8 August 2017
Make art about heat rising, literal or metaphorical.
9 August 2017
Make art about the smell of soil.
10 August 2017
Make art about what you see in an animal’s eyes.
11 August 2017
It’s my brother Bill’s birthday. He would have been 48.
Make art about brotherly love, about real acts of brotherly love.
12 August 2017
Make art leaning in, about what it means to you to lean in.
13 August 2017
Make art struggling to remember a dream.
14 August 2017
Make art about putting things away.
15 August 2017
Make art about struggling to stand.
16 August 2017
Make art about the sound of children singing.
17 August 2017
Make art about what you see in the sky.
18 August 2017
Make art about reaching for something.
19 August 2017
Make art about standing with strangers.
20 August 2017
Make art about a braggart who needs to be the center of attention.
21 August 2017
Make art inspired by the old meanings of the word eclipse: an abandonment, a failing, a forsaking.
22 August 2017
Make art about a moment you were blind.
23 August 2017
Make art about placing that call you’ve dreaded making.
24 August 2017
Make art about bullets.
25 August 2017
Make art about an instance in which you countered hate with Love.
26 August 2017
Make art about the first signs of autumn coming.
27 August 2017
Make art about the art of the apology.
28 August 2017
Make art about cooking together.
29 August 2017
Make art about learning to cry.
30 August 2017
Make art about a secret you carry.
31 August 2017
Make art about what’s being whispered.
1 September 2017
Make art inspired by a gray silk sky.
6 June 2017
Make art about what the moon says.
7 June 2017
Make art about what you see in the water.
Cat Pleska is a seventh generation West Virginian, and an amazingly loving and generous person. She is the author of Riding on Comets, and most recently, she published a cookbook with a sense of humor, One Foot in the Gravy–Hooked on the Sauce. Cat is a writer, editor, educator, publisher, and storyteller. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College. She is an essayist for West Virginia Public Radio and a book reviewer for the Charleston Gazette. She coedited the anthology Fed from the Blade: Tales and Poems from the Mountains. Pleska has been published in literary magazines and newspapers throughout the Appalachian region. She lives in Scott Depot, West Virginia, with her husband, Dan, one dog, four cats, and with a daughter, Katie, in nearby St. Albans.
Buy Cat’s Books!
Praise for Riding on Comets
“The gifts of Cat Pleska’s Riding on Comets are many: it is fresh, candid, gently humorous, tautly lyrical, and deeply moving.”-Lisa Knopp, What the River Carries: Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte
This is a storyteller who knows how to piece together shards of story into a brilliant mosaic of a life. A joy to read.”–Janice Gary is the author of Short Leash: A Memoir of Dog Walking and Deliverance, winner of two Silver 2014 Nautilus Awards and a 2014 Eric Hoffer Prize for Memoir.
Cat Pleska’s restrained but graceful prose allows us to witness four generations through the eyes of the author, first as a child and then through the years that followed as her people live, age, and die. The details Pleska offers have the immediacy of truths well told, with a resolute eye and spacious heart, neither shying away from family and personal dysfunction, nor sentimentalizing the bonds of fear and love that held her family together.”–Geoffrey Cameron Fuller is an author of the true crime Pretty Little Killers and the crime thriller Full Bone Moon
One Foot in the Gravy–Hooked on the Sauce
More from Cat Online
http://www.friedchickenandcoffee.com/2016/04/27/reckoning-fiction-by-cat-pleska/
https://www.catpleska.com/interviews-reviews-blogs/
http://www.rednecromancer.typepad.com/mouth_of_the_holler/
https://pocahontastimes.com/memories-to-memoirs/
http://www.lauratreacybentley.com/apps/blog/entries/show/41683985-spotlight-cat-pleska
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Solidago Journal is open for submissions!
“We’re looking for prose, poetry, and art for our Fall 2017 issue. The theme is TRADITION, and our cover image (to which we also invite responses) can be found on our website (link below). We can’t pay our contributors, but all contributors will receive a complimentary copy of our print edition. No submission fee. We look forward to reading your work!”
Website: http://www.solidagojournal.com/
Submissions: http://www.solidagojournal.com/submissions/
4 August 2017
“The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.” ― Erin Hunter
Make art about borders, about living at the borders, about crossing borders, about the illusion of borders.
3 August 2017
Make art about trust, trusting, not trusting, broken trust, building, breaking, or rebuilding trust.
1 August 2017
(ĕl′ĭ-gəns)
n.
Refinement, grace, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.
Tasteful opulence in form, decoration, or presentation.
Restraint and grace of style.
Make art about the elegance of the natural world.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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