"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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Sometimes You Have to Let the Prompt Go

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“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.”~Kahlil Gibran

Make art about releasing control.

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Sometimes the Prompt Makes You Brave

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Made myself do something I was terrified to do.
 
Make art about that moment you push through fear.
 
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Sometimes You Bump Into the Prompt

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Talking with my students about and thinking a lot about tension arising from juxtaposition.
Make art about unexpected juxtapositions.
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Sometimes the Prompt is the Ritual

9/14/2015
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“Like primitives we buried the cat with his bowl”~Jane Kenyon

Make art about burial rituals, about our need for rites.
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Sometimes the Prompt Catches You Unaware

9/13/2015 Woke up hearing the heavens singing 🙂 Had to share ❤

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“I heard an Angel singing/ When the day was springing/ Mercy Pity Peace…”~William Blake

Make art about everyday angels.

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Sometimes the Prompt Cuts Deeply

9/12/2015

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Cutting out a new skirt this morning. Love to see it emerge from the fabric, the art of cutting away. Make art about this emergence from cutting away;

or reenvision one of these old adages, making us see it in some new way:

cut out, cut off, cut bait, cut the cord, cut loose, cut to the chase, a cut above, cut and dried, cut a rug, cut and paste, unkindest cut, cut to the bone, cut and run, cut from the same cloth,cuts both ways.

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! Gravel Lit Mag Wants You to Shake Them Up

 

Friday Call for Submissions Love!

 

Gravel Literary Magazine

 

Send Your Unforgettable Work

Online submissions accepted July-May.

Gravel is accepting submissions of comics, graphics, art, photography, creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. We are publishing book reviews of newly released or forthcoming books.We are also interested in author interviews. Please don’t send us previously published work. We want work that will shake us up a bit. Work that will make us question our personal beliefs. Work that three days later will make us laugh once again. Submit here: gravel.submittable.com/submit.

 

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This magazine is produced by the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Monticello editorial staff.

 

Guidelines:

We are presently accepting original, unpublished works (including posting it on any website blog, deviant art, anywhere it can be found on the web). In particular, we are interested in fiction and creative nonfiction anywhere from 25 to 2,500 words in length, poetry (no more than 3 poems per submission, and you can submit all of them at the same time on Submittable), photo essays, artwork, comics, video, hybrid—look, we’ve got eclectic tastes here. Don’t be afraid to submit works that defy form or genre. We cannot pay you, but if it makes you feel better, we’re not getting paid either.

If your work is accepted, we will request an image that represents you (you can interpret this however you’d like) to be included with your bio.

Please keep your images below 5 MB for bios and art submissions. If for some odd reason we need a larger image, we will contact you.

We do not reprint work published elsewhere, in any form, this includes work that has been published in print magazines, blogs, or anywhere online. It’s disheartening to publish something, then realize that it is posted somewhere else.

Please do not submit new work until after you hear from us regarding your first submission. If your work is accepted for publication, please wait 6 months before submitting again. We like to showcase as many writers and artists as possible.

We do not accept submissions from current UAM MFA students.

We don’t charge our readers a fee to submit, but we get charged after we have 300 submissions. It helps us if writers submit their submissions all at once, not separately, because that can increase our operations costs.

 

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Sometimes the Prompt Tastes Like Rain

9/10/2015

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“The taste of every living thing is in the raindrop”~Afaa Michael Weaver

Make art about the taste of weather.

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Salvage, Reconstruct, and Dreams of Lace

 

Daily Prompt Catch-Up 😀 Soooo busy around here lately! LOL

9/4/2015

Lots of thinkin this week about salvage. “The wreck is a fact…The salvage trucks back in and the salvage men begin to sort and stack, whistling as they work.”~Kay Ryan Make art about salvage, or salvaging something.

 

9/5/2015

“Sink, suffer, self-destruct. Rise stronger, reconstruct”~Lamb of God Make art about reconstruction, about reconstructing from what’s left.

 

9/6/2015

Someone I love is battling cancer. Make art about illnesss or disease.

 

9/7/2015

Dreamt someone I love brought me yards of unbleached cotton and lace. Make art with flowing white fabric, or lace, or lacing as the central metaphor.

 

 

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Sometimes the Prompt is the Key :-)

9/1/2015

Dreamt someone I love gave me a ring full of keys and I gleefully skipped around unlocking and throwing open doors. 🙂

Make art about keys, about finding the key. keys

 

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