27 February 2018
Make art about telling or hearing from someone these so-important words.
28 February 2018
Yesterday I had a talk with my students, one I have with all of my classes at some point in the semester, a reminder that it’s okay to ask for help.
Make art about asking for help.
26 February 2018
Make art about what the trees know, abut the wisdom of trees.
The Disappointed Housewife
a new literary journal for writers, and readers, seeking something different.
Their Call:
“We like the idiosyncratic, the iconoclastic, the offbeat, the hard-to-categorize. Out of the universe of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, we want to attract work that plays with form and presentation. Work that’s not just outside the box but turns the box inside out.
We believe that imagination and the creative drive can guide literature toward a new stage in its evolution — a growth spurt. Multi-media, mash-ups, music, photography-as-writing: anything is possible.
As we like to say around here: Don’t disappoint the disappointed housewife.
Read our submission guidelines and send us your work if you think it will fit here. We’re listening.”
24 February 2018
Make art about what’s right there in the palm of your hand.
25 February 2018
Make art about peeling back the layers.
K’in wants to read your beautiful work!
Submission Details
Prose: 5000 words or less, open to content, form, structure.
Fiction: We welcome short stories of all shapes and sizes, from the mind-blowing traditional story to fiction that blurs the lines between forms, genre fiction, experimental fiction, etc. We also welcome flash and micro fiction.
Nonfiction: We’re looking for slow burns in a world of hot takes, questions asked instead of answers proved. We welcome a wide variety of nonfiction—traditional essay, narrative nonfiction, micro/flash memoir—and encourage experimentation, though not at the expense of factual truth. Too many true stories go untold, and we want to offer space to honor those voices.
Poetry: 3-5 poems, open to content, form, structure. Please don’t forget the power voice, sound, and time can have in poetry.
For all submissions, simultaneous submissions are permitted, but please let us know. To withdraw one part of a submission, please add a note in Submittable so that the information is instantly available to all editors. We will not process emailed withdrawal requests.
Experimental, traditional, playful, prayerful, celebratory, challenging: human—try us. Show us a new way to tell one of the millions of stories under that glorious sun.
12 February 2018
The world today desperately needs tenderness. Make art about acts of tenderness, tender hands.
13 February 2018
Make art about losing time.
14 February 2018
Make art about feeling fragmented.
15 February 2018
Make art about the weight of grieving.
16 February 2018
Make art about righteous anger.
17 February 2018
Make art about what shines.
18 February 2018
Make art about the betrayal of children, betraying a child’s trust.
19 February 2018
Make art about what patriotism means to you.
20 February 2018
Make art about who watches over you.
21 February 2018
Make art about working toward the answer.
22 February 2018
Make art about the revolution.
23 February 2018
“And a little child shall lead them.”- Isaiah 11:6 Make art inspired by this.
Call for Submissions: FAWLT MAGAZINE
DEADLINE: For Dependence: March 15, 2018.
For all other faults: rolling submissions.
FAWLT magazine is an online, quarterly journal seeking short stories, poems, essays, photographs, and animated works that deal with human flaws.
Each issue of the magazine will focus on a single, undesirable characteristic, exploring such issues as: who is affected by it, the impact on individuals, in which circumstances it can be especially bad (or actually good), and any other aspect of the flaw that that may be worth investigating.
Their call:
We seek previously unpublished prose, poetry, and art that incorporate these characteristics in funny or sobering ways. Ultimately Fawlt hopes to offer an entertaining look at human frailty and a serious consideration of some of our more unpleasant traits. Please do not send more than three prose pieces or
five poems at a time.
Now actively taking submissions for their next issue: DEPENDENCE
We’re also considering submissions for other faults including:
~ PERFECTIONISM ~ APATHY ~ ARROGANCE ~
However, as we are planning to release those issues in later quarters, our response to submissions in those categories might be slightly long in coming
While we have no problem with simultaneous submissions, please notify us immediately if your submitted work is published elsewhere
Guidelines:
EMAIL: Please send submissions to fiction(at)fawltmag.com (replace (at) with @)poetry(at)fawltmag, or artandphoto(at)fawltmag, depending on your category (replace (at) with @). Please indicate, in the subject line, which flaw your work addresses.
ATTACH: A cover letter.
IMAGES: May be sent via email as JPEG or TIF files.
PAYMENT: While we’re working on acquiring the funds necessary to pay our contributors, as of now, we can’t offer any formal payment.
10 February 2018
“Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve…You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”―Martin Luther King Jr.
Make art about loving hearts that serve.
11 February 2018
“Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home.”-Jenn Granneman
Make art about being an introvert, about “visiting the world of people,” or about needing time in that inner world.
8 February 2018
I tell my students that writers don’t write because they have answers; they write because they have questions.
Make a list of your questions, what you wish you could ask other people, friends, family, what you want to ask the world. If you could spray paint a single question on a public wall in ten foot tall letters, what would that question be?
Make art inspired by or composed of your questions.
9 February 2018
Self talk can be a major force for healing.
Make art about having that much needed conversation with yourself, that self-dialogue you’ve put off for too long.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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