"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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Daily Prompt Love <3 The Best Revenge

19 June 2019 

When I was twelve or thirteen, a friend’s father, a somewhat pompous college professor, the kind who insisted on being addressed as Doctor…. told me I would never amount to anything. 

As I say my gratitude prayers for today, I include him, that adult who was obviously so damaged or insecure that he felt compelled to strike out at a child. I took what he said as a challenge, a dare, a call to my Aries spirit to not only succeed, but to also surpass not only his poor expectations, but the much greater ones I already had for myself then. 

Make art about success being the best revenge.

best revenge

Image by Jonny Lindner from Pixabay

 

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2019 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, fiction, freedom, Gratitude, healing, Love, nonfiction, One Love, peace, poetry, prompts, resistance, Writing, Writing Prompts

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Fire & Ice

15 June 2019 

“I was born in a forked-tongued story,/Raised up by merchants and drugstore liars./Now I walk on the paths of glory,/One foot in ice, one in fire.”–from “The Mountain” by Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer 

Make art about fire and ice. 

fire &amp; ice

Image by Jonny Lindner from Pixabay

 

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2019 Prompts, activism, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, fiction, freedom, Gratitude, healing, Love, Music, nonfiction, One Love, peace, poetry, prompts, Writing, Writing Prompts

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New Reading Series for Virginia Womxn Writers! Please Share!

Please share with your Virginia writing community! Thanks!
 
Womxn at Red Door 104: Words and Art
 
a new reading series created to celebrate Virginia womxn writers, is a partnership between Creative Writing at Longwood University and Red Door 104, a unique gallery and art learning center owned and operated by the tireless and talented Audrey Sullivan, in historic downtown Farmville,Virginia.
 
The series will consist of two events annually:
 
A reading and reception in April 2020, with two featured readers and five cameo readers.
 
All selected readers will then also have the unique and exciting experience of having visual art created by central Virginia artists in response to their submitted work. This art will be revealed in a second event, an art opening at Red Door 104 the following October.
 
The first Womxn at Red Door 104 reading will take place from 2-4 pm on Saturday, April 4, 2020. The art opening will take place in October 2020, date tba.
 
Selected writers must be available to read in person, and should be willing to attend both events. Submissions are limited to current Virginia residents.
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Daily Prompt Love <3 YFBD

14 June 2019 

“Stay true to it, Missy. Don’t doubt it. YFBD, baby. Your first best destiny.” -John Little Bear Eaton

Make art about your first best destiny, about finding and trusting the path you were born for, about believing and following your heart. 

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2019 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, fiction, freedom, Gratitude, healing, Love, nonfiction, One Love, peace, poetry, prompts, Writing, Writing Prompts

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Refugee

“Like the refugee, poetry’s margin, its zero yield, its nothing, will have an essential role to play in what comes next. It is a “yes” to existence in the time of disaster, an affirmation of possibility when all else seems lost.”–Robert Fernandez

Make art about refugees. 

refugee

Image by kai kalhh from Pixabay

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2019 Prompts, activism, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Dreams, Family, fiction, freedom, healing, Love, nonfiction, One Love, peace, poetry, prompts, resistance, Writing, Writing Prompts

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Daily Prompt Love <3 In the Imperfect

31 May 2019

In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.” It is a concept derived from the Buddhist teaching of the three marks of existence, specifically impermanence, suffering, and emptiness or absence of self-nature.

“Wabi-sabi nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.”-Richard Powell

Make art inspired by wabi sabi, about imperfection, or impermanence.

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Read more about wabi sabi here

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2019 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, fiction, freedom, Gratitude, Love, Nature, nonfiction, One Love, peace, poetry, prompts, Writing, Writing Prompts

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Sacrifice

27 May 2019 

Make art about sacrifice. 

sacrifice

Image by Filip Dukanic from Pixabay

 

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2019 Prompts, activism, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Family, fiction, freedom, Gratitude, healing, Love, nonfiction, One Love, peace, poetry, prompts, Writing, Writing Prompts

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Rebels

24 May 2019 

Make art about being a rebel, about rebellion. 

rebellion

 

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2019 Prompts, activism, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Community Events, Creativity, fiction, freedom, Gratitude, healing, Love, nonfiction, One Love, peace, poetry, prompts, resistance, Writing, Writing Prompts

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Humbled

23 May 2019 

Make art about being humble, being humbled, about the power of humility. 

humility

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Tear Em Down

22 May 2019 

Make art about tearing down walls. 

walls

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2019 Prompts, activism, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, fiction, freedom, Gratitude, healing, Love, Nature, nonfiction, One Love, peace, poetry, prompts, resistance, Writing, writing for peace, Writing Prompts, Writing Through the Chakras

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