"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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Sometimes the Prompt Is Born of Sadness

Daily Prompt
 
“Call it a night. O soul. Flow on. Instead.”~CD Wright
 
Make art about the eternal flow.
cosmic flow

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Special Mid-Week Call for Submissions: Red Savina Review: Depth & Spirit

Red Savina Review

Open to Submissions for Spring

“We believe in concepts such as existential noir, depth, and spirit.”

Submissions accepted year-round.

RSR is seeking general submissions of poetry, flash fiction, and flash creative nonfiction for their upcoming Spring 2016 issue.

Guidelines: www.redsavinareview.org/submit-2/

“Surprise us: We like writing that challenges you, the writer: writing that drags you out of your comfort zone, refuses to stroke your sense of self-esteem, writing that DARES you to let it have its say. Send us polished but evocative work. We like your truth, raw, authentic, brave, witty, thought-provoking, edgy, bold and spicy. We are partial to borderland themes just as we are to the red savina habanero but do not discriminate against other hot peppers or regions. If you happen to be fond of ghost peppers and live in Maine, as long as your love of language is authentic, give us a try. It’s not who you know or where you go, it is what you write. An exploration of the meaning of authenticity is key, no matter where you live, what you look like, or where you went to school.”

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They are also seeking poetry submissions to their Denise Levertov Memorial Poetry Prize

Deadline: March 21, 2016. Fee: Only $8.00 entry.

Entries judged by RSR Poetry Editors. Prize: $250.

More info:

www.redsavinareview.org/the-denise-levertov-memorial-poetry-prize/

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Sometimes the Prompt Makes You Roll the Dice

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“One always has to be willing to lose to be able to win… in battle and in life. I wonder. Are you willing to lose?”~Christie Rich
 
Make art about taking a gamble. Or about being willing to lose.
gamble

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Sometimes You Let the Prompt Go

Daily Prompt
 
Letting em go 🙂
 
Make art about releasing expectations.
 
expectation

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2016 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Gratitude, Writing Prompts

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Daily Prompt Catch Up! Get That Creativity On!

Away for a weekend manuscript consultation, so now we’re back to prompting! 🙂 

1/9/2016

Snuggled up in the comfort of the beautiful Porches Writers Retreat. Make art about making a retreat.

1/10/2016

After days of winter rain, the clouds have gone, revealing blue blue sky. Make art about clearing skies.

1/11/2016

“Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.” G.K. Chesterton Make art inspired by a thrift store find.

 

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Monday Must Read! Sarah Nichols: Edie (Whispering)

Monday Must Read!

sarah nichols monday must readThis week meet Sarah Nichols, a writer living in Connecticut. Her chapbook, Edie (Whispering): Poems from Grey Gardens, was recently published by dancing girl press. Her first book, The Country of No, was published in 2012 by Finishing Line Press. Her poem, “My Stepmother Responds to My Recovered Memory,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Thank You for Swallowing. Her poems have also appeared inYellow Chair Review, Found Poetry Review, Right Hand Pointing, and Porkbelly Press’s Emily Anthology (2015).

Links to Sarah’s beautiful books

Edie (Whispering)(dancing girl press): Edie (Whispering): Poems from Grey Gardens | Sarah Nichols

Country of No (Finishing Line Press) https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=971

Read Sarah’s work online

“My Stepmother Responds to My Recovered Memory,” thankyouforswallowing.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/my-stepmother-responds-to-my-recovered-memory

“Batman’s Wife,” Yellow Chair Review: Yellow Chair Review – Pop Culture Issue 2015  (Pg. 60)

“The Secret,” Found Poetry Review, Volume Eight:volumeeight.foundpoetryreview.com/855

“Smoke Horse,” in Right Hand Pointing: www.righthandpointing.net/#!sarah-nichols/ci1b

Interview with Sarah

http://www.nicolerollender.com/carpe-noctem-blog/chapbook-interview-with-sarah-nichols

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

 

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Friday Call For Submissions! Love Me Some Wildness :-)

 

WILDNESS

An Online Literary Journal

“Wildness wants work that evokes the unknown.

The lostness; the distance.

WE WANT STORIES THAT LINGER JUST OUT OF REACH.

We want to follow you into the blue that’s nestled inside your dreams.”

Guidelines

PUBLICATION CYCLE

We publish our online edition every two months. A print anthology will be released once a year.

EDITORIAL PROCESS

We aim to reply with either an acceptance or rejection within one month of submission. Please query if it has been longer.

 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We work on a rolling submissions basis.

There is no minimum length for poetry and prose, but please keep stories under 2,500 words and each poem under 80 lines. Please send us a short bio (written in third person) with your name and a little bit about you.

You can send your work in .doc or .pdf files.

OTHER DETAILS

Submissions must be original work and you must own all rights. The owner of the work retains all copyright. We currently only accept unpublished works; this includes website and personal blogs.

Submit via email to: submissions@readwildness.com

Wildness website: http://readwildness.com/

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Sometimes The Prompt Just Begins To Fall

Daily Prompt

“This, then, is the gift the world has given me/(you have given me)/softly the snow”~Diana Di Prima

Make art with first snow as the central metaphor.

snowflake

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Editing & Critique Services

Got book?

Via mail or face to face at The Porches, I offer a range of editing and consulting services for writers.

Let’s work together to make your beautiful work even better!

Details here!

Editing/Consultation Services

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Very Special Call for Submissions

Very Special Call for Submissions

HIV Here & Now

from publisher Michael H. Broder 

It’s that time again. The submission and solicitation wells are dry. The HIV Here & Now Project WEBSITE needs new work FAST (I have nothing for today, for example, let alone the next 152 days). NEW OR PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED poems or short (up to 500 words) prose pieces. By any poet regardless of HIV status. Preferably touching on HIV in some way shape or form, even if metaphorical. Our key advocacy themes are testing, treatment, prevention, dispelling shame, and eliminating stigma. You can really use any of those ideas as a way into a poem that never even mentions HIV or AIDS. Or just any pieces you think would work on the site. You’re a poet! Use your imagination!!

While I appreciate the dedication, please do not submit if your work has already appeared on the site; we are trying not to repeat poets or writers.

Send work to michael@indolentbooks.com. Include a face pic and a brief bio emphasizing your publications.

Previous HIV Here & Now Project poets and writers, please solicit one poet or writer directly, post this on your timelines and share with your groups and other social networks. (I’ll tag 20 of you each week.)
http://www.hivhereandnow.com

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