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Posts tagged ‘personal essay’

Daily Prompt Catch-Up! 10 New Prompts!

2 September 2017

Make art about money, having money, or not having it.

money

3 September 2017

Make art poverty of the spirit.

poverty of spirit

4 September 2017

Make art about the origin of a lie.

lies

5 September 2017

Make art about the sound of animal, a purring cat, a growling dog, the whistle of a songbird, the cry of a hawk.

Moco Talking

6 September 2017

Make art about the storm coming.

storm

 

7 September 2017

Make art about arrogance, an arrogant person, about dealing with arrogance.

arrogance

8 September 2017

Make art about preparing to leave.

leaving

9 September 2017

Make art inspired by or about water words: aquaduct, bog, creek, drizzle, fjord…

More here: 100 Words for Water: http://www.wallacejnichols.org/234/623/100-words-for-water.html

water words

10 September 2017

Make art about rescue, rescuing, being rescued.

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11 September 2017

Make art about recovery, about what that recovery means to you.

recovery

Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Tinge Magazine

TINGE Magazine

TINGE Magazine, Temple University’s online literary journal, is seeking submissions of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
T
he submission period for the next issue is open from September 1 until November 1, 2017.

Please go to tingemagazine.org for more information.

Submissions Guidelines Here

Daily Prompt Catch-Up! 25 New Prompts!

8 August 2017

Make art about heat rising, literal or metaphorical.

fire

 

 

9 August 2017

Make art about the smell of soil.

soil 2

 

10 August 2017

Make art about what you see in an animal’s eyes.

Moco Elegance

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.

bill 1

12 August 2017

Make art leaning in, about what it means to you to lean in.

leaning 2

 

 

13 August 2017

Make art struggling to remember a dream.

dreaming

14 August 2017

Make art about putting things away.

putting things away

15 August 2017

Make art about struggling to stand.

struggling to stand

16 August 2017

Make art about the sound of children singing.

singing-children

17 August 2017

Make art about what you see in the sky.

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18 August 2017

Make art about reaching for something.

reaching

19 August 2017

Make art about standing with strangers.

crowd

20 August 2017

Make art about a braggart who needs to be the center of attention.

braggart 2

21 August 2017

eclipse (n.)
c. 1300, from Old French eclipse “eclipse, darkness” (12c.), from Latin eclipsis, from Greek ekleipsis “an eclipse; an abandonment,” literally “a failing, forsaking,” from ekleipein “to forsake a usual place, fail to appear, be eclipsed,” from ek “out” (see ex-) + leipein “to leave” (from PIE root *leikw- “to leave”).

Make art inspired by the old meanings of the word eclipse: an abandonment, a failing, a forsaking.

eclipse

22 August 2017

Make art about a moment you were blind.

blind eye

23 August 2017

Make art about placing that call you’ve dreaded making.

phone call.jpg

24 August 2017

Make art about bullets.

bullets.jpeg

25 August 2017

Make art about an instance in which you countered hate with Love.

love will win

26 August 2017

Make art about the first signs of autumn coming.

leaf

27 August 2017

Make art about the art of the apology.

apology

28 August 2017

Make art about cooking together.

cooking.jpg

29 August 2017

Make art about learning to cry.

crying.png

30 August 2017

Make art about a secret you carry.

secret.jpg

31 August 2017

Make art about what’s being whispered.

whisper.jpg

1 September 2017

Make art inspired by a gray silk sky.

gray sky.jpeg

Daily Prompt Love <3 Moon and Water

6 June 2017

Make art about what the moon says.

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7 June 2017

Make art about what you see in the water.

saw yourself in the water

Monday Must Read! Cat Pleska: Riding On Comets

cat pleskaCat 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.

Cat’s Website

Buy Cat’s Books!

Riding on Comets

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

Fed from the Blade

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

Daily Prompt Love <3 Rolling In

5 August 2017 

Make art about the storm rolling in.

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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Solidago, Seeking Tradition

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/

 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Borders

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.

borders

Daily Prompt Love <3 Building or Breaking

3 August 2017

Make art about trust, trusting, not trusting, broken trust, building, breaking, or rebuilding trust. 

trust

Daily Prompt Love <3 Continue

2 August 2017

Make art about continuing. 

van gogh meme

 

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