"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 ‘Gratitude’

Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Sometimes the Prompt Is All About What You Believe

 

6 August 2016

Time with my daughter, son-in-law, and that miraculous GrandPerson. Looking into my grandson’s eyes, I can see eternity ❤

Make art about what you see in a child’s eyes.

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7 August 2016

Love coming home to find tomatoes ripening to red, okra reaching fingers to the sky, even those last cucumbers still making their climb up the trellis 🙂

Deep within each one of us lies a garden.~Julie Moir Messervy

Make art about the garden that lies within you.

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8 August 2016

Had the chance today to spend time with my sister and a beautiful cousin I haven’t seen in years. So good for my heart!

Make art about extended family.

Crickett and Sherrie and me

9 August 2016

Thinking on this today.

Make art about the power of belief.

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Monday Must Read! Jerry D. Mathes II: Fever and Guts: A Symphony

Had a chance to see my sister and a beautiful cousin I haven’t seen in years yesterday, so we’re a day late, but I promise this writer is worth the wait! 🙂 

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jerry-mathes-author-photoThis week meet Jerry D. Mathes II, author of Fever and Guts: A Symphony, Ahead of the Flaming Front (winner of the North American Book Award), The Journal West, Fall in the Borderland, and the forthcoming collection of short stories, Shipwrecks and Other Stories. Jerry is a Jack Kent Cooke alumnus and is also the author of Still Life: A Novella, winner of the Meadow Prize for the Novella. His photography, poems, essays, and short stories, have won numerous awards. In 2011, he produced a short film, “Drinking Sangria in the Cold War,” which was adapted from one of his award winning short stories. He has worked as a martial arts instructor, an armor crewman, a construction worker, hotel auditor, car salesman, repo-man, delivery guy, cable guy, went logging, worked in forestry, crewed on several types of fishing vessels, fought wildfire on a helicopter-rappel crew, taught writing at the University of Idaho and Stephen F. Austin State University and taught the Southernmost Writers Workshop in the World at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Antarctica during the 2009-2010 and 2011-2012 Austral summer seasons where he worked in logistics. He also wrote and directed two short films while at the South Pole. In 2012 he produced a video essay about wildfire. He loves his two daughters very much.

Jerry’s Website

http://jdmathes.com/

Buy Jerry’s Books!

Pre-Order Shipwrecks and Other Stories!

https://www.amazon.com/Shipwrecks-other-Stories-Jerry-Mathes/dp/1622881338

Fever and Guts: A Symphony

https://www.amazon.com/Fever-Guts-Symphony-Jerry-Mathes/dp/1936205858/

Ahead of the Flaming Front

http://caxtonpress.com/aheadoftheflamingfrontalifeonfire.aspx

Fall in the Borderland

https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=1015

Read More from Jerry Online

http://www.narrativemagazine.com/authors/jerry-d-mathes-ii

https://thesunmagazine.org/_media/article/pdf/436_Mathes.pdf

https://www.guernicamag.com/daily/jerry-d-mathes-ii-three-easter-sundays/

http://www.snreview.org/0108Mathes.html

http://www.boxcarpoetry.com/009/mathes_jerry_001.html

https://spaceslitmag.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/in-fire/

Jerry on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/user/jdmathes

 

Happy Reading!

Xo

Mary

 

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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Cactus Elbow

Cactus Elbow Call for Submissions Volume 2

Deadline: Rolling

 

“Send us your lovely words! We are looking for poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, translations, humor, political satire, flash fiction, flash creative nonfiction, memoir, cross-genre, photography, and artwork in most mediums. This journal does not accept genre such as romance, mystery, or sci-fi. However, we do accept dystopian fiction. We love to see the artistic skills and tackle box (syntax, diction, tone) of a writer always, and usually we enjoy writing for a social issue, because we know you have your opinions, too. We are escapists, but sometimes we want to be realists.”

Their website: https://cactuselbow.com/

Please email submissions to cactuselbow@gmail.com

 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Sometimes the Prompt is an Ice Cream Memory, or a Soft Sparkle in the Dark

 

2 August 2016

Bought my great-nephew his own ice cream maker and together we made his first homemade ice cream. He declared it was “the best ever!” 

Make art about an ice cream memory. 

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3 August 2016

Had a great conversation with Road Angel Casey, who left her job at Duke University to start a small organic farm, selling vegetables and flowers, nut butters and preserves from a roadside stand.

Make art about taking the risk to grow a dream.

 

 

4 August 2016

A woman at a gas station came running toward me, smiling and waving and yelling, “Donna! Donna! I haven’t seen you in so long!” I smiled, shaking my head, waiting for her to realize that I wasn’t Donna after all. As she reached me, her face fell, and she looked so embarraassed, and I said, “I’m sorry.” She laughed and said, “No, I’m sorry. I could’ve sworn–” She laughed. I said, “I’m Mary, but I bet you could find Donna, if you looked. Have you tried Facebook?” I told her about finding my friend Lynne again after many years, and how blessed we both felt. She said, “I haven’t looked for her, but I think I will.” She left smiling, and I finished pumping my gas, climbing back into my car, wishing, for just a second, I had been Donna, this friend who brought such a smile to the woman’s face.

Make art about mistaken identity. Or about finding that wonderful friend again.

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5 August 2016

Dreamt I was in a crowded park handing out sparklers. So many sparklers, so many people. Before too long, the park was shimmering with light and color.

Make art about ways of sharing Light.

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Gettin Elemental

 

30 July 2016

Finally got started on my summer canning.

Make art about preserving something.

canning

31 July 2016

“We move to find what we cannot see”~David Wagoner

Make art about forms of blindness.

blindness

 

1 August 2016

Earth. Air. Fire. Water.

Make art about an elemental force.

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Monday Must Read! Marie Manilla: The Patron Saint of Ugly

 

marie manillaThis week meet Marie Manilla, author The Patron Saint of Ugly, winner of the Weatherford Award. Her novel Shrapnel received the Fred Bonnie Award for Best First Novel. Still Life with Plums: Short Stories was a finalist for both The Weatherford Award and ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year. Marie is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in The Chicago Tribune, Prairie Schooner, Mississippi Review, Calyx, SouthWrit Large, and other journals. She’s also an incredibly kind and generous person.

 

Visit Marie’s Website Here: http://www.mariemanilla.com/

 

Buy Marie’s Beautiful Books!

The Patron Saint of Ugly

https://www.amazon.com/Patron-Saint-Ugly-Marie-Manilla/dp/0544146247/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470053896&sr=8-1&keywords=patron+saint+of+ugly

 

Still Life With Plums: Short Stories

http://www.wvupressonline.com/manilla_still_life_with_plums_9781933202600

 

Shrapnel

https://www.amazon.com/Shrapnel-Marie-Manilla/dp/1579660843/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470054659&sr=8-1&keywords=shrapnel+marie+manilla

 

More from Marie Online

http://tetheredbyletters.com/fronline-short-story-laser-beam/

http://www.cleavermagazine.com/belle-fleur-by-marie-manilla/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNVI2ki_6KE

http://wvupressonline.com/author_bio/manilla

http://monkeybicycle.net/dragonfly/

http://dev.writersdojo.org/author/mariemanilla/

 

Interviews, Reviews, and Blogs

http://www.mariemanilla.com/interviewsreviewsblogs.htm

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Daily Prompt <3 You Know…That Woman

29 July 2016 

Mama always said I came into the world asking forgiveness instead of permission. 

Make art about fearless women. 

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Call For Submissions Love <3 Lumina: Borders and Boundaries

LUMINA, Vol. XVI: Borders and Boundaries

Deadline: September 15, 2016

 

We are looking for bold, beautiful, and new interpretations of all the ways we interface with borders and boundaries in our world: travel, immigration, maps, gender, sexuality, love, citizenship, race, the physical body, language, death, the interior vs. the exterior, atmospheric layers, psychological barriers, prisons, fences, rules and relationships, challenging the boundaries among genres, and anything else this theme conjures up.

Lumina website: luminajournal.com

 

Full Submissions Guidelines here: https://luminajournal.com/submission-guidelines/

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Windows, Thirst, and Falling in Love

 

26 July 2016

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.” ― Edith Wharton

Make art about a window opening.

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27 July 2016

“Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater imperative.”―Yann Martel, Life of Pi

Make art about what you thirst for.

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28 July 2016

Make art about falling in Love with the world, even—especially–when it seems to be at its most heartbreaking, when it seems too difficult to Love.

fall in love with the world

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Thresholds and John Donne

24 July 2016

Liminal (adj.)

“of or pertaining to a threshold,” 1884, from Latin limen “threshold, cross-piece, sill” (see limit (n.)) + -al (1). Related: Liminality.

Definition: occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.

Make art about being on a threshold, being in a liminal space.

liminal space

25 July 2016

“Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.”~John Donne

Make art about being your own palace, or about the world as a jail. 

 

 

 

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