"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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Special Sunny Sunday Call For Submissions

Even though it’s Sunday, they’re accepting submissions at Blue Monday 🙂 

http://www.bluemondayreview.com/

Submission Guidelines

http://www.bluemondayreview.com/#!submit-your-work/c1ijy

And they pay!

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Looking for Inspiration? Hundreds of Prompts!

Right here on the Writing Prompts Page! Check it out! 

Writing Prompts

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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.

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Get-Your-Write-On Promptathon! New Workshop Offering

NEW WORKSHOP OFFERING! 🙂
 
Get-Your-Write-On Promptathon!
 
Join me this spring!
 
June 3-5, 2016
at the beautiful historic writers retreat The Porches, in Norwood VA
5 Sessions of Diverse and Intriguing Prompts
designed to inspire, incite, and ignite your creativity!
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Come write with us! Let’s make some beautiful work together!
4 Spaces available–Reserve your spot now!
This workshop will be a fun and generative weekend of inspiration focused on generating new writing in a supportive and easy environment. The weekend is open to writers of all genres – poetry, fiction, nonfiction– even to those who think they’re not writers! As a group, we’ll go through five different sessions of prompts and exercises designed to ignite creativity, inspire new ideas or reinvigorate old ones, maybe even giving ourselves the push to finish something we are currently working on!
After writing, participants will have the option to share what’s created for gentle feedback, if desired. Perfect for those who want some inspiration, and to write to generate and gather new material!
Join us for a weekend of freewheeling creativity and encouragement! And I cook for you! 🙂
 
$275 – includes described three-day workshop, one shared evening meal prepared by instructor, light breakfast fare Saturday and Sunday mornings, and the beautiful relaxing accommodations at The Porches.
Message me on Facebook, or email carrollhackettma@gmail.com
Pass this on, please, to any you think might be interested! Thanks

 

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Editing & Critique Services

Got book?

Via mail or face to face at The Porches, I offer a range of editing and consulting services for writers.

Let’s work together to make your beautiful work even better!

Details here!

Editing/Consultation Services

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Monday Must Read! Nancy Peacock: A Broom of One’s Own

Monday Must Read! 

Nancy 6This week meet Nancy Peacock! Nancy is a mostly self-taught author. Her first novel, Life Without Water, was chosen as a New York Times Most Notable Book. She followed with a second novel, Home Across the Road. Her collection of essays on writing and housecleaning, (a personal favorite here in Mary’s house :-)) A Broom of One’s Own was published by Harper Collins. Her third novel The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson will be published in 2016 by Atria Press. Peacock has supported herself and her writing life with numerous jobs including housecleaner, bartender, carpenter, paper deliverer, assistant drum maker, costumer, baker, milker on a dairy farm, and teacher.

Nancy’s also an incredibly generous spirit, offering ongoing classes and workshops aimed at helping other writers, and she hosts a don’t-miss blog, Matginalia, filled with wonderful insight and writer wisdom.

Visit Nancy’s website:

www.nancypeacockbooks.com

Check Out Nancy’s Beautiful Books!

Life Without Water

http://www.amazon.com/Life-Without-Water-Nancy-Peacock/dp/0553379291

Home Across the Road

http://www.amazon.com/Home-Across-Road-Nancy-Peacock/dp/1563525097/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1450703985&sr=8-1

A Broom of One’s Own

http://www.harpercollins.com/9780061357879/a-broom-of-ones-own

Read Nancy’s Blog!

http://nancypeacockbooks.com/wp/

Praise for Nancy’s Work:

Publishers Weekly

http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-56352-337-3

Kirkus Reviews

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/nancy-peacock/the-life-and-times-of-persimmon-wilson/

Southern Scribe

http://www.southernscribe.com/reviews/general_fiction/Home_Across_Road.htm

Reading Group Guides:

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/reviews/life-without-water

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/reviews/home-across-the-road

Classes & Workshops

http://nancypeacockbooks.com/classes/

 

Happy Reading, y’all!

xo

Mary

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! Conclave: Looking for Work Focused on Change

Conclave 

(Feb 2016 issue)

Ends on 1/15/2016

As this established literary journal changes hands, the theme for the next edition accordingly focuses on change as an inevitable force in our lives, ideally though not certainly a force for progress and growth. We’re looking for contributions relating to political and social change and well as changes in the human character. We’re looking for work that envisions the future, better tomorrows and bitter tomorrows, changes in love and life and the heart of humankind.

Conclave: A Journal of Character seeks poetry, fiction, and non-fiction of exceptional literary merit. The work we seek has a transcendent aesthetic impact on the reader. It is not merely about the mystery of being, but heightens the reader’s sense of the mystery underlying the fabric of our daily lives. We are looking for work about character or work that displays character, that holds it up to a fresh light and helps reader see what they did not see before.

We seek to be broad, inclusive, and open to perspectives spanning all spectrums of thought, ethnicity, gender identity, and sexual orientation.

We are interested in work originally written in English and work in English translation from any language. We are interested in all genres, including mixed or multiple genre works, or work that simply defies classification.

Guidelines:

1   We are an environmentally conscious journal and only accept submissions through Submittable.

2   Format and Length. Poetry: Submit 1-3 original, unpublished poems, in a single document, each poem on a separate page, no longer than 10 pages total. Short Fiction: Submit 1 story, no longer than 5000 words. Creative Nonfiction: Submit one essay, no longer than 5000 words. Photography: Submit 1-3 photographs, black and white only. Unclassifiable: No longer than 2000 words.

3   You are welcome to submit more than once, but each submission must be a separate file uploaded to Submittable.

4   Do not put your name or any other identifying information on the document that holds your submission. Do not include your name in the file name for your submission. We follow a “blind” reading system: our editors read all submissions without knowing who wrote them.

5   Use Times New Roman 12 pt. for the text of your submission. Single-space your poems; double space between stanzas. Double-space prose manuscripts.

6   Include a 60-word bio written in third person, providing specific information about your writing life and your previous publishing credits.

7   No previously published work — print or online — including work posted on personal websites or social network websites. If your work can be found searching Google, we consider it published.

8   If you have questions, please visit our website, conclavejournal.com, or email wbernhardt@conclave.com.

Conclave’s Website: conclavejournal.com

 

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Got book? Let’s work together to make your beautiful work even better!

Got book? Let’s work together to make your beautiful work even better!
editor
 
I offer full manuscript consultations in all genres, drawing on my two decades as a writing teacher, more than ten years editing, and lessons learned in pursuit of publication of my own five, soon to be six, books.
 
My consultations are offered two ways, by correspondence, or in a three-day intensive one-on-one weekend totally focused on your manuscript at the beautiful and inspiring writers retreat The Porches in Norwood VA.
 
PM or email at carrollhackettma@gmail.com if interested 🙂
Check out the website for more details!
 
https://marycarrollhackett.com/general-editing-services/

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! Bluestem, until December 1

Bluestem
 
“Bluestem magazine is waiving submission fees for the month of November and seeking fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art. Based out of Eastern Illinois University, Bluestem produces two quarterly online issues (September and December) and an annual spring print issue. Please submit no more than five poems at one time, or one short story, or one creative non fiction essay, or five black & white drawings. Fiction / prose / essays should be no longer than 5,000 words. All work is considered for both print and online publication.”
 
We only accept submissions via our online submission manager ,which can be accessed at bluestem.submittable.com. 
 
Submissions close for the year on December 1.

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Sometimes the Prompt Takes You Home

11/19/2015
Daily Prompt
 
“Man, you’re already home and you don’t even know it.
You have a room you can return to, and you’ll never outgrow it.
See, you’re already home when you don’t know where to find it.”
~The Antlers
 
Make art about refuge.
 
#writingprompt #art #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #music #wordsmatter
 

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