"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 August, 2016

Daily Prompt Love <3 Gettin Elemental

 

30 July 2016

Finally got started on my summer canning.

Make art about preserving something.

canning

31 July 2016

“We move to find what we cannot see”~David Wagoner

Make art about forms of blindness.

blindness

 

1 August 2016

Earth. Air. Fire. Water.

Make art about an elemental force.

Fire-earth-water-air-the-four-elements-39436378-741-256

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Monday Must Read! Marie Manilla: The Patron Saint of Ugly

 

marie manillaThis week meet Marie Manilla, author The Patron Saint of Ugly, winner of the Weatherford Award. Her novel Shrapnel received the Fred Bonnie Award for Best First Novel. Still Life with Plums: Short Stories was a finalist for both The Weatherford Award and ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year. Marie is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in The Chicago Tribune, Prairie Schooner, Mississippi Review, Calyx, SouthWrit Large, and other journals. She’s also an incredibly kind and generous person.

 

Visit Marie’s Website Here: http://www.mariemanilla.com/

 

Buy Marie’s Beautiful Books!

The Patron Saint of Ugly

https://www.amazon.com/Patron-Saint-Ugly-Marie-Manilla/dp/0544146247/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470053896&sr=8-1&keywords=patron+saint+of+ugly

 

Still Life With Plums: Short Stories

http://www.wvupressonline.com/manilla_still_life_with_plums_9781933202600

 

Shrapnel

https://www.amazon.com/Shrapnel-Marie-Manilla/dp/1579660843/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470054659&sr=8-1&keywords=shrapnel+marie+manilla

 

More from Marie Online

http://tetheredbyletters.com/fronline-short-story-laser-beam/

http://www.cleavermagazine.com/belle-fleur-by-marie-manilla/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNVI2ki_6KE

http://wvupressonline.com/author_bio/manilla

http://monkeybicycle.net/dragonfly/

http://dev.writersdojo.org/author/mariemanilla/

 

Interviews, Reviews, and Blogs

http://www.mariemanilla.com/interviewsreviewsblogs.htm

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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