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Some Weekend Call for Submissions Love <3 Firefly
Firefly Magazine
From their website:
Submit
Here at Firefly we are mainly looking for submissions of:
*Short Stories (1 piece up to 3000 words)
*Flash Fiction (1-3 pieces up to 500 words each)
*Poetry ( 3-5 short/average length poems OR 1 long poem)
*Short Stories (1 piece up to 3000 words)
*Flash Fiction (1-3 pieces up to 500 words each)
*Poetry ( 3-5 short/average length poems OR 1 long poem)
Multiple submissions are fine, but only submit one of each type before hearing back from us. Example: One Fiction submission and one Flash Fiction submission, or one submission of all three types (Fiction, Poetry, Flash). *Above are what we’ll accept as 1 submission per type.
They should also be separate email submissions. Don’t send us your poetry and fiction in one submission, please. It angers the elves.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please do notify us immediately if it is accepted elsewhere.
Previously published pieces are okay, but they will have to be very, very good to be seriously considered. Please cite where it was published first.
We read on a rolling basis, so we’re taking submissions year round. To submit, email us at editorfirefly@gmail.com
Submission time for Issues close on the 24th of each month. Everything we get after the 24th will be considered for the following Issue.
To submit, make the subject of the email “Firefly Submission” plus the category you are submitting to. For example: “Firefly Submission Flash Fiction” or “Firefly Submission Poetry”. Please attach works as a Word.doc or .docx. Keep all submissions in one single document, which each new piece beginning on a separate page.
We also accept illustrations/artwork/photography. Send those to us as a .jpg with the subject line “Firefly Submission Artwork”. Up to 5 pieces at a time, please.
We will try to respond as quickly as we can; responses can be expected within the month of submission. If a month has passed from the day you have submitted to us and you haven’t heard from us, please feel free to send a query with either “Query” or “What The Heck” in the subject line. We find the latter more cathartic. It’s up to you. “
Daily Prompt Love <3 Traffic
1 July 2017
Make art about something unexpected, something magical, happening in heavy, holiday traffic.
Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Panoply
Call for Submissions
Issue 7 of Panoply, now through Sunday, July 23.
Their call:
Some key submissions criteria:
- Unpublished pieces only.
- Simultaneous submissions are ok, but please notify us ASAP if a piece is withdrawn.
- Poetry or short prose (<=500 words for prose – We’ve had to decline some prose pieces that were above our word count limit. Please comply.)
- We read 100% blind. Do not put your name or other identifying information on the pieces. Use Submittable’s Bio/Notes box for your personal bio of <=60 words.
- Maximum of 3 pieces per submission.
- Please submit ONE attachment, preferably in MS WORD, with each piece beginning on a new page.
- Please submit in 12 pt font, preferably something popular such as Times New Roman, Calibri, or Arial.
- We prefer single-spaced formats, except when alternate spacing is a deliberate part of the layout.
- Our software limits our ability to indent and create horizontal space across a line of text. We’ll do our best to preserve original formats, but keep in mind our limitations.
- Hard copy will not be accepted and will be destroyed.
- Issue 7 is unthemed.
- We tend to respond to most pieces after the window has closed. So, please be patient as you await our reply.
To submit, please visit: Panoply’s Submittable Page.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Bullies, and What's Elemental
29 June 2017
Make art about a bully, about standing up to bullies, or about the need that drives them.
30 June 2017
el·e·men·tal (eləˈmen(t)l/)
adjective
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primary or basic.
“elemental features from which all other structures are compounded”
synonyms: basic, primary, fundamental, essential, root, underlying; rudimentary
“the elemental principles of….”
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related to or embodying the powers of nature.
“a thunderstorm is the inevitable outcome of battling elemental forces”
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synonyms: natural, atmospheric, meteorological, environmental, climatic “elemental forces”
Make art about something elemental.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Learning While Traveling, and What Has to Go
27 June 2017
Manchild’s headed off for a trip to Hawaii with his girlfriend 🙂
Make art about learning something on a long flight.
28 June 2017
I’m reorganizing and rearranging and reshaping my tiny little house in the trees, moving furniture, getting rid of stuff.
Make art about discoveries made while spring cleaning or reorganizing. Or make art about the feeling of newness that comes after a big clean or reorganization, after ‘cleaning house.’
Sometimes the Day Is the Poem <3
But our hearts will need us
To be steady and strong
So we can stand and face the fire
Burning higher and higher
No way over it
No way around it
If we want it
We have to go through it
Fight for a love
And the world tries to break us down
But the world will bend and the fight will end
Love will always win
Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Turning It All Off, and Something From Pattiann Rogers
25 June 2017
Spent the weekend on the electronic grid, phone in airplane mode, no social media, and got some serious writing done, as well as some needed quiet.
Make art about going off the grid, however you interpret that.
26 June 2017
Make art inspired by this line from one of my favorite poets, Pattian Rogers:
Mothers, fathers, our kind, tell me again that death doesn’t matter. Tell me it’s just a limitation of vision ,a fold of landscape,a deep flax-and-poppy-filled gully hidden on the hill….
Monday Must Read! Splintered Memories, Leslie Rupracht
Beautiful work from an amazing literary citizen ❤
Leslie M. Rupracht is the daughter of retired artists/art educators who moved their family each summer from Long Island, NY, to the Rupracht farm upstate, north of Syracuse. Leslie’s creative bent was nurtured early by her mother/muse and father/mentor. After earning a BA in English at The State University of New York at Geneseo, where she also studied journalism, public relations and studio art, Leslie infused her career with diverse right- and left-brained experiences. Her poetry has appeared in The Main Street Rag, Iodine Poetry Journal, Open Cut, THRIFT Poetic Arts Journal, and Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets (all editions); her prose is published in moonShine review, corporate and non-profit newsletters and magazines. Leslie is senior associate editor of Iodine Poetry Journal. Calling Charlotte, NC, home since 1997, Leslie enjoys life and laughter with husband/favorite architect, Will Weaver, and rescue mutt, Magnum.
Buy Splintered Memories from Main Street Rag
Praise for Splintered Memories
What a wonderfully honest portrait of an uncertain life. A woman in constant transition, painfully aware of her own aging, her own flaws, handwriting gone from calligraphic to indecipherable, vanity to humility, reason to compulsion, identity to doubt. This poetic narrative of a daughter’s relationship with a mother whose illness has deprived her of memory illuminates the impermanence of things, the relativity of reality, the tenuous nature of memory, perception and personality, whether they are fiction, or fact, or something in between.—Scott Owens
More from Leslie Online
https://awriterswindow.wordpress.com/2017/04/09/national-poetry-month-leslie-m-rupracht/
http://www.charlottelit.org/event/reading-words-with-love/
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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