"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

Posts tagged ‘creative nonfiction prompts’

Daily Prompt Love <3 It's on You

Make art about accountability, about being held accountable.

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Monsters and Magic

26 February 2017

Make art about monsters of our own making 

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27 February 2017

Make art about everyday magic. 

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Daily Prompt <3 A Question I Need To Ask

What are you afraid of? Make art about what you fear. 

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 When It Stopped

Make art about when the clock stopped. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Let Me Explain

Overslept, so it’s late, but it’s here. 

Make art about having to explain something, about providing an explanation, about the image below. 

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Daily Prompt Love Return <3 About Surrender

These last few months, the upheaval, uncertainty, not only in the world at large, but in my own life, with the loss of my sister, knocked me back on my heels a bit. Things–actions–activism–I knew I had to do took over, but now I feel I have found a rhythm, found my feet, and so much of what I’ve worked through, thought through, clarified for myself in these last weeks, has been about what I will not surrender. 

Art is at the heart of what I refuse to surrender, making it, sharing it, learning from it, from those with the courage to make it. Nope. No amount of fear-mongering will move me to abandon the making, or the makers. 

Make art about what you will not surrender. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Waiting

1/11/2017

Make art about waiting. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 What That Darkness Is

1/10/2017

“…darkness is but a ghost of an idea, the least

remembered, most estranged prayer, and your fear

but a lingering, limbic fear torn from shreds of forgotten years.”
 
–Alice B. Fogel

 

Make art about forgiving the darkness. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Unexpected Letters

1/9/2017

My daddy was a sweet, gentle, and wildly imperfect man. But one thing that we all knew, without question, was how much he loved our mama. And lest we forget, periodically, he would sit down and write a letter to each of us kids, telling us how much, and all the reasons why. We all lived in the same town, for so many years, but these letters would arrive unexpectedly in the mail, missives of fierce and eternal Love. 

Make art about an unexpected letter, or about fierce Love. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Makers

January 8, 2017

Make art inspired by the hands of the ancestors. 

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“A 6,200-year-old indigo-blue fabric from Huaca, Peru has been found by a researcher, making it one of the oldest-known cotton textiles in the world and the oldest known textile decorated with indigo blue.”

Researchers identify oldest textile dyed indigo, reflecting scientific knowledge from 6,200 years ago

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160914150426.htm

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