"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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Call for Submission! New Reading Series for Virginia Womxn Writers!

Please note: Submissions are limited to current Virginia residents, and to Women, Woman-Identifying, Genderfluid, Genderqueer, & Nonbinary-Identifying Writers

Womxn at Red Door 104: Words & Art

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Womxn at Red Door 104: Words and Art, 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.

Believing that artists should be compensated when possible, we will award all selected readers a small token honorarium.

Please submit writing samples, as detailed below, along with a 50-75 word bio, via Submittable. Please include in your bio your current Virginia city of residence.

Submissions are limited to current Virginia residents.

Send us your best! We’re looking for work that is visually rich, and that will make for a compelling live reading.

Complete Submission Details Here! 

 

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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. 

 

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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.

Visit Tiferet Here

 

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

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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

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

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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

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Pond Water & Mud <3 Sharing a poem from my latest book (Un)Hinged

Thanks to Sammy Greenspan and all the good folks at Kattywompus Press ❤ Here’s a peek into this odd, little book ❤

Woman Made of Pond Water and Mud

mouth o’ing like fish, fighting for breath in the run-off, in the sludge, in what’s left
of the autumn light gold-slicking the green green surface. She fights to recall what it means to keep breathing.

Meaning is, she knows, manufactured, manufacturing, making, made. What will
we construct today, this day where cold rain pools all across the yard, and where
the gathering dark makes it hard for even the slightest steps of dreaming?

As a child she learned early to clean fish, buckets of struggle she and her brothers carried
home from the creek, the pond, the river, home to the scrape, the knife, the filet,
the tweezer pull of pin bones, careful delicate extractions, lessons in vigilance,
before her mama’s sure hands transformed their catch into sustenance.

She never could look in there, in the pail, couldn’t watch as those fish–
bass, stripe, crappie, cats–fought so hard, banged in circles against the smooth
unending plastic, ramming and gasping, drowning in air. She didn’t have to, look,
or ask, when even now her own small amphibious heart thudded
within the curve of her ribs, this breath, then that, the only meaning
even vaguely in reach of her grasp.

-Mary Carroll-Hackett, (Un)Hinged, Kattywompus Press, 2019

Purchase (Un)Hinged Here! 

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