"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 June, 2017

Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Saying Thank You, Adult Children, & Peace

17 June 2017

Received several thank you emails from my online students today when our class finished. They never understand, I don’t think, how much I have to thank them for ❤

Create a thank you note (written, visual, musical, etc.) to someone else, someone who doesn’t realize how much gratitude your feel for them.

Thank+you+notes

18 June 2017

My son came home this weekend, to celebrate Father’s Day with me 🙂 He says since I’ve been both mother and father, I get to celebrate both days. My mama always joked, If you can stand them til they’re twenty-two, you’ll get them back as friends. 🙂 I am so grateful for those kids, my three closest friends ❤ 

Make art about children as friends. 

friends

19 June 2017

Make art about peacemakers, about working to heal division.

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Monday Must Read! Juneteenth, Ralph Ellison

How desperately we need Ellison’s wisdom now.

Juneteenth is Ralph Ellison‘s second novel, published posthumously in 1999 as a 368-page condensation of over 2000 pages written by him over a period of forty years. It was originally written without any real organization, and Ellison’s longtime friend, biographer and critic John F. Callahan put the novel together, editing it in the way he thought Ellison would want it to be written.

“Ellison’s literary executor, John Callahan, has now quarried a smaller, more coherent work from all that raw material. Gone are the epic proportions that Ellison so clearly envisioned. Instead, Juneteenth revolves around just two characters: Adam Sunraider, a white, race-baiting New England senator, and Alonzo “Daddy” Hickman, a black Baptist minister who turns out to have a paradoxical (and paternal) relationship to his opposite number. As the book opens, Sunraider is delivering a typically bigoted peroration on the Senate floor when he’s peppered by an assassin’s bullets. Mortally wounded, he summons the elderly Hickman to his bedside. There the two commence a journey into their shared past, which (unlike the rest of 1950s America) represents a true model of racial integration.”

Buy Juneteenth: A Novel

Learn the History of Juneteenth Here

Juneteenth

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Thanks and Love to the Talented and Generous Teri Lee Kline

16 June 2017

Make art inspired by a song that made you cry, that brought you to real tears. 

 

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Some Call for Submissions Love <3 Elsewhere: Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry,

elsewhere is an online magazine that publishes every two months, publishing prose poetry, flash fiction and non-fiction.

From the elsewhere website: 

elsewhere cares only about the line / no line. We want short prose works (flash fiction, prose poetry, nonfiction) that cross, blur, and/or mutilate genre. We publish six writers and one photo quarterly. Give us your homeless, your animals, your lunch money: we’re hungry.

Prose Poetry

up to 3 pieces of unlineated prose poetry, any length. up to two essays in a single document, each less than 1,000 words.

Flash Fiction

up to two stories in a single document, each less than 1,000 words.

Nonfiction

up to two essays in a single document, each less than 1,000 words.

Photography

submit up to 3 photographs for consideration as a cover image in JPG or PNG format. landscape orientation required, original size 3000px x 1700px minimum.

 

Website

Submit Here

 

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 All About Some Love and Joy–Gotta Be, In These Dark Days

14 June 2017

Make art about ways of finding (re-finding) your joy.

find your joy

 

15 June 2017

Make art about taking a risk on Love. 

risk to love

 

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Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Carnivals, Weeds, and a Fistful of Stars

10 June 2017

Accompanied my daughter and son-in-law today for that GrandPerson’s first trip to a fair.

Make art inspired by a fair, or carnival.

Max Merry Go Round 2

11 June 2017

Traveling on back roads today, my favorite way to get anywhere.

Make art about back roads, country lanes, two-lane blacktops cutting through nothing but countryside.

12 June 2017

Grading and gardening day.

Make art about pulling weeds, about weeding things out.

pulling weeds

13 June 2017

Dreamt someone I love brought me a gift.

Make art about a fistful of stars.

hand filled with light

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Friday Call for Submissions Love x 2: Pithead Chapel

Pithead Chapel

Call for Submissions: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Prose Poetry

“Pithead Chapel is a monthly online journal of fiction,
nonfiction, and prose poetry. While many magazines and journals close
during the spring and summer, we’re open year-round.”

Visit www.pitheadchapel.com for detailed submission guidelines.

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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Blink Ink, 50 Word Stories on Outlaws

Blink-Ink Submissions Now Open

Deadline: July 10, 2017

 

Bob Dylan famously said “To live outside the law you must be honest. I know you always said that you agree.” Do you agree? What else do you know or suspect about outlaws? Outlaws being those who by choice or chance live outside the law.The law of the land or laws unspoken. Tell us what you know about outlaws generally, or about specific outlaws, real or imagine. famous or obscure.

Send stories of approximately 50 words in the body of an email to blinkinkinfo@gmail.com No attachments or bios please.

Submissions open June 1st till July 10th, 2017.

Website: www.blink-ink.org

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Together We Can

9 June 2017

I’m so excited! Going to be entering into a new creative collaboration with a dear friend. 

Make art about working with others, about the benefits of collaboration. 

collaboration

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Daily Prompt Love <3 To Bear Witness

8 June 2017

bear witness

  1.  to show that something exists or is true —+ to His success bears witness to the value of hard work. Rising ticket sales bear witness to the band’s popularity.

  2. formal :  to make a statement saying that one saw or knows something asked to bear witness to the facts She was asked to bear witness at the trial.

Make art about what it means to bear witness. 

Testify

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