Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3
11/8/2016
Make art about hard choices.
11/9/2016
Make art about not learning the lessons of history.
11/10/2016
Make art about Love as Resistance.
Posts tagged ‘poet’
Special Call for Submissions <3 New Journal: The Trump Years–"We need to document this."
The Trump Years is a literary magazine dedicated to documenting this country’s years under Donald Trump. Please send 2-4 poems or under 2,000 words of anything else to trumpyears@gmail.com.
We particularly look forward to submissions from women, people of color, people who identify as LGBT, people with disabilities, and others who are underrepresented in publishing.
We need, somehow, to document this.
And because I feel like squawking–Some Call for Submissions Love
Thanks to Paul McVeigh for sharing this call.
Squawk Back seeks Fiction, Poetry & Creative Non-fiction
“Send any materials that you wish to have considered for publication in (the) Squawk Back—preferably as attachments in .doc, .rtf, .txt, or .odt format; or copy-pasted in the body of an email—but under no circumstances as .wps files or PDFs, and preferably not .docx’s—to…..
We read year round. All first-time submitters will hear back from us within two weeks. Those previously published in Squawk Back will wait a bit longer, as their submissions do, unfortunately, go to the bottom of a pile, owing to that we try very hard to feature new contributors in every issue.
We primarily publish fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. We do not publish plays or screenplays, but we may consider monologues. We will consider excerpts from unpublished novels, poetry collections &c, but please do not submit entire books.
No individual prose submission should exceed ten-thousand words in length. For submitters of poems, we’d prefer it if you kept it under ten pieces per submission. Multiple-poem submissions go in one document or are pasted into the body of one email.
Upon acceptance for publication, submitted pieces which appear in their entirety on personal blogs either Must Be Removed from those pages or replaced with excerpts and/or links to their new home in Squawk Back.
Upon submitting your work, you hereby grant (the) Squawk Back a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable license to use, reproduce, distribute, modify and display your content for any purpose, including without limitation promoting and redistributing part or all of the site. Works submitted to Squawk Back, whether officially or unofficially copyrighted, will remain the full intellectual property of their authors. We are far less interested in exploiting emergent literary voices than providing them with a louder box with which to squawk.”
Daily Prompt Love <3 Better Angels
11/7/2016
“I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”–Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, Monday, March 4, 1861
Make art about the better angels of our nature (’cause we sure need ’em now).
Weekend Prompt Love <3
11/5/2016
Make art about turning around, going back.
11/6/2016
Make art about slipping away.
Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Claudius Seeks Writing, Photography, Painting, and Illustration
CLAUDIUS SPEAKS
Bold Art. Powerful Writing. New Voices
A literary journal seeking submissions of personal essays, narrative nonfiction, poetry, photography, painting, and illustration.
“We welcome submissions of exceptional, previously unpublished poetry, non-fiction essays, paintings, illustrations and photographs. We have no content restrictions; we only ask that you send your best, most polished and wholly original work to us. For special themed issues, we ask that your content reflect the theme as interpreted through your artistic lens.We are a platform for emerging voices to challenge the mind and move the heart.”
View the latest theme and submission instructions on their website: claudiusspeaks.com
Detailed Submission Guidelines here:
Daily Prompt Love <3 Mapping It All Out
4 November 2016
I love my GPS, but I also love my old school Atlas Map. Make art about maps, mapping, or going off the map.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Finally! 24 New Creativity-Inspiring Prompts!
And hopefully I’m back on track with these 🙂 ❤ Love y’all!
10/10/2016
Make art about buried treasure.
10/11/2016
Make art about working toward a goal.
10/12/2016
Make art about the sound of walking.
10/13/2016
Make art about frailty.
10/14/2016
Make art about a youngest child, that last child.
10/15/2016
Make art about what’s revealed in the moonlight.
10/16/2016
Make art about birds on a wire.
10/17/2016
Make art about going back in time.
10/18/2016
Make art about leaving an inheritance, or receiving one, on what’s inherited.
10/19/2016
My mama used to quote the Bible, saying, “Never a prophet in your own land.” Make art inspired by this quote.
10/20/2016
Make art about transitions.
10/21/2016
I really want to take a ceramics class. Make art about what you want to learn.
10/22/2016
Make art about excavation, literal or metaphorical.
10/23/2016
Canning apples for days. Make art about the fruits of autumn.
10/24/2016
Make art about every day angel encounters.
10/25/2016
Make art about the sacredness of water.
10/26/2016
Make art about making a trip home.
10/27/2016
Make art about what kind of road your heart would be.
10/28/2016
“When born, you inherit what’s burning.”~Liam Rector Make art inspired by this quote.
10/29/2016
Make art about night driving.
10/30/2016
A friend came across an old painting that looks just like me. Make art about doppelgangers.
10/31/2016
I set out food for the ancestors, cornmeal and milk for the wee folk, lit a fire and watched it burn. Make art about ancient traditions.
11/1/2016
Sometimes the sorrow is so deep, all I know to do is cook. Make art about process sorrow in an unexpected way.
11/2/2016
Make art consoling, receiving, or giving, consolation.
11/3/2016
Make art about feeling paralyzed.
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Back to the daily daily tomorrow!
Monday Must Read! Gabrielle Brant Freeman, When She Was Bad
And we’re back—with the amazing Gabrielle Brant Freeman, author of the stunning debut collection When She Was Bad. Gabrielle’s poetry has been published in many journals, most recently in Barrelhouse, Hobart, Melancholy Hyperbole, Rappahannock Review, storySouth, and Waxwing. She was nominated twice for the Best of the Net, and she was a 2014 finalist. Gabrielle won the 2015 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition. Press 53 published her first book, When She Was Bad, in 2016. Gabrielle earned her MFA through Converse College.
Visit Gabrielle’s Website
http://gabriellebrantfreeman.squarespace.com/
Buy Gabrielle’s Beautiful Book! At Press 53!
http://www.press53.com/Gabrielle_Brant_Freeman.html
Praise for When She Was Bad
Lust. Love. Betrayal and loyalty. Temptation and hilarity. Gabrielle Freeman dissects her speakers’ hearts, tenderly, with supreme attention to what it is to be human, female, and fierce. Gabrielle Freeman’s poems are bad–by which I mean badass bold. Michael Jackson bad. Freeman’s bad and you know it. That’s why you read her. When She Was Bad is a smart, compassionate, tightly crafted and explosive debut. — Denise Duhamel
Read More from Gabby Online
http://gabriellebrantfreeman.squarespace.com/poems-1/
http://ciderpressreview.com/tag/gabrielle-freeman/#.WBc8rdUrKM8
http://www.chagrinriverreview.com/gabrielle-freeman.html
Hear Gabby Read!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnC84HvJl94
You don’t want to miss this poet!
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Reading at Longwood this week!
Okay my Virginia lovelies!
I’m thrilled to be part of the Longwood Authors’ Reading Series, this coming Wednesday!
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 8pm
Wygal Auditorium on Longwood’s campus
Reception (Free food!) to follow.
I’ll be reading from my newest book, A Little Blood, A Little Rain, as well as The Night I Heard Everything, both from FutureCycle Press.
And maybe…. we’ll have a lil contest and give away a couple free copies of the new book! 😉
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Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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