Daily Prompt Love <3 In the Middle of the Night
23 March 2017
Make art about what you see in the middle of the night.
Posts tagged ‘creative nonfiction’
Daily Prompt Love <3 Again I Dreamt
20 March 2017
A recurring dream plays a significant role in the novel I just started.
Make art about what you dream again and again.
Monday Must Read! Sarah Einstein- Mot: A Memoir
Sarah Einstein is the author of Mot: A Memoir (University of Georgia Press 2015), Remnants of Passion (Shebooks 2014), and numerous essays and short stories. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Best of the Net, and the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction. She is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
At forty, Sarah Einstein is forced to face her own shortcomings. In the wake of an attempted sexual assault, she must come to terms with the facts that she is not tough enough for her job managing a local drop-in center for adults with mental illness and that her new marriage is already faltering. Just as she reaches her breaking point, she meets Mot, a homeless veteran who lives a life dictated by frightening delusion. She is drawn to the brilliant ways he has found to lead his own difficult life; traveling to Romania to get his teeth fixed because the United States doesn’t offer dental care to the indigent, teaching himself to use computers in public libraries, and even taking university classes while living out of doors.
Mot: A Memoir is the story of their unlikely friendship and explores what we can, and cannot, do for a person we love. In unsparing prose and with a sharp eye for detail, Einstein brings the reader into the world of Mot’s delusions and illuminates a life that would otherwise be hidden from us.
Sarah’s Website: http://www.saraheinstein.com/
Buy Sarah’s Books!
Read More from Sarah Online
Interviews
http://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/07/interview-sarah-einstein-author-of-mot-a-memoir/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs-z8UTK1BI
Hear Sarah Read at WVWC MFA Summer Residency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21OkuLmc5c0
Happy Reading, y’all!
xo
Mary
Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Last Words and Labyrinths
18 March 2017
Ten people I love have walked on to the next life since 2007.
Make art about the last time you saw someone, the last conversation, the last words you said.
19 March 2017
Dreamt a maze made of light last night.
Make art about a labyrinth, real or metaphorical.
Daily Prompt Love for St. Paddy’s Day <3
17 March 2017
Make art about an immigrant story, about the realities, about how America was built on the very backs of the immigrants they revile.
Daily Prompt Love <3
15 March 2017
Make art about restlessness.
16 March 2017
Make art about truth and lies.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Judge Not
13 March 2017
I unfriended someone this morning on social media, a woman who leads with her “I’m a Christian” banner, but who daily and consistently posts things that are disparaging to others, about people and groups of people with whom I know personally she has little actual experience. She’s older, and has limited life experience, so I had alternately either ignored her ignorance or had tried, gently, to share my own experiences with the people she judged. Her fear, it seems, runs too deep. But this morning, as she posted multiple things mocking and denigrating millennials, I was just done.
Am I judging her? Maybe. I’ll think on that. Pray on it too. But for now, her persistent fear and judgment of people about whom she is ignorant are not something I want in my life every day.
Make art about judging, about judging through ignorance, or–be brave!–educate yourself on someone you have previously judged.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Getting Lost, and Finding Home
11 March 2017
Spent the day lost in a book.
Make art about being lost in a good way.
12 March 2017
Dreamt a future conversation with my grandson, where we talked about what it meant to create home wherever you are, that our true home is what we carry inside us, from our experiences, from the ancestors. He nodded solemnly, as if he already knew this.
Make art about where home is, or how we create home.
Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Two Today: Wildness, & A Call for Political Poetry
WILDNESS: Call for Submissions
Submissions accepted year-round.
WILDNESS is an online literary journal that seeks to promote contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that evokes the unknown. Founded in 2015, each thoughtfully compiled issue strives to unearth the works of both established and up-and-coming writers. For submission guidelines visitreadwildness.com/submitor email submissions@readwildness.com.
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Apalachee Review: Call for Political Poetry
Deadline: April 15, 2017
The Apalachee Review is currently seeking poetry submissions for our 67th issue. Alongside regular submissions, we are seeking poems for a special political poetry section. We’re looking for dynamic pieces regarding democracy, identity, politics, social justice, and other areas of political concern. Please send 3-6 poems with an SASE to Apalachee Review, Special Political Poetry Section, PO Box 10469, Tallahassee, FL 32302. For further submission details, please check our website: apalacheereview.org.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Hello From the Other Side
10 March 2017
Make art about messages from the other side.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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