Daily Prompt Love <3 According to Pooh :-)
23 April 2017
Rainy Sunday. Yep. Make art about the art of the nap.
Archive for the ‘nonfiction’ Category
Daily Prompt Love <3 For the March for Science
22 April 2017
I can’t join the March for Science today, so to honor those who march–
Make art inspired by this.
Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 HeartWood, General Submissions & Broadside Contest
HeartWood, a literary magazine in association with the low-res MFA at West Virginia Wesleyan College, is accepting submissions for the October issue. Seeking poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
Guidelines for journal here: http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/submit/
HeartWood also hosts an annual broadside competition, open for reading now.
A writing practice requires us to slow down, reflect, attend. HeartWood Literary Magazine & West Virginia Wesleyan’s MFA Program seek to honor this practice with an annual broadside series and contest. Partnering with West Virginia letterpress company Base Camp Printing, we print the winning entry (poetry or flash prose) on a limited-edition letterpress broadside featuring an original image inspired by the text. The annual broadside serves as artifact companion to the fall issue of the digital magazine. Both the handmade and the electronic HeartWood venues aim to showcase work that gets to the heart of the matter.
2017 Contest Judge: MAGGIE ANDERSON is the author of five books of poems most recently Dear All, (Four Way Books, 2017) and five edited or co-edited volumes of poetry. She was the founding director of the Wick Poetry Center and founder and editor of the Wick Poetry Series of the Kent State University Press. Anderson was also the Director of the Northeast Ohio MFA in creative writing from 2006-2009 and is the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as grants from the Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania Councils on the Arts. Maggie Anderson is Professor Emerita in English of Kent State University and currently lives in Asheville, NC.
- $15 entry fee (includes a mailed copy of the winning broadside)
- Contest opens April 1, 2017. The submission deadline for the prize is midnight June 1, 2017.
- Submit one poem (of any form) or flash prose piece (fiction or nonfiction) per entry; regardless of genre, the entry must be 200 words or less. There is no limit on the number of entries per person.
- $500 cash prize + 25 copies of limited-edition letterpress broadside will be awarded to the winner.
- All entries will also be considered for publication in HeartWood
Broadside Guidelines here: http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/contest/
Daily Prompt Love <3 Giving, and Balance
20 April 2017
“No one has ever become poor by giving.” -Anne Frank
Make art about the benefits of giving.
21 April 2017
Lots of company above this morning for our walk.
Make art about maintaining balance, about regaining balance, about seeking balance.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Vessels, Relentlessness, and Talk in the Night
17 April 2017
- Vessel (n.)
- c. 1300, “container,” from Old French vessel “container, receptacle, barrel; ship” (12c., Modern French vaisseau) from Late Latin vascellum “small vase or urn,” also “a ship,” alteration of Latin vasculum, diminutive of vas “vessel.” Sense of “ship, boat” is found in English from early 14c. “The association between hollow utensils and boats appears in all languages” [Weekley]. Meaning “canal or duct of the body” (especially for carrying blood) is attested from late 14c.
- Make art about a vessel.
- 18 April 2017
- Make art about something relentless, about relentless emotion.
- 19 April 2017
- Awake until four in the morning last night, me and the deer, and a lone owl in the oak outside the window.
- Make art about a conversations in the night, about how the night talks to you.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Some People Just Need to Fight
16 April 2017
“He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running.”
– Richard Adams
It’s hard to empathize with the combative life attitude until we look below the surface and see it’s a protective mechanism, meant to combat the anxiety produced from a world perceived as hostile. The need to fight is really just a signal of deep fear.
Make art about the fear driving combative people, or about understanding and forgiving them.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Being Seen
15 April 2017
At some point every semester, I challenge my students to look everyone they meet in the eye, even the strangers they pass, to turn while standing in line and speak to the person behind them, in front of them, to make acknowledging other human beings around them a habit.
One of my current students asked me, sadness softening her young face, why other people won’t, don’t, look at each other, much less look each other in the eyes as they pass. We’re afraid, I told her, of revealing ourselves, of being seen.
Make art about seeing each other, about taking the risk of being seen.
Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 500 Miles, New Publication Seeking Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry
500 Miles Magazine Seeking Submissions for Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry
500 Miles Magazine is a new publication for writers who create work a little outside the mainstream. We enjoy the funny, the experimental, and the generally well written. They are currently seeking submissions in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
No bio or cover-letter is required.
Submissions are free.
Please copy and paste your work into the body of your email to: :500milesmagazineATgmailDOTcom.
Daily Prompt Love <3 What You Give
14 April 2017
Make art about service, about how the self is found in service to others.
HeartWood Litmag Issue 3 Now Live!
So honored to share work from CL Bledsoe,. J. P. Dancing Bear, Darnell Arnoult, Caroline Malone, Kiyah Moore , Sarah Robinson, Austin Jr., Katlin Brock, Amber Tran, Karla Van Vliet, Kayla Pearce, Susan Moorhead, Meaghan Quinn, Susan Moorhead, Nan Macmillan, Jeremy Reed, Brian Koester, LeighAnna Schesser, Adam McGraw, and Janice Hornburg 
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Thanks and Love to the tireless staff 
❤ As always, Danielle Kelly, CM Chapman, Beth Feagan, Susan Good, Mary Imo Stike, Jessica Spruill, and Vincent James Trimboli–you rock!
Beautiful work, getting to the heart of the matter Check it out!
And don’t miss the guidelines for our second annual HeartWood Broadside Series Competition. Contest open now!
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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