"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 ‘writer activism’

Daily Prompt Love <3 Surprise

17 June 2019 

Make art about what you’ve got up your sleeve. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Fire & Ice

15 June 2019 

“I was born in a forked-tongued story,/Raised up by merchants and drugstore liars./Now I walk on the paths of glory,/One foot in ice, one in fire.”–from “The Mountain” by Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer 

Make art about fire and ice. 

fire &amp; ice

Image by Jonny Lindner from Pixabay

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 She

11 June 2019

Make art about the wisdom of old women, about the dangerous old woman. 

old woman

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

Daily Prompt Love <3 Not So Blind After All

9 June 2019 

Make art about injustice, about the flaws in our justice system, about a moment of fighting injustice. 

injustice

Daily Prompt Love <3 Frailty

8 June 2019 

Make art about the fragility of life, the precarious balance, the delicate dance, of staying alive. 

fragile life

Image by GLady from Pixabay

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Underground

3 June 2019 

Make art about the underground, about what’s underground, about being underground, about underground action, societies, or resistance.

underground

Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Poetry, Body

25 May 2019

“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.” — Walt Whitman

Make art about the poetry of the body. 

dancers

Image by Pexels from Pixabay

 

Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 About Place

About Place Journal Call for Submissions: Infinite Country

Deadline: August 1, 2019

Each issue of About Place Journal, the arts publication of the Black Earth Institute, focuses on a specific theme.

“From 6/1 to 8/1 we’ll be accepting submissions for our Fall 2019 issue Infinite Country: Deepening Our Connection to Place, Culture and One Another. Our mission: to have art address the causes of spirit, earth, and society; to protect the earth; and to build a more just and interconnected world. We publish prose, poetry, visual art, photography, video, and music which fit the current theme.”

More about this issue’s theme and submission guidelines can be found at   aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/.

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Tear Em Down

22 May 2019 

Make art about tearing down walls. 

walls

K’in Spotlight! Jonathan Corcoran, Author of The Rope Swing

K’in Spotlight! Choosing To Love or Run ❤
Check out Dave Magill’s excellent interview with Jon Corcoran. 
Jonathan Corcoran is the author of the story collection, The Rope Swing, which was named a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards and long-listed for The Story Prize. His stories have been anthologized in Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia and Best Gay Stories 2017. He received a BA in Literary Arts from Brown University and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Rutgers University-Newark. Jonathan teaches writing at Rutgers and serves as a Visiting Writer in the low-residency MFA program at West Virginia Wesleyan College. He was born and raised in a small town in West Virginia and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
 
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