Daily Prompt Love <3 What's Missing
27 March 2017
Find a photo, and make art about what’s not in the picture, what’s missing.
Archive for the ‘Bless the Day’ Category
Monday Must Read! The Legend of Jesse Smoke, Robert Bausch
The Legend of Jesse Smoke is the latest novel from one of my favorite people, Robert Bausch.
Robert Bausch is the author of multiple novels: On the Way Home; The Lives of Riley Chance; Almighty Me; A Hole in the Earth; The Gypsy Man; Out of Season; In the Fall They Come Back; Far as the Eye Can See; and most recently, The Legend of Jesse Smoke. In 1995, Bausch published a collection of short stories called The White Rooster and Other Stories.
Bobby was born in Georgia, at the end of World War II, and was raised in the Washington, D.C., area. He has worked as a salesman–of automobiles, appliances, and hardware–a taxi driver, waiter, production planner, and library assistant. He was educated at George Mason University, earning a BA, an MA and an MFA, and he says he has been a writer all his life. He spent time in the military teaching survival, and worked his way through college. Since 1975, Bausch has been a college professor, teaching creative writing, American literature, world literature, humanities, philosophy, and expository writing. He has taught at the University of Virginia, American University, George Mason University, and Johns Hopkins University. For the balance of his career he has been teaching at Northern Virginia Community College. He has also been a director on the board of the Pen-Faulkner Foundation. In 2009 he was awarded the John Dos Passos Prize in Literature.
About The Legend of Jesse Smoke
What would happen if a young athlete came along who could throw a football as well as John Elway or Peyton Manning? What if this person was as strong, quick, and resourceful as any of the great quarterbacks? And what if this person was a woman?
When Skip Granger, the assistant coach for the Washington Redskins, first sees Jesse Smoke, she is on the beach in Belize. And she has just thrown a regulation football a mile.
Granger knows that Smoke’s talent is unprecedented for a woman, and nearly unparalleled among men. As Granger observes her throughout a season as quarterback for the Washington Divas of the Independent Women’s Football League, he decides to sign her to the Redskins, even as he faces losing his job and credibility. As the first woman on a major NFL team, Jesse Smoke’s astounding success places her in the tradition of athletes like Jackie Robinson and Joe Louis. Yet Smoke is quickly faced with her own battles, including the clamors of the press, the violence of her teammates, and the institutional resistance that seeks to keep football in the hands of men.
While a female quarterback in the NFL is a fantasy at the moment, Robert Bausch’s genius as a writer makes it a highly engaging reality on the page. Fans of football–and readers who were just waiting for a player worth getting excited about–will relish Jesse Smoke’s journey to the big leagues.
Buy Bobby’s Wonderful Books!
The White Rooster & Other Stories
More from Bobby Online: Readings & Interviews
http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/media_player?mets_filename=evm00000463mets.xml#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sbrfgT8Xoo
http://www.northernvirginiamag.com/buzz-bin/2014/11/11/robert-bausch/
http://renaissancesofreading.blogspot.com/2012/06/q-author-robert-bausch-1.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwyF-H922OM
https://spaceslitmag.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/writers-reading-bausch/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNSg3nzyvMw
Happy Reading, Y’all!
xo
Mary
Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Two Calls: Sundress Seeking Hybrids, and Panoply Seeking 'Daylight'
Manticore: Hybrid Writing from Hybrid Identities
Editor: Nicole Oquendo
Publisher: Sundress Publications
Deadline: May 15, 2017
This anthology aims to feature the strange and wonderful intersection between work by writers and artists of hybrid identities and the hybrid work they produce. We are especially interested in work from writers and artists of color, trans, queer, neurodivergent, or disabled writers and artists, writers and artists with invisible illnesses, and anyone else who feels their identity is itself an intersection. In short, if you believe your identity is a hybrid form that influences your craft, we want to hear from you.
Since this anthology will be available exclusively online for free, contributors to this anthology cannot be paid at this time. However, submissions to this anthology are free.
Submissions are due to anthologyATsundresspublicationsDOTcom by 11:59 EST on May 15th, 2017.
Submission Guidelines
This anthology seeks hybrid or otherwise experimental prose, poetry, and other forms from writers that identify as having a hybrid identity. Shorter work is preferred unless the hybrid nature of a piece demands a higher word or page count. Submit up to one submission batch per genre.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but let us know immediately if your work has been accepted elsewhere. While disclosure is not required, we’d also love to know more about your hybrid identity in your cover letter, including how you feel your hybrid identity influences your craft.
Fiction
Send one (1) story of up to 5,000 words, or up to three (<3) flash stories, attached in a .doc, .docx, or .pdf file. The email subject line should read FICTION – Your Full Name – Title of Work.
Nonfiction
Send one (1) essay of up to 5,000 words, or up to three (<3) flash essays, attached in a .doc, .docx, or .pdf file. The email subject line should read NONFICTION – Your Full Name – Title of Work.
Poetry
Send up to five (<5) poems attached in a single .doc, .docx, or .pdf file. The email subject line should read POETRY – Your Full Name – Title of Work.
Multimodal/Hybrid
If your submission is multimodal/hybrid (possibilities include images along with text, including but not limited to comics and photo essays, work with sound components, or blends of multiple genres), send one (1) piece of up to 5,000 words, or up to three (<3) flash pieces, attached in a .doc, .docx, or .pdf file. The email subject line should read HYBRID – Your Full Name – Title of Work.
If your attachment may be too large to be handled via email, contact us and let us know.
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Panoply
Issue 6: Theme: Daylight
Deadline: April 2, 2017
Please limit your submissions to subjects related to the theme, “daylight.” The Call is open until Sunday night April 2, 2017 at 11:59 pm Central (US) time.
- Up to 3 pieces
- Flash fiction or prose of no more than 500 words, and/or poetry
- We read blind. Do not put your name or other identifiers on any of the pieces
- Please include a bio of <= 60 words in the box provided by Submittable
- We publish only one piece per contributor per issue
Approximate publication date, to be confirmed, is May 5.
Panoply accepts submissions through Submittable. For more guidelines and to submit, please visit: Panoply’s Submittable Page
Daily Prompt Love <3 In Which Direction
24 March 2017
Many cultures hold sacred meaning for each of the cardinal directions.
Make art about a compass. Or about choosing a direction.
Daily Prompt Love <3 In the Middle of the Night
23 March 2017
Make art about what you see in the middle of the night.
A Lil MidWeek Call for Submissions Love <3 FIVE:2:ONE
FIVE:2:ONE: An Art and Literary Journal
publishes quarterly print issues of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reviews, art and interviews. They also publish an online daily journal #thesideshow. They accept submissions year round.
“FIVE: 2:ONE accepts submissions year round and puts out print issues quarterly in February, May, August and November. We also produce a daily online journal #thesideshow. We only take submissions via Submittable.
“We are mostly looking for the experimental, transgressive, progressive, surreal, bizarre and the downright weird.”
Website: http://five2onemagazine.com/
Guidelines: http://five2onemagazine.com/submission-guidelines/
Daily Prompt Love x 2 <3 Subversive and Fearless
21 March 2017
Make art about Love as subversive.
22 March 2017
Make art about fearlessness.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Again I Dreamt
20 March 2017
A recurring dream plays a significant role in the novel I just started.
Make art about what you dream again and again.
Monday Must Read! Sarah Einstein- Mot: A Memoir
Sarah Einstein is the author of Mot: A Memoir (University of Georgia Press 2015), Remnants of Passion (Shebooks 2014), and numerous essays and short stories. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Best of the Net, and the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction. She is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
At forty, Sarah Einstein is forced to face her own shortcomings. In the wake of an attempted sexual assault, she must come to terms with the facts that she is not tough enough for her job managing a local drop-in center for adults with mental illness and that her new marriage is already faltering. Just as she reaches her breaking point, she meets Mot, a homeless veteran who lives a life dictated by frightening delusion. She is drawn to the brilliant ways he has found to lead his own difficult life; traveling to Romania to get his teeth fixed because the United States doesn’t offer dental care to the indigent, teaching himself to use computers in public libraries, and even taking university classes while living out of doors.
Mot: A Memoir is the story of their unlikely friendship and explores what we can, and cannot, do for a person we love. In unsparing prose and with a sharp eye for detail, Einstein brings the reader into the world of Mot’s delusions and illuminates a life that would otherwise be hidden from us.
Sarah’s Website: http://www.saraheinstein.com/
Buy Sarah’s Books!
Read More from Sarah Online
Interviews
http://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/07/interview-sarah-einstein-author-of-mot-a-memoir/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs-z8UTK1BI
Hear Sarah Read at WVWC MFA Summer Residency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21OkuLmc5c0
Happy Reading, y’all!
xo
Mary
Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Last Words and Labyrinths
18 March 2017
Ten people I love have walked on to the next life since 2007.
Make art about the last time you saw someone, the last conversation, the last words you said.
19 March 2017
Dreamt a maze made of light last night.
Make art about a labyrinth, real or metaphorical.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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