Daily Prompt Love <3 Shhh…Don't Tell
24 June 2017
Make art about keeping a secret.
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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 J Journal, Seeking Justice Everywhere
J Journal: New Writing on Justice – Fall 2017 Issue
Submissions accepted year-round.
J Journal: New Writing on Justice, the John Jay College (CUNY) award-winning litmag, seeks submissions for its Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 issues. Your work should examine justice from any angle, but no straight genre pieces. We prefer the tangential approach to the journal’s theme–the justice question is everywhere.
Send fiction and personal narrative (6000 words max) and poetry (up to three poems) to submissionsjjournal@gmail.com. See jjournal.org for excerpts and more about what we publish. J Journal is a twice-yearly print journal (Fall 2017 is our twentieth issue) with an active online presence.
Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Darkness, Illness, Body
21 June 2017
Make art about finding your way through the dark.
22 June 2017
Make art about illness.
23 June 2017
Make art about what the body remembers.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Caught
20 June 2017
Make art about getting caught in a storm, literal or metaphorical.
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.
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.
19 June 2017
Make art about peacemakers, about working to heal division.
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.”
Learn the History of Juneteenth Here
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.
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.
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.
15 June 2017
Make art about taking a risk on Love.
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.
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.
13 June 2017
Dreamt someone I love brought me a gift.
Make art about a fistful of stars.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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