"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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Monday Must Read! Marie Manilla: The Patron Saint of Ugly

 

marie manillaThis week meet Marie Manilla, author The Patron Saint of Ugly, winner of the Weatherford Award. Her novel Shrapnel received the Fred Bonnie Award for Best First Novel. Still Life with Plums: Short Stories was a finalist for both The Weatherford Award and ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year. Marie is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in The Chicago Tribune, Prairie Schooner, Mississippi Review, Calyx, SouthWrit Large, and other journals. She’s also an incredibly kind and generous person.

 

Visit Marie’s Website Here: http://www.mariemanilla.com/

 

Buy Marie’s Beautiful Books!

The Patron Saint of Ugly

https://www.amazon.com/Patron-Saint-Ugly-Marie-Manilla/dp/0544146247/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470053896&sr=8-1&keywords=patron+saint+of+ugly

 

Still Life With Plums: Short Stories

http://www.wvupressonline.com/manilla_still_life_with_plums_9781933202600

 

Shrapnel

https://www.amazon.com/Shrapnel-Marie-Manilla/dp/1579660843/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470054659&sr=8-1&keywords=shrapnel+marie+manilla

 

More from Marie Online

http://tetheredbyletters.com/fronline-short-story-laser-beam/

http://www.cleavermagazine.com/belle-fleur-by-marie-manilla/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNVI2ki_6KE

http://wvupressonline.com/author_bio/manilla

http://monkeybicycle.net/dragonfly/

http://dev.writersdojo.org/author/mariemanilla/

 

Interviews, Reviews, and Blogs

http://www.mariemanilla.com/interviewsreviewsblogs.htm

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Daily Prompt <3 You Know…That Woman

29 July 2016 

Mama always said I came into the world asking forgiveness instead of permission. 

Make art about fearless women. 

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Call For Submissions Love <3 Lumina: Borders and Boundaries

LUMINA, Vol. XVI: Borders and Boundaries

Deadline: September 15, 2016

 

We are looking for bold, beautiful, and new interpretations of all the ways we interface with borders and boundaries in our world: travel, immigration, maps, gender, sexuality, love, citizenship, race, the physical body, language, death, the interior vs. the exterior, atmospheric layers, psychological barriers, prisons, fences, rules and relationships, challenging the boundaries among genres, and anything else this theme conjures up.

Lumina website: luminajournal.com

 

Full Submissions Guidelines here: https://luminajournal.com/submission-guidelines/

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Windows, Thirst, and Falling in Love

 

26 July 2016

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.” ― Edith Wharton

Make art about a window opening.

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27 July 2016

“Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater imperative.”―Yann Martel, Life of Pi

Make art about what you thirst for.

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28 July 2016

Make art about falling in Love with the world, even—especially–when it seems to be at its most heartbreaking, when it seems too difficult to Love.

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Thresholds and John Donne

24 July 2016

Liminal (adj.)

“of or pertaining to a threshold,” 1884, from Latin limen “threshold, cross-piece, sill” (see limit (n.)) + -al (1). Related: Liminality.

Definition: occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.

Make art about being on a threshold, being in a liminal space.

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25 July 2016

“Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.”~John Donne

Make art about being your own palace, or about the world as a jail. 

 

 

 

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Daily Prompt <3 What the Body Has To Say

23 July 2016

Reading one of my favorite writers this morning, Linda Hogan. If only we all could listen in the miraculous way she does. 

“When the body wishes to speak, she will”~Linda Hogan

Make art about what the body has to say. 

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Daily Prompt <3 The Power of Choice

22 July 2016

Make art inspired by this quote.

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Call for Submissions Love <3 Print-Oriented Bastards

PRINT-ORIENTED BASTARDS

A quarterly online literary magazine that features emerging writers and artists. All genres are welcome, including literary comics, interviews, reviews, and cross-genre work. Simultaneous submissions accepted year-round. Response time is typically 1 month. For guidelines and the latest issue, visit www.printorientedbastards.com.

Complete Guidelines Here: http://www.printorientedbastards.com/submit.html

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Revolution, Creation, and Dreaming

7/19/2016

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”~John Kennedy

 

Make art about revolution.

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7/20/2016

When the world becomes too much, I make things, usually for other people. So this week I’m sewing old fashioned cloth dolls to send to the children’s unit at the Massey Cancer Center.

Make art about when the world becomes too much.

 

7/21/2016

In the way I was taught, there are four fundamental types of dreams: waking life dreams; visitation dreams; teaching dreams; and traveling dreams.

Make art about one of these types of dreams.

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18 Months of Daily Prompts!

Get that creativity flowing! 

https://marycarrollhackett.com/writing-prompts/

creativity

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