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Monday Must Read! Diana Whitney: Wanting It

Monday Must Read!

DianaWhitneyheadshotThis week meet Diana Whitney. Diana’s first book of poetry, Wanting It, was released in 2014 by Harbor Mountain Press and became an indie bestseller. Wanting It won the Rubery International Book Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Julie Suk Award here in the US.  Diana is the poetry columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the winner of the 2015 Women’s National Book Association poetry prize, selected by Ellen Bass.  She is grateful to have received grants and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center.

Diana’s poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Crab Orchard Review, The Rumpus, Mud Season Review, and many more. Her irreverent parenting column, Spilt Milk, was syndicated for years, ran as a public radio commentary series, and is currently being collected into a risky memoir about motherhood and sexuality.  A yoga teacher by trade, Diana blogs about the darker side of mothering for The Huffington Post and runs a yoga studio in Brattleboro, Vermont, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and thirteen chickens.

Visit Diana’s website: www.diana-whitney.com

Get Diana’s book:

http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988275522/wanting-it.aspx

Reviews of Diana’s book, Wanting It:

Gulf Coast Magazine:

http://gulfcoastmag.org/online/blog/wanting-it,-a-review/

Coal Hill Review: 

http://www.coalhillreview.com/book-review-wanting-it-by-diana-whitney/

Read Diana’s work online:

New poems:

Mud Season Review

 http://mudseasonreview.com/2015/07/poetry-issue-11/

One: Jacar Press

http://one.jacarpress.com/?s=Diana+Whitney#Diana%20Whitney

Book Reviews:

http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Poetry-John-Burnside-Jane-Hirshfield-Rebecca-6401935.php

Essays:

http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2013/08/10/kissing-essay-diana-whitney/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diana-whitney/raising-a-rock-star_b_5888600.html

Author interviews:

http://mudseasonreview.com/2015/07/you-never-know-when-youre-working/

http://www.penparentis.org/interview-with-poet-diana-whitney/

 

Happy reading!

xo

Mary

 

 

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Sometimes the Dream Is the Prompt :-) and the Poem

8/23/2015

Daily Prompt

Last night I dreamt of so so many shining spoons, too many spoons to choose from 🙂 Someone I love stood at my side and laughed indulgently at my excitement about all of those spoons LOL

Make art about spoons. 🙂

spoons

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! Dare. Clockhouse: Risk. Dream. Share.

 

Friday Call for Submissions Love! 

Clockhouse

About

Dare. Risk. Dream. Share. Ruminate.
How do we understand our place in the world, our responsibility to it, and our responsibility to each other? Clockhouse is an eclectic conversation about the work-in-progress of life—a soul arousal, a testing ground, a new community, a call for change. Join in.

Guidelines
Clockhouse accepts works of poetry, fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, and dramatic works for stage or screen. We encourage submissions from both established and emerging writers.

All submissions must:
  • Be original, unpublished work written by the author
  • Follow the industry-standard formatting guidelines appropriate for the genre as well as the applicable guidelines below:
    • Fiction: Short stories and self-contained novel excerpts in a literary style. Genre fiction will be considered only if it sustains literary merit (Up to 5,000 words)
    • Poetry: All poetry in traditional and experimental styles including prose poetry (Up to 250 lines)
    • Memoir and Creative Nonfiction: All memoir and creative nonfiction in traditional and experimental literary styles. No academic or scientific essays (Up to 5,000 words)
    • Dramatic Work for Stage or Screen: Short dramatic works in traditional and experimental styles, either a standalone piece or an excerpt from a one-act or full length play or screenplay (Up to 15 pages)
  • Include a short bio of approximately 100 words or less
  • Include a brief artist statement: a few sentences about your work as an artist (i.e., not a “pitch” for this submission, but rather a statement about what you’re interested in writing about now, what drives your writing, or how your writing is reflecting or influencing the world at large, etc.)
  • Be submitted only through our online submission manager (see link at bottom of page). No email submissions will be accepted

Submissions that do not follow these guidelines will be discarded unread.

Submission period for the Summer 2016 issue opens on August 15, 2015 and closes at 11:59 p.m. on December 1, 2015.

See more at Clockhouse website: http://clockhouse.net/main/

 

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New Writing Workshop! Writing the Forgotten Feminine

So excited! 🙂 Along with the fabulous MeLaina Elise Ramos​, I’m thrilled to be offering a brand new writing workshop! At the beach!

Writing the Forgotten Feminine:
Giving Voice to the Disregarded, Unsung, or Silenced Woman

A One-Day Writing Workshop in beautiful Grandview Beach, Hampton, VA 23664
September 19, 2015, 9am-5pm

Whether you’re drawn to the women left out of history books or that aunt in the family no one speaks of, or even your own woman-self, subverted, forgotten, or neglected in the demands of work, parenting, or relationships, the feminine voice is one of complexity, knowing, and power that spans all of human history.

And we want to hear it ring!

Join us for a gathering in which the mystery, the humor, the wisdom, and especially the strength of the feminine voice is celebrated and empowered.

Led by two women writers at different stages in their own work and lives, but who share a deep respect and interest in reclaiming the voices of forgotten or silenced women, this workshop will include readings on and by women who’ve been left out, as well as tons of prompts and exercises specifically designed to help you tap into and strengthen the feminine voice in your writing.

and….we cook for you! Lunch is included 🙂

$75 includes one-day workshop, tons of prompts and exercises, a take-away packet of reading and resource materials, and gifts created just for you.

If interested, email at vaprlover@gmail.com & carrollhackettma@gmail.com for details.

Please share!

surreal woman

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Poetic and Visual Prompt :-) ‘Cause I’m Obsessed with Them Layers

8/19/2015

Daily Prompt

“The brain, like the earth, lies in layers”~Patricia Kirkpatrick

Make art about layers, literal or metaphorical, or use structural imagery and build a piece of art–poem, painting, essay, story–itself in layers.

layers-of-paint

 

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Monday Must Read! Therése Halscheid: Frozen Latitudes

 

Monday Must Read! 

Therése HalscheidThis week, meet Therése Halscheid. Therése’s new book Frozen Latitudes (Press 53), won the Eric Hoffer Book Award, HM for Poetry. Other collections include Uncommon Geography,Without Home, Powertalk, and a Greatest Hits chapbook award.

Her poems and essays have appeared in many journals, among them The Gettysburg Review,Tampa Review, Crab Orchard Review, Natural Bridge.

By way of house-sitting, she has lived the life of an itinerant writer. Her travels have taken her from a swamp in the Florida Panhandle to the Arctic north of Alaska, where she lived with and taught an Eskimo Inupiaq tribe.

Visit Therése’s website: www.ThereseHalscheid.com

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Writing Prompts

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! Oyez Review

Friday Call for Submissions Love!

Oyez Review

Submissions Now live!

Submission Guidelines

Oyez Review accepts previously unpublished submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction,poetry, and art. There are no restrictions on style, theme, or subject matter. Oyez Reviewis open for submissions from August 1st to October 1st each year, but please check each genre category, as certain genres may close earlier than others. The journal seeks First North American Serial Rights on all submissions, in addition to the requisite digital rights to distribute each issue of the journal as an e-book. Simultaneous submissions in any category are not accepted.

Format

All Manuscripts:

  • Standard font and font size.

  • 8.5″ x 11″ white paper is preferred.


Fiction and Creative Nonfiction:

  • Typed and double-spaced.

  • No strict length restrictions, but because of space limitations, we are unlikely to publish manuscripts longer than 15-20 pages (4,500-5,500 words).

Poetry:

  • Up to five poems, not to exceed ten pages total.

Art:

We feature one visual artist per issue, whose work appears on the front and back covers of the magazine and in an eight-page spread at the magazine’s center. We feature both color and black-and-white work. Please send us a thoughtful sampling of about thirty high-resolution images. We cannot consider work less than 300 dpi. We prefer to receive your work via Submittable, but if you are submitting by mail, please send your art on a CD or a flash drive, and be sure to include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Do not send original artworks.


How To Submit

The annual reading period is August 1 through October 1. Submissions received before or after this period will be returned unread. Simultaneous submissions and previously published work will not be considered.

  • Or you can send your work via snail mail:

Oyez Review
Attn: Janet Wondra
Department of Literature & Languages
Roosevelt University
430 S. Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60605

If submitting via postal mail, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope with sufficient postage for reply.


Need to get in touch?
If you have any additional questions, e-mail at: oyezreview@roosevelt.edu

Oyez Review Website: https://oyezreview.wordpress.com/

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Special Thursday Call for Submissions :-) Shapeshifting

Little Patuxent Review

Seeking Works that Witness Shape Shifting

Submissions

Little Patuxent Review will accept submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and artwork for the Winter 2016 Myth issue.

Mythology both shapes and reflects culture—forming a bridge between individual and universal experience. How do you cross the bridge from past to present—or from individual to universal? How do you travel the mythic quality of life? LPR seeks works that witness shape shifting in micro and macro ways. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel prize in literature suggests: “The writer who shuts himself up in a room and goes on a journey inside will, over the years, discover literature’s eternal rule; he/she must have the artistry to tell their own stories as if they were other people’s stories, and to tell other people’s stories as their own…”

Submissions are open from August 1, 2015 to October 24, 2015.

Little Patuxent Review is a community-based publication focused on writers and artists from the Mid-Atlantic region, but all excellent work originating in the United States will be considered.

Although our issues are organized around themes, we allow considerable leeway in how contributors interpret them in order to ensure access to the broadest range of high-quality work.

Submissions details here: http://littlepatuxentreview.org/

 

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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!

Not the Bloom

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