Daily Prompt Love <3 Midsummer!
21 June 2019
Happy Litha! Midsummer! Summer Solstice!
Make art about the solstice, about a solstice ritual, about the long light.
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Midweek Call for Submissions Love <3 K'in Seeking Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Young Writers for November Issue
We’re reading now for our November Issue!
Prose: 5000 words or less, open to content, form, structure.
Fiction: We welcome short stories of all shapes and sizes, from the mind-blowing traditional story to fiction that blurs the lines between forms, genre fiction, experimental fiction, etc. We also welcome flash and micro fiction. Please submit only one story or flash fiction totaling to no more than the word limit at a time.
Nonfiction: We’re looking for slow burns in a world of hot takes, questions asked instead of answers proved. We welcome a wide variety of nonfiction—traditional essay, narrative nonfiction, micro/flash memoir—and encourage experimentation, though not at the expense of factual truth. Too many true stories go untold, and we want to offer space to honor those voices. Please submit only one essay or flash totaling to no more than the word limit at a time.
Poetry: 3-5 poems, open to content, form, structure. Submit all poems in one document. Do not submit individual poems separately. Please don’t forget the power voice, sound, and time can have in poetry.
For all submissions, simultaneous submissions are permitted, but please let us know. To withdraw one part of a submission, please email us at kinliteraryjournal@gmail.com. Please wait six months before resubmitting.Experimental, traditional, playful, prayerful, celebratory, challenging: human—try us. Show us a new way to tell one of the millions of stories under that glorious sun.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Womxn Magic
20 June 2019
“Where is a woman, there is magic. “–Nzotake Shange
Make art about womxn magic, about a goddess you know.
Daily Prompt Love <3 The Best Revenge
19 June 2019
When I was twelve or thirteen, a friend’s father, a somewhat pompous college professor, the kind who insisted on being addressed as Doctor…. told me I would never amount to anything.
As I say my gratitude prayers for today, I include him, that adult who was obviously so damaged or insecure that he felt compelled to strike out at a child. I took what he said as a challenge, a dare, a call to my Aries spirit to not only succeed, but to also surpass not only his poor expectations, but the much greater ones I already had for myself then.
Make art about success being the best revenge.
Image by Jonny Lindner from Pixabay
Two Call for Submissions <3 K'in, and Womxn at Red Door 104
So much literary excitement happening around here! Check out these two calls for submissions, one for online journal publication, the second for participating in an exciting new Virginia reading series!
K’in: A Literary Journal Celebrating the Range and Diversity of Voices Under Our One Sun, seeks fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and submissions from Young Writers!
Submission details here!
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Womxn at Red Door 104: Words & Art A New Reading Series Celebrating Virginia Women, Woman-Identifying, Genderfluid, Genderqueer, & Nonbinary-Identifying Writer
Daily Prompt Love <3 Grandfather
16 June 2019
My dad was one of the funniest, gentlest souls to ever walk the planet. I wish my youngest son had had more time with him.
Make art about grandfathers.
Image by Mabel Amber, still incognito… from Pixabay
Daily Prompt Love <3 Fire & Ice
15 June 2019
“I was born in a forked-tongued story,/Raised up by merchants and drugstore liars./Now I walk on the paths of glory,/One foot in ice, one in fire.”–from “The Mountain” by Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer
Make art about fire and ice.
Image by Jonny Lindner from Pixabay
New Reading Series for Virginia Womxn Writers! Please Share!
Please share with your Virginia writing community! Thanks!
Womxn at Red Door 104: Words and Art
a new reading series created to celebrate Virginia womxn writers, is a partnership between Creative Writing at Longwood University and Red Door 104, a unique gallery and art learning center owned and operated by the tireless and talented Audrey Sullivan, in historic downtown Farmville,Virginia.
The series will consist of two events annually:
A reading and reception in April 2020, with two featured readers and five cameo readers.
All selected readers will then also have the unique and exciting experience of having visual art created by central Virginia artists in response to their submitted work. This art will be revealed in a second event, an art opening at Red Door 104 the following October.
The first Womxn at Red Door 104 reading will take place from 2-4 pm on Saturday, April 4, 2020. The art opening will take place in October 2020, date tba.
Selected writers must be available to read in person, and should be willing to attend both events. Submissions are limited to current Virginia residents.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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