"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 ‘Bless the Day’ Category

Looking for Inspiration? Hundreds of Prompts!

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Writing Prompts

Sometimes the Prompt Is a Slow Thaw

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“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

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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

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

Sometimes the Prompt Reminds Us Who We Really Are

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Make art about justice.

Or interconnectedness.

Thank you, Dr. King.

MLK justice

Sometimes the Prompt Makes It All Come Clear

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“Snow falling soundlessly will always fill my heart with sweet clarity” ~Novala Takemoto

Make art about the musings brought on by falling snow.

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Sometimes the Prompt Is Born of Sadness

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“Call it a night. O soul. Flow on. Instead.”~CD Wright
 
Make art about the eternal flow.
cosmic flow

Sometimes You Let the Prompt Go

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Letting em go 🙂
 
Make art about releasing expectations.
 
expectation

Daily Prompt Catch Up! Get That Creativity On!

Away for a weekend manuscript consultation, so now we’re back to prompting! 🙂 

1/9/2016

Snuggled up in the comfort of the beautiful Porches Writers Retreat. Make art about making a retreat.

1/10/2016

After days of winter rain, the clouds have gone, revealing blue blue sky. Make art about clearing skies.

1/11/2016

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.” G.K. Chesterton Make art inspired by a thrift store find.

 

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