"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 ‘nonfiction’

Sometimes the Prompt Opens Us Up

Daily Prompt
 
Harvard Launches Free Online Class To Promote Religious Literacy
 
Make art about tolerance.
 

Friday Call For Submissions Love <3 Uproot

UPROOT

Uproot is a literary journal housed at the University of Illinois Springfield whose main interest lies in place–more specifically, moving from place to place. We’re interested in geological and emotional estrangement, displacement, alienation, longing, and all of the other contradictory feelings associated with moving to a new/old location. We want to read and share literature that challenges notions of genre, work that pulls you up by the roots and plants you somewhere else, somewhere unexpected.

General Submission Guidelines:
We are especially interested in hybrid works, including flash fiction, prose poetry, and the lyric essay. Our only limitation is that submissions fall under 5,000 words and contain no more than 6 individual works.
Please submit work as either .doc/.docx file or PDF file as attachments.
We do not accept work that has been copied and pasted into the body of an email.
Please submit a brief 60 word bio written in the 3rd person.
Please send only original, unpublished work.
We do accept simultaneous submissions.
If your work has been published elsewhere please let us know so we can retract your submission.
We do not accept multiple submissions. We will only accept one submission per person per submission window.

Current submission window for next issue is 2/5/16-3/5/16.
Please send submissions to uprootmagATgmailDOTcom

UPROOT Website: https://uprootmag.wordpress.com/

Sometimes You Have To Give the Prompt Away

Daily Prompt 

“I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.”~Kahlil Gibran

Just wrote an email to a famous person on behalf of a former student, not at the student’s request, but just because i believe the student’s amazing and if nothing else, I can put the kid’s name in front of someone, And yeah it’s a totally idealistic shot in the dark, but what the hey? Lifetime mantra: The worst they can do is tell me No, right? And if they do, then I’m no worse off than I was before I asked. 🙂 

Survival tip #1 for me? When the moment feels darkest, do something good and loving for someone else. That’s what brings the Light ❤

Make art about healing through generosity. 

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Sometimes the Prompt Sets You Free

Daily Prompt
 
“I am in love, hence free to live by heart”~Vera Pavlova
 
Make art about freedom.
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Sometimes the Day IS the Poem

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Sometimes the Prompt Takes You Far From Home

Daily Prompt

“Never a prophet in your own land.”~Luke 4:24

Make art about a modern-day prophet. 

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Sometimes the Prompt Leaves Muddy Footprints

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Make art about a wet dog.

Sometimes the Prompt Makes You Crazy :-)

Daily Prompt 

Another snow day here, and one of my pups is already feeling like she’s been inside too long 🙂

Make art about Cabin Fever.

cabin fever

Sometimes the Prompt Is the Heart of It All

Valentine Prompt 🙂 from a favorite poem by a favorite poet ❤
 
“The heart shifts shape of its own accord—from bird to ax, from pinwheel
to budded branch”~Dorianne Laux
 
Make art about the heart.
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Sometimes the Prompt Has To Come Off

Daily Prompt

Don’t you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask?”~Søren Kierkegaard

Make art about masks.

masksannoymous

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