"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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Daily Prompt Love <3 Nesting

15 April 2019 

Make art about nests, about nesting, about building a nest, about the topography of nests. 

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Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Anger

14 April 2019 

Make art about someone else’s anger, about being the target of or setting boundaries against someone else’s anger. Or about understanding that anger is often fear. 

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Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Opening

13 April 2019

The name for the month of April originally came for Aprilis which means to open.

Write about opening, about what’s opening. 

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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Adanna

Adanna Literary Journal  is accepting poetry, fiction, essay, and book 
review submissions until May 1 for the Fall 2019 issue.

“We are looking for work that is devoted to the women’s experience.  All
topics must in some way explore women’s issues or experiences such as
motherhood, loss, issues of inequality, romantic relationships, the
experience of being a daughter, caretaker, etc.  We also welcome work
from the male perspective on these topics.”

Representative authors include:  Jennifer Arin, Ronda Broatch, Cheryl
Buchanan, Sarah Busse, Cathy Carlisi, George Drew, Patricia Fargnoli,
Alice B. Fogel, Ruth Foley, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Oscar Gonzales,
Penny Harter, Kathleen Hoerth, Claire Keyes, Kathleen Kirk, Judy
Kronenfeld, Katharyn Howd Machan, Marjorie Maddox, Robin Lim, John
McDermott, Judith H. Montgomery, Lois Greene Stone, Barbara Siman
Strouse and many others.

All published authors receive a free contributor’s copy.  To see full
guidelines visit https://www.adannaliteraryjournal.org/ 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 All Three

12 April 2019

Write something inspired by this:

We are, all of us, always, the child the adult, and the elder simultaneously.

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Loop

11 April 2019 

Write about something on a loop, something come back again. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Place

10 April 2019 

Make art about a place abandoned, about the spirit of an old place, about what the land remembers. 

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Gardi, GA. Photo by John Eaton

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Poverty

9 April 2019 

Make art about poverty, about the scars poverty leaves, about the cost of poverty on the rest of society, about institutionalized poverty. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Road Closed

8 April 2019 

Make art about finding the road closed, about having to detour, about getting where you want in spite of roadblocks. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Lose

7 April 2019

Make art about losing, about the weight of a loss, or about a time when losing actually meant winning.

 

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