do things that just a year a go I wouldn’t have done.
 
Make art about having faith in yourself.believe-in-yourself-a-little-more

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Monday Must Read! Carla Panciera: One of the Cimalores

 

Carla Panciera headshotThis week meet Carla Panciera, author of two collections of poetry: One of the Cimalores (Cider Press) and No Day, No Dusk, No Love (Bordighera). Her collection of short stories, Bewildered, received AWP’s 2013 Grace Paley Short Fiction Award and is available from the University of Massachusetts Press. Her work has appeared in several journals including The New England Review, Nimrod, The Chattahoochee Review, Painted Bride, and Carolina Quarterly. 

A high school English teacher, Carla lives in Rowley, MA, with her husband and three daughters.

Buy Carla’s Books!

Bewildered:

http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/bewildered

or http://www.amazon.com/Bewildered-Stories-Grace-Paley-Fiction/dp/1625341334/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452528946&sr=1-2&keywords=one+of+the+cimalores

No Day, No Dusk, No Love:

http://www.amazon.com/Dusk-Love-Bordighera-Poetry-Prize/dp/159954024X

One of the Cimalores:

http://www.amazon.com/One-Cimalores-Carla-Panciera/dp/1930781008/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452528946&sr=1-1&keywords=one+of+the+cimalores

Read Carla’s Work Online

Poetry:

http://euphonyjournal.org/2015/02/27/poetry-memoir-by-carla-panciera/

http://pbq.drexel.edu/carla-panciera-the-memory-i-would-have-chosen/

http://www.masspoetry.org/poemofthemoment5/ (scroll down the page)

http://bryantliteraryreview.org/index.php?page=selected-poems (scroll down the page)

Fiction: 

http://www.nereview.com/2013/03/20/all-of-a-sudden/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carla-panciera/featured-fifty-fiction-it-cant-be-this-way-everywhere_b_3362348.html

Follow Carla’s Blog!

http://carlapanciera.com/

 

Happy reading!

xo

Mary

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