"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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100s of Writing and Creativity Prompts!

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Don’t forget to check out the hundreds of writing and creativity prompts here on the Writing Prompts Page!

Pass it on! The more beauty we bring to this troubled world the better!

https://marycarrollhackett.com/writing-prompts/

Daily Prompt Catch-Up!

11/14/2015

Met up with sweet friends to commemorate the anniversary of my brother’s death. Make art about a difficult anniversary.

11/15/2015

House filled with family, and ghosts. Make art about what haunts you.

11/16/2015

“I once was a child am a child am someone’s child”~Victoria Chang

Make art about feeling like a child.

 

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! Posit: A Journal of Literature & Art

Friday Call for Submissions Love! 

Posit: A Journal of Literature & Art 

Posit considers submissions between September 1st and May 31st, via Submittable.

Posit publishes four issues per year of finely crafted contemporary literary and visual art. Due to the large number of excellent submissions we receive, we are currently reading for publication in mid- and late- 2016. We are looking for innovation, aesthetic vision, and accomplished craftsmanship. Our tastes are non-sectarian, with an interest in the experimental. We accept simultaneous submissions, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

Posit considers only unpublished written work, and acquires first-time North American rights upon publication. Thereafter, all rights revert to the author, and the work may be reprinted as long as appropriate acknowledgement to Posit is made. No such restrictions apply to visual art submissions.

  • Poetry: 3-6 poems, no line limits, but no epics, please.
  • Fiction and hybrids: 1000 words or less.
  • Visual Art: Please submit six to twelve jpeg images, an inventory list, an artist’s statement and a one-paragraph bio.
  • Film and animation: no longer than 3 minutes, please.

See Posit’s website for complete details.

 

Sometimes the Prompt Never Ends

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“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.”~Henry David Thoreau
 
Make art about things eternal.
 
(Photo by my late husband John Little Bear Eaton)
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Sometimes the Prompt Goes On and On

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“When the singer’s gone Let the song go on”~Art Garfunkle
 
Make art about the persistence of Love.
 
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Sometimes the Prompt is Unsung

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“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell

Make art about heroism, about heroes.

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Sometimes the Prompt is on Fire

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“When born you inherit what’s burning.”~Liam Rector Tattooed on my right arm. Considering the courage of the activists at University of Missouri.

Make art about protest.

 

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Another New Journal Seeking Submissions for Inaugural Issue: Courtship of Winds!

The Courtship Of Winds

Submissions accepted year-round.

“It goes without saying that we are looking to publish the best work. For details regarding submissions and a sense of the editorial direction of The Courtship of Winds go towww.thecourtshipofwinds.org.

We are interested in publishing “unknowns,” as well as well-established writers. A writer who has published absolutely nothing will be read the same way as a prize-winning “name” writer. Work that does something not seen before or, more to the point, makes us see differently—call it avant-garde, experimental, or what you like—is always welcome.”

 

Sometimes the Prompt Just Makes Good Sense

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“After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things”~Wallace Stevens
 
Make art about the practicality of autumn.
 
#writingprompt #art #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #wordsmatter
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Sometimes the Prompt Really Hurts My Heart

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Spent the day workin on a meal planning/shopping/cooking tutorial for some of my students who struggle with making their food dollars stretch.

In 2014:

46.7 million people (14.8 percent) were in poverty.
15.5 million (21.1 percent) children under the age of 18 were in poverty.
4.6 million (10 percent) seniors 65 and older were in poverty.
The overall poverty rate according to the Supplemental Poverty Measure is 15.3 percent, as compared with the official poverty rate of 14.8 percent.[ii]
Under the Supplemental Poverty Measure, there are 48.4 million people living in poverty, nearly 2 million more than are represented by the official poverty measure (46.7 million).

48.1 million Americans lived in food insecure households, including 32.8 million adults and 15.3 million children.

And this doesn’t even begin to touch the problems of global hunger.

Make art about literal, physical, hunger.

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