Daily Prompt Love <3 What Emerges
6 February 2018
Thinking a lot today about how the new emerges from the old.
Go back to an old piece of writing, and use the last line of that as the first line of something new.
Archive for February, 2018
Guest Blog at Streetlight Mag
Grateful to the good folks at Streetlight Magazine for the invitation to guest blog ❤
Thinking on Art & Activism. Check it out Here
Daily Prompt Catch-Up! 3 New Prompts!
3 February 2018
Make art about visiting family.
4 February 2018
Make art about driving in the rain.
5 February 2018
Sometimes, limitations can inspire and surprise.
Write a poem limited to six lines, or a story of no more than six sentences.
Friday Call for Submissions Love
Nebo: A Literary Journal
“Calling all poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, graphic novelists, and visual artists!
Please consider submittingyour work to Nebo: A Literary Journal, Arkansas Tech University’s literary journal. Nebo has been publishing quality work for 45 years and has published writers from all over the world.
Nebo accepts submissions year round. We’re interested in all kinds of creative work—fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama, comics, art, etc.
Send your submissions as an attachment to neboATatuDOTedu.
Please include a brief, 3rd person author bio of no more than 100 words.
Simultaneous submissions and multiple submissions are fine. Please let us know if your work gets accepted for publication elsewhere.
We are also happy to consider reprints from print journals. Please let us know where the piece was published previously.
Submissions should include no more than 5,000 words of prose, five poems, or 20 pages of comics.”
Daily Prompt Love <3 Home as Inhabitation
2 February 2018
“Home is how we inhabit the world.”-Louisa Thomsen Brits
Make art inspired by this quote.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Ancestral Traditions
1 February 2018
“Celebrating Imbolc, the day of the Celtic goddess Brigid that marks the beginning of spring.
Imbolc, also known as the Feast of Brigid, celebrates the arrival of longer, warmer days and the early signs of spring on February 1.
It is one of the four major “fire” festivals (quarter days, referred to in Irish mythology from medieval Irish texts. The other three festivals on the old Irish calendar are Beltane, Lughnasadh, and Samhain – Halloween).
The word Imbolc means literally “in the belly” in the old Irish Neolithic language, referring to the pregnancy of ewes.
St. Brigid is the patron saint of babies, blacksmiths, boatmen, cattle farmers, children whose parents are not married, children whose mothers are mistreated by the children’s fathers, Clan Douglas, dairymaids, dairy workers, fugitives, Ireland, Leinster, mariners, midwives, milkmaids, nuns, poets, the poor, poultry farmers, poultry raisers, printing presses, sailors, scholars, travelers, and watermen. Here’s a busy saint!
One folk tradition that continues in some homes on St. Brigid’s Day (or Imbolc) is that of the Brigid’s Bed. The girls and young unmarried women of the household or village create a corn dolly to represent Brigid, called the Brideog (“little Brigid” or “young Brigid”), adorning it with ribbons and baubles like shells or stones. They make a bed for the Brideog to lie in…..” (from Irish Central)
Read more traditional ways of celebrating Imbolc, St. Brigid’s Day, here
Make art about ancestral traditions.
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