Yay! Publication in one of my favorite journals!
So thrilled to be included in the Journal of Compressed Creative Arts from Matter Press 🙂 Thanks to the editors and rock on!
Posts tagged ‘Mary Carroll-Hackett’
A Lil Something Published at Life in 10 Minutes
Thanks to Valley for including me at Life in 10 Minutes 🙂
http://www.lifein10minutes.com/your-10/2015/8/11/brother-bill
Bonus Prompt <3 For My Best Friend
8/11/2015 Bonus Prompt ❤
My baby brother Bill was my best friend in this life. He would have been 46 today. I miss him every moment. Make art about best friends.
Sometimes the Prompt Is the Poem Is the Song
Woke up hearing someone singing this 🙂 So just had to share ❤
Daily Prompt
“We are stardust. We are golden”~Joni Mitchell
Make art about cosmic origins. Or the origin of the cosmos.
Monday Must Read! Ellen Hagan: Hemisphere and Crowned
Monday Must Read!
This weeek, meet Ellen Hagan, writer, performer, and educator. Her latest collection of poetry Hemisphere was released from Northwestern University Press, Spring 2015. Ellen’s poems and essays can be found in the pages of Creative Nonfiction, Underwired Magazine, She Walks in Beauty (edited by Caroline Kennedy), Huizache, Small Batch, and Southern Sin. Her first collection of poetry, Crowned was published by Sawyer House Press in 2010.
Ellen recently joined the poetry faculty at West Virginia Wesleyan in their low-residency MFA program. She teaches Memoir, Poetry & Nature, and co-leads the Alice Hoffman Young Writer’s Retreat at Adelphi University. She is Poetry Chair of the DreamYard Project. A proud Kentucky writer, Ellen is a member of the Affrilachian Poets, Conjure Women, and is co-founder of the girlstory collective. She lives with her husband and daughters in New York City.
Website
Buy Local
Hemisphere: Poems | IndieBound
Review
BOOK: Ellen Hagan’s ‘Hemisphere’ – LEO Weekly
Duende Literary Magazine
I Been Thinkin…Daily Prompt <3
Daily Prompt
I keep thinkin this mornin about day to day wonder…
Make art about the mythology of ordinary life.
Friday Call for Submissions Love! Sediments Literary-Arts Journal
Friday Call for Submissions Love!
Sediments Literary-Arts Journal
About
Sediments Literary-Arts Journal is a quarterly online literary journal that features work from new and emerging writers and artists as well as the established ones who inspire them. We understand how hard it is to get that first publication under your belt. The process can sometimes be disheartening. Unsure of what publishers really want, new artists can be blown with the wind, changing their aesthetic and losing their passion in order to conform to standards they think publishers want. Here at Sediments, we provide a platform where you can deposit your artistic style. We want your submissions to be compelling, thought-provoking, and force us to question our reality. We love diversity, and we are obsessed with controversy. Help us build a rock of unpublished artists whose voices are finally scratching the surface of the literary sphere. We accept poetry, flash fiction, short stories, and art.
Submit to Sediments
Sediments Literary-Arts Journal accepts poetry, short stories, and art. Accepted work will be published to the homepage every Sunday at 11AM, as well as be collected into a quarterly, digital zine. View previous issues here.
What We Want…
Art
- Please submit your paintings, illustrations, drawings, digital media, photography, etc.
- You may submit up to 15 pieces. We most likely will select more than one, and we want a lot to choose from.
- Include your preferred name, third-person biography, the preferred title(s) of your piece(s), and the medium you used (photography, acrylic on canvas, etc.) in your cover letter.
- Artwork should be high-resolution digital copies.
- Images of your artwork must be in jpeg, png, or tiff format.
- All submitted artwork will automatically be considered for the cover art of that issue.
Poetry
- Please submit 3-5 poems of any length (keeping in mind that shorter poems have a higher chance of being published) in ONE Word document (DOC or DOCX only).
- Separate ONE poem per page.
- We’d love to see prose/narrative or lyrical poems and poems that experiment with form.
- Submit your poems about anything. We accept poems on a variety of topics, humorous or serious. We’re not against love poems, but give those love poems some edge, something we’ve never seen before!
Fiction
- Please submit ONE short story up to 3,500 words or no more than THREE flash fiction pieces up to 1,000 words each.
- Flash fiction pieces should be in ONE document. Each story should start on a new page.
- Submit your fiction in Word documents only (DOC or DOCX).
- Your pieces should be well-written, adult literary fiction.
- Although we welcome genres like science fiction, horror, fantasy, and even erotica, your stories should be written within the scope of adult literary fiction with elements of the aforementioned genres very subtle.
- Formatting should be in 12-point Times New Roman or a font that is easy to read, with one-inch margins and double-spaced.
- Please include the word count in the top left-hand margin of the first page.
Read Current Issue of Sediments Literary-Arts Journal: http://sedimentslit.com/project-type/issue-four/
Hey Artists! HeartWood wants to hear from you!
Hey Artists! HeartWood wants to hear from you!
Check out the guidelines for our
Appalachian Arts Interviews
We also welcome queries from Appalachian artists (writers, visual artists, musicians, performers, folk artists, etc) interested in being included in our Appalachian Arts section. We define Appalachian artists as an artist who is heavily influenced by the Appalachian region and its traditions, history, and people. At HeartWood, we are looking for artists who take these traditions and speak to them in a new and unexpected way.
To query about possible inclusion in the Appalachian Arts section: Submit the following in one document (doc, docx) through the Appalachian Arts link on our Submittable page:
- Artist bio
- Artist statement addressing what being an “Appalachian artist” means to you, how you uniquely define yourself as an Appalachian artist, and how your connection to Appalachia as you see/define it connects (or doesn’t) to your work.
- At least one link to where artwork or samples can be seen/heard (artist website, other publications, YouTube, etc).
If we’re interested, based on the query, editors will email requesting additional information and work sample.
Complete guidelines here:
A VERY Special Special Call for Submissions: HeartWood: Getting to the Heart of the Matter
Why is this one special special?
Because in the company of an amazing group of people, this Call for Submissions is coming directly from me!
😀
Allow me to introduce
HeartWood
an online literary journal in association with West Virginia Wesleyan’s Low-Residency MFA program, publishes twice yearly, in April and October. Our inaugural issue will go live April 2016.
General Submissions
We accept submissions year round through Submittable, and welcome previously unpublished poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, from both established and emerging writers.
What We Want:
We are interested in writing that pushes into, dares to reveal, its own truth, that takes emotional risks, that gets to the heart of the matter.
Simultaneous submissions are fine, provided you notify us if the work is accepted elsewhere.
We also welcome queries from Appalachian artists (writers, visual artists, musicians, performers, folk artists, etc) interested in being included in our Appalachian Arts section.
Submission Details
Prose submissions, fiction or nonfiction, should be 3000 words or less.
Fiction: Fiction submissions may include short stories, flash fiction, or novel excerpts if the excerpt can stand alone. You may submit more than one piece of flash fiction, as long as the total word count does not exceed 3000 words.
Creative Nonfiction: We’re open to a wide range of nonfiction, with the exception of academic articles, or that which would be considered more traditionally journalistic. Personal essay, memoir, lyric, literary journalism, or some blurring in between, are all acceptable.
Poetry: Poets should submit no more than 3-5 single-spaced poems at a time. Include all poems in a single document for upload. Lyric, narrative, experimental, we’re open to all variations of the poetic voice.
Surprise us. Make us think. Make us feel. Make our hearts race.
Appalachian Arts Interviews
We also welcome queries from Appalachian artists (writers, visual artists, musicians, performers, folk artists, etc) interested in being included in our Appalachian Arts section. We define Appalachian artists as an artist who is heavily influenced by the Appalachian region and its traditions, history, and people. At HeartWood, we are looking for artists who take these traditions and speak to them in a new and unexpected way.
To query about possible inclusion in the Appalachian Arts section: Submit the following in one document (doc, docx) through the Appalachian Arts link on our Submittable page:
- Artist bio
- Artist statement addressing what being an “Appalachian artist” means to you, how you uniquely define yourself as an Appalachian artist, and how your connection to Appalachia as you see/define it connects (or doesn’t) to your work.
- At least one link to where artwork or samples can be seen/heard (artist website, other publications, YouTube, etc).
If we’re interested, based on the query, editors will email requesting additional information and work sample.
What We’ll Do
Submissions will be responded to within three months. If you haven’t heard from us after three months, feel free to inquire by sending us a note through Submittable.
If your work is accepted, HeartWood acquires first North American rights. All rights revert to the author upon publication, but we do ask for first publication attribution in any future publications. We also reserve the right to include accepted pieces in any future anthologies or promotions.
If we have passed on a submission, please wait 6 months before submitting again.
Submit here:
http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/submit/
Write on! We can’t wait to hear from you!
Two New Publications :-) Grateful to Generous Editors
My house concert tour isn’t over, but has been put on hold while my oldest sister, a tiny fierce woman named Andrea but whom we call Crickett because she’s only 4’9 and quick as all get out 🙂 and who has worked as a nurse for more than forty years, primarily attending to those at the end of their journey, those tender hands midwifing soul after soul after soul into the next life, has been battling cancer herself. Twelve years older than me, she wagged that little finger at me, touting her position as ‘the elder’ in our family now, and told me I ‘better not be neglecting that writin!’ So, while my travel has been limited mostly to running back and forth from Virginia to North Carolina, I have been sending these crazy lil prose pomes out into the world.
“A Chant Against Lonely” at Josephine Quarterly (This poem will be included in my book, A Little Blood, A Little Rain, coming out from FutureCycle Press in 2016)
http://issuu.com/josephinequarterly/docs/summer_2015_issue/5?e=6563413%2F14573219
The Girl Who Read the Land” at Sediments Literary-Arts Journal (This poem is included in my most recent book, The Night I Heard Everything, available now from FutureCycle Press)
http://sedimentslit.com/portfolio/the-girl-who-read-the-land-mary-carroll-hackett/
I’m very grateful to the kind editors who have made homes for some of them. ❤
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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