"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 ‘Writing as Resistance’

Daily Prompt Love <3 Asking

20 October 2017

Make art about what we really want to ask, but don’t. 

what we want to ask

Daily Prompt Love <3 Quickening

19 October 2017

Make art about acceleration. 

acceleration

15 Brand New Prompts! Join Us for a Mini Marathon in Writing Prompt Group on Facebook

Because We Need to Make Art Mini Promptathon 

Art is healing. Art is voice. Art is power. Art is resistance. Art is claiming. Art is reclaiming.

Art is Creation, instead of destruction. Let’s create.  Join us in the Better-Than-Black-Friday Writing Group for 15 New Prompts! 

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Some Diversity Call for Submissions Love <3 Let Us Gather: Diversity and the Arts at Nimrod International Journal 

Call for Submissions: Diversity and the Arts

Deadline: November 5, 2017

 

For their Spring/Summer 2018 issue, Let Us Gather: Diversity and the ArtsNimrod International Journal is seeking poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction pieces that explore or demonstrate the idea of the arts as a gathering place for diverse and unique perspectives. 

“We also invite writing that addresses and confronts the times when the arts have not been as diverse as they could be—including the present. Poetry may be up to 8 pages; fiction/creative nonfiction may be up to 7,500 words.

Manuscripts may be mailed or submitted online:  nimrodjournal.submittable.com/submit.

For complete guidelines, email nimrod@utulsa.edu or visit our website: www.utulsa.edu/nimrod.

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15 Brand New Prompts! Join Us for a Mini Marathon in Writing Prompt Group on Facebook

 

Because We Need to Make Art Mini Promptathon 

Art is healing. Art is voice. Art is power. Art is resistance. Art is claiming. Art is reclaiming.

Art is Creation, instead of destruction. Let’s create.  Join us in the Better-Than-Black-Friday Writing Group for 15 New Prompts! 

Art Is Meme

 

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Assault

15 October 2017

Make art about assault, about experiencing assault, about surviving being assaulted. 

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Daily Prompt Love x 2

13 October 2017

Make art about superstition. 

superstition

14 October 2017

My youngest turns twenty-three today. Happy Birthday, Dean! 

Make art about youngest children. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 The Route You Take

12 October 2017

Make art about or inspired by the route you take every day. 

route

Daily Prompt Love <3 What We Inherit

10 October 2017

Make art inspired by this quote: 

When born you inherit what’s burning.~Liam Rector 

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Monday Must Read! Rachel Dacus: Gods of Water and Air

rachel dacusRachel Abramson Dacus is a writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area and the author of three poetry books and a spoken word poetry CD. Her most recent book, Gods of Water and Air, combines poetry, prose, and drama. It follows two poetry collections, Earth Lessons and Femme au ChapeauGods of Water and Air is a passionate exploration of personal transformation, delving into everything from reincarnation to growing up with an artist and rocket scientist father, to living in an immigrant community on the Pacific Ocean.

Praise for Gods of Water and Air

This is a book to relish for such insights, by a poet clearly up for the ride, and not afraid of the risks.” — Rhina Espaillat, author of Where Horizons Go

Visit Rachel’s Website

Buy Rachel’s Beautiful Books

Gods of Water and Air

Femme Au Chapeau

Earth Lessons

More from Rachel Online

http://www.coriummagazine.com/?page_id=630

http://ithacalit.com/rachel-dacus.html

http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/47/dacus.html

http://one.jacarpress.com/issue-9/

https://blueheronreview.com/2017/09/01/the-september-2017-blue-heron-speaks-featured-author-is-rachel-dacus/

https://panoplyzine.com/the-third-wish-new-dawn-rachel-dacus/

 

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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