"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 Mid-Week Call for Submissions Love <3 Streetlight Magazine Contest Seeking Essays

Streetlight Mag Essay Contest
 
“We are seeking strong and stirring personal
stories–maximum 800 words. Winning entries
will be published in the summer issue of Streetlight
magazine on July 14, 2017 and may be produced
as a podcast on Streetlight Voices. All entries
will be considered for general publication.”
 
Deadline for entries is July 1st, 2017 (midnight EST).
Entry fee: $10
Enter at: streetlightmag.com/essaymemoir-contest/
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Daily Prompt Love <3 Yes, Please

7 June 2017

Feeling my Southern mama at my shoulder. 

Make art about manners, having them, learning them, lacking them, using them in difficult situations. 

manners

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Daily Prompt Love <3 When I Ask Why

6 June 2017

Make art inspired by this. 

poor

 

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Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up<3 Locks and Space

4 June 2017

Make art about locks, locking things in, locking things out, unlocking locks. 

locks

 

5 June 2017

Something I’m still learning, still working on. 

Make art about making space for the unknown, the yet to come. 

making-space

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Other People's Pictures

3 June 2017

I collect photographs from thrift stores, other people’s pictures sold, I guess, in estate sales and such. I carry some of them with me when I travel, sometimes keep some of them on my night stand, wait for them to tell me their stories, or just so I can say that someone remembers them. 

I scanned in some of my favorites. 

Make art inspired by one of these photos. 

blind womenold family pic 1thrift store pics 1cthrift store pics 2thrift store pics 3thrift store pics 4

 

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Friday Call for Submissions Love x 2: Malevolent Soap, Intersecting ‘High’ and ‘Low’ Culture

Malevolent Soap

Deadline: July 1, 2017

 

Malevolent Soap is an independent journal of poetry and fiction. We’re based in Melbourne, Australia, but our issues feature emerging and established voices from around the planet. We publish annually, in September. Anything goes, but we’re partial to work that explores intersections of ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture. Whether it invokes Nicolas Cage as muse or bemoans Rick Deckard’s overconsumption of MSG in verse, we’re interested.

Our debut issue is slated for release on September 1. Submissions are open until July 1. We pay $20 AUD per published piece.

To submit, visit the website malevolentsoap.com

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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Collateral: Work Concerned with Impact of Military Service

COLLATERAL

Poetry, Prose and Art on the Impact of Military Service

Submissions accepted year-round.

 

Collateral is an online literary journal affiliated with the University of Washington Tacoma. We publish poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual arts concerned with the impact of military service beyond the combat zone. The voices of those more indirectly impacted by war sometimes go unheard, and our journal seeks to capture the “collateral” impact of military service in all its forms. We publish work by veterans, reserve/active duty soldiers, and civilians every May and November; we accept submissions year-round through our website. Send up to 5 poems, 3,000 words of prose, or 7 images.

Website:  www.collateraljournal.com

 

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Lost, Sold, and Declined

31 May 2017

For years I suffered with mazeophobia, the fear of getting lost. One family member, I remember before one trip, scoffed, asking if I was afraid of flying. No, I said, I’m afraid of airports. What I actually was fearful of was getting lost in the airport. Not long after that, I ended up stranded in the Minneapolis airport for seventeen hours, walking, walking, every inch of that airport. By the time I finally boarded my plane, I wasn’t afraid of airports anymore. But…the fear of getting lost in general remained.

I bought and studied an atlas. I bought a Garmin GPS. I learned how to use the GPA on my phone. I created a system of tracking my entire journey. I not only got in my car and traveled with others, I got in that little red car and traveled by myself, thousands of miles every year, two lane backroads, me and Garmin and my maps and my notes and my music.

I still have a phobia of becoming lost, but I am more afraid of being trapped, limited, by my fear.

Make art about what it means to be lost.

maze

1 June 2017

Make art about what’s being bought and paid for.

bought and paid for

2 June 2017

Make art about the decline of an empire.

decline of empire

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Like A Circle In a Spiral

30 May 2017

Been hearing (and singing) this song since I woke up. 

Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Make art about circles, inside circles, circling, unending spirals, cycles, the circles we inhabit, the circles we create.

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Daily Prompt Love <3 The Cost

29 May 2017

Make art inspired by this quote:

who-wishes-to-fight-must

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