"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 the ‘Artists’ Category

Sometimes the Prompt Yips and Howls

Daily Prompt
 
Pups and I heard the coyotes singin when we were out this morning.
 
Make art about coyotes.
 
coyote

Sometimes the Prompt Is Feminine and Divine

Daily Prompt
 
Today’s gift has been conversation with my daughter, and missing my mama ❤
 
Make art about generations of women.
generations of women

Sometimes The Prompt Lights You Up

Daily Prompt

Dreamt someone I love built a fire in a snowbank.

Make art about warmth, or about love bringing warmth.

fire in snow

Special Sunny Sunday Call For Submissions

Even though it’s Sunday, they’re accepting submissions at Blue Monday 🙂 

http://www.bluemondayreview.com/

Submission Guidelines

http://www.bluemondayreview.com/#!submit-your-work/c1ijy

And they pay!

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Sometimes the Prompt Is a Slow Thaw

Daily Prompt
 
“Left to itself the heart could almost melt, could mend.”~JIll Osier
 
Make art about what’s revealed in the melting.
 
melt

Sometimes The Prompt Is A Thing With Feathers

Daily Prompt

Little Juncos, as if they’re floating, on top of the snow.

Make art about balancing on the surface.

Special Blizzard Call For Submissions

Seems appropriate 🙂 

Storm Cellar

Deadline: Rolling

 

“Storm Cellar, a print-and-ebook journal of new writing and art, seeks submissions for issue 5.2. We’re looking for aesthetic ambition and risk, formally, emotionally, amazingly. We encourage especially: under-represented voices, people of color, women, and Midwesterners. Send us your space capsules, jungles, double-crosses, and secret crushes.”

Full guidelines at stormcellarquarterly.com/submit; submission manager atstormcellar.submittable.com.

Sometimes You Can Smell the Prompt Coming

Daily Prompt
 
Make art about the scent of weather, the smell of snow coming.
 
smells like snow

Sometimes the Prompt Is Sold Out

Daily Prompt
 
Pre-winter-storm panic is on where I am.
 
Make art about needing bread and milk.
 
no bread

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