"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

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Heart Work <3 Central Virginia Chapter of Writing for Peace <3 Join Us As We Work Toward a More Peaceful World

So as busy as this fall semester has been, I’ve joined with some amazing people in two projects that pretty much embody two principles dominating my heart:
❤ K’in, the journal I’ve founded, making space for diverse, marginalized, and underrepresented voices, and ❤
❤ A new venture connected to Writing for Peace, an organization that means so much to me. I’ve been collaborating with an outstanding group of people to build on the amazing vision of Carmel Mawle, the work that Andrea Slack Doray, as our president carries on, in the mission of Writing for Peace. in the creation of the Central Virginia Chapter of Writing for Peace ❤
 
We’re still in the building process, but we have a home for the chapter, and we want to invite you to join us, as we work toward promoting empathy and peaceful activism in our communities. Our hope is that writers, and activists, and all kinds of supporters of the arts will come together in other places to form chapters of their own, so that we can work together creating a more peaceful world–for everyone.
 
So excited to be sharing this with y’all! ❤
 
Please visit the inaugural regional chapter of Writing for Peace: 

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Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Family, freedom, Gratitude, Love, One Love, writing for peace

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Daily Prompt Love <3 It's Full, I Swear!

11 December 2017 

“Sometimes, your relentless optimism makes me tired.” 🙂 my brother Bill

Make art about why that glass is half full. 

glass full or empty 

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2017 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, fiction, freedom, Gratitude, healing, Love, Nature, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts, Writing Through the Chakras

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Some People Are Just Good

10 December 2017 

Some people you meet are just GOOD, to the core, the real-by-gawd goodness shimmering from them like light. Mike Hamer, my office mate in my first teaching job at East Carolina University, was one of those people, good, smart, kind, funny, gentle, authentic, loving, decent to the core. 

Rest in Peace, Mike. Travel safely and sweetly. This world will miss you sorely, but I can already hear the heavenly music from here. 

Make art about someone whose goodness emanates, shines, in everything they do. Pay tribute to them while they’re still walking here with us. 

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2017 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Family, fiction, Gratitude, healing, Love, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, Writing, Writing Prompts

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Late Daily Prompt Love :-) Snowstorm in Virginia Delay Edition :-)

9 December 2017

Make art about when the lights went out. 

Candle in the Dark

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2017 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, fiction, Gratitude, Love, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts, Writing Through the Chakras

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Call for Submissions Again :-) Spank the Carp Seeking Submissions

I love this publication. Check it out! 
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS to SPANK the CARP. 

We’re looking for flash fiction, short stories, and poetry, including shape poetry. 
If your work is thought-provoking, sophisticated, yet not pretentious or obscure, we’re interested. 
For submission guidelines and more information visit 

www.spankthecarp.com

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Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Call for Submissions, Creativity, Editing, fiction, Friday Call for Submissions, Gratitude, litmags, Love, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, publishing, Writing

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Times Two :-) What's Coming Home to Roost

7 December 2017

Make art about chickens coming home to roost. 

“As a proverbial expression it’s half a millennium old.

The older fuller form was curses are like chickens; they always come home to roost, meaning that your offensive words or actions are likely at some point to rebound on you. The idea goes back to Chaucer, though he expressed it rather differently in The Parson’s Tale, around 1390, writing that curses are like “a bird that returns again to his own nest”….

Read more about this idiom here.

chicken

8 December 2017

Make art about pushing to finish something in order to meet a deadline. 

deadline

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2017 Prompts, animals, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, fiction, freedom, Gratitude, Love, Nature, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Hear Me Now?

6 December 2017

Make art about the roar, a time you roared, or wanted to roar, but didn’t. Make art about the need to roar, about where you carry that need to roar in the body.  Write the roar. 

roar

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2017 Prompts, animals, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, fiction, freedom, Gratitude, healing, Love, Nature, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Fighting On Behalf of Love <3

5 December 2017

Make art about someone fighting to make the world a better place, an everyday Love Warrior. 

 

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2017 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, fiction, freedom, Gratitude, healing, Love, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts, Writing Through the Chakras

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Daily Prompt Love–Times Four

1 December 2017

Make art about what walked up on to the porch.

Porch

2 December 2017

Make art about finally seeing the path you need to take.

path

3 December 2017

Make art about why she’s afraid of the dark.

afraid of the dark

4 December 2017

Make art about how to say goodbye.

goodbye

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2017 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, fiction, Gratitude, Love, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Calling

30 November 2017

Make art about a call you need to make, or wish you’d made, wish you could make.

call

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2017 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Family, fiction, Gratitude, healing, Love, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, Writing, Writing Prompts

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