Daily Prompt Love <3 Mapping It All Out
4 November 2016
I love my GPS, but I also love my old school Atlas Map. Make art about maps, mapping, or going off the map.
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Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Finally! 24 New Creativity-Inspiring Prompts!
And hopefully I’m back on track with these 🙂 ❤ Love y’all!
10/10/2016
Make art about buried treasure.
10/11/2016
Make art about working toward a goal.
10/12/2016
Make art about the sound of walking.
10/13/2016
Make art about frailty.
10/14/2016
Make art about a youngest child, that last child.
10/15/2016
Make art about what’s revealed in the moonlight.
10/16/2016
Make art about birds on a wire.
10/17/2016
Make art about going back in time.
10/18/2016
Make art about leaving an inheritance, or receiving one, on what’s inherited.
10/19/2016
My mama used to quote the Bible, saying, “Never a prophet in your own land.” Make art inspired by this quote.
10/20/2016
Make art about transitions.
10/21/2016
I really want to take a ceramics class. Make art about what you want to learn.
10/22/2016
Make art about excavation, literal or metaphorical.
10/23/2016
Canning apples for days. Make art about the fruits of autumn.
10/24/2016
Make art about every day angel encounters.
10/25/2016
Make art about the sacredness of water.
10/26/2016
Make art about making a trip home.
10/27/2016
Make art about what kind of road your heart would be.
10/28/2016
“When born, you inherit what’s burning.”~Liam Rector Make art inspired by this quote.
10/29/2016
Make art about night driving.
10/30/2016
A friend came across an old painting that looks just like me. Make art about doppelgangers.
10/31/2016
I set out food for the ancestors, cornmeal and milk for the wee folk, lit a fire and watched it burn. Make art about ancient traditions.
11/1/2016
Sometimes the sorrow is so deep, all I know to do is cook. Make art about process sorrow in an unexpected way.
11/2/2016
Make art consoling, receiving, or giving, consolation.
11/3/2016
Make art about feeling paralyzed.
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Back to the daily daily tomorrow!
Monday Must Read! Gabrielle Brant Freeman, When She Was Bad
And we’re back—with the amazing Gabrielle Brant Freeman, author of the stunning debut collection When She Was Bad. Gabrielle’s poetry has been published in many journals, most recently in Barrelhouse, Hobart, Melancholy Hyperbole, Rappahannock Review, storySouth, and Waxwing. She was nominated twice for the Best of the Net, and she was a 2014 finalist. Gabrielle won the 2015 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition. Press 53 published her first book, When She Was Bad, in 2016. Gabrielle earned her MFA through Converse College.
Visit Gabrielle’s Website
http://gabriellebrantfreeman.squarespace.com/
Buy Gabrielle’s Beautiful Book! At Press 53!
http://www.press53.com/Gabrielle_Brant_Freeman.html
Praise for When She Was Bad
Lust. Love. Betrayal and loyalty. Temptation and hilarity. Gabrielle Freeman dissects her speakers’ hearts, tenderly, with supreme attention to what it is to be human, female, and fierce. Gabrielle Freeman’s poems are bad–by which I mean badass bold. Michael Jackson bad. Freeman’s bad and you know it. That’s why you read her. When She Was Bad is a smart, compassionate, tightly crafted and explosive debut. — Denise Duhamel
Read More from Gabby Online
http://gabriellebrantfreeman.squarespace.com/poems-1/
http://ciderpressreview.com/tag/gabrielle-freeman/#.WBc8rdUrKM8
http://www.chagrinriverreview.com/gabrielle-freeman.html
Hear Gabby Read!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnC84HvJl94
You don’t want to miss this poet!
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Aji Mag and Music
Aji Magazine Call for Submissions for Spring 2017
Deadline: After first 500 submissions are received.
While Aji publishes poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, graphic art, and photographs on all subjects in every issue, the theme for our spring 2017 issue is music, the tempo of a city street, the dissonance of a conversation—what are the melodies, the harmonies, and the rhythms of your life? Send us work on music of all types, classical, jazz, experimental, pop, and of course the thundering and whispering of storms, the jangling of traffic, the noise in your head that won’t let you sleep. We’re a small staff—we will close submissions after the first 500 submissions. www.ajimagazine.com
Reading at Longwood this week!
Okay my Virginia lovelies!
I’m thrilled to be part of the Longwood Authors’ Reading Series, this coming Wednesday!
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 8pm
Wygal Auditorium on Longwood’s campus
Reception (Free food!) to follow.
I’ll be reading from my newest book, A Little Blood, A Little Rain, as well as The Night I Heard Everything, both from FutureCycle Press.
And maybe…. we’ll have a lil contest and give away a couple free copies of the new book! 😉
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Daily Prompt Love <3 Reconnecting through Common Ground
10/9/2016
Make art about connections made through food, connections in the present, or to the past.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Dreaming of Pirates
10/8/2016
Been helping my son put together his costume for the Renaissance Faire. He’s reaching back to his roots in the coastal lowlands of eastern North Carolina, and going as a pirate this year, appropriate since he lived the earliest years of his life only twenty miles from where the infamous Edward Teach–Blackbeard–made his home in Bath, NC. In fact, archaeologists from my alma mater, East Carolina University, worked in conjunction with the NC Department of Cultural Resources, to raise Balckbard’s ship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge, from those wild waters on my beloved Outer Banks. (ECU’s mascot is a Pirate 🙂 I am purple and gold forever! 🙂 )
All this work on his costume, plus, I think, the current political situation, probably led to the dream I had last night where I was pouring beer for ruffians in some steampunk version of an 18th century tavern.
Make art about pirates. Or inspired by the word ‘pirate.’
Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Double Call from Hofstra
Hofstra University Has Two Forums for Your Literary Work
Submissions accepted year-round.
Submissions for AMP: Always Electric (a digital literary site) are accepted in poetry, short prose, innovative and cross-genre texts, video poems and literary videos. AMP is a project of the Hofstra University Digital Research Center and is co-sponsored by the MFA program and the Department of English. amp.hofstradrc.org
Windmill: The Hofstra Journal of Literature & Art accepts both print and digital submissions including fiction, creative nonfiction, art and photography, and poetry. Our inaugural issue will be published in January 2017. Windmill is a joint project of Hofstra University’s MFA in Creative Writing and BA in English/Publishing Studies. hofstrawindmill.com
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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