"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

Archive for the ‘nonfiction’ Category

Daily Prompt Love <3 Shifting

29 July 2019 

Make art about shape shifting, about a shape shifter. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 On Not Wanting to See

28 July 2019 

Blind Faith: belief without true understanding, perception, or discrimination.

Make art about unwillingness to see, listen, or learn, about blind faith. 

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Better Late Than Never, Right?

27 July 2019 

Down with a fever today. Ick. 

Make art about fever dreams. 

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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Tiferet, Themed Issue on "Borders"

Tiferet: Fostering Peace Through Literature & Art 

Call for Submissions on Special Borders Issue

Deadline: September 1, 2019

Currently accepting submissions for a special issue of Tiferet Journal entitled “Borders.” In this issue, we will focus on breaking down walls and crossing borders of culture, faith, gender, and spiritual beliefs to promote understanding, compassion and cross-cultural connections.

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Complete Submissions Details Here

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Blocking

26 July 2019 

Make art about obstruction, about obstructing something, or about being obstructed. 

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Image by Brigitte Werner from Pixabay

Daily Prompt Love <3 Jungle Wild

25 July 2019 

“Jungle rain had no beginning or end; it grew like foliage from the sky, branching and arching to the earth, sometimes in solid thickets entangling the islands, and other times, in tendrils of blue mist curling out of coastal clouds. The jungle breathed an eternal green that fevered men.”-Leslie Marmon Silko

Make art using a jungle as the inspiration or central metaphor. 

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Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay

Daily Prompt Love <3 Even If Your Voice Shakes

24 July 2019 

Make art about the truth-tellers. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Facing It

23 July 2019 

Make art about confrontation, about confronting someone or something, about avoiding confrontation, or about a time when confrontation was healthy. 

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Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

Monday Must Read! The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall

A must-read for any writer or storyteller, I think. 

Buy It Here! 

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A New York Times Editor’s Choice
 
A Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Finalist
“A jaunty, insightful new book . . . [that] draws from disparate corners of history and science to celebrate our compulsion to storify everything around us.”
New York Times

Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. Now Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. He argues that stories help us navigate life’s complex social problems–just as flight simulators prepare pilots for difficult situations. Storytelling has evolved, like other behaviors, to ensure our survival. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary biology, Gottschall tells us what it means to be a storytelling animal and explains how stories can change the world for the better. We know we are master shapers of story. The Storytelling Animal finally reveals how stories shape us.

“This is a quite wonderful book. It grips the reader with both stories and stories about the telling of stories, then pulls it all together to explain why storytelling is a fundamental human instinct.”
–Edward O. Wilson

“Charms with anecdotes and examples . . . we have not left nor should we ever leave Neverland.”–Cleveland Plain Dealer

Daily Prompt Love <3 The Reveal

22 July 2019 

revelation (n.)

c. 1300, “disclosure of information to man by a divine or supernatural agency,” from Old French revelacion and directly from Latin revelationem (nominative revelatio), noun of action from past participle stem of revelare “unveil, uncover, lay bare” (see reveal). General meaning “disclosure of facts” is attested from late 14c.; meaning “striking disclosure” is from 1862. As the name of the last book of the New Testament (Revelation of St. John), it is first attested late 14c.

Make art about a revelation, about what was revealed. 

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