"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 Catch-Up <3 Saying Thank You, Adult Children, & Peace

17 June 2017

Received several thank you emails from my online students today when our class finished. They never understand, I don’t think, how much I have to thank them for ❤

Create a thank you note (written, visual, musical, etc.) to someone else, someone who doesn’t realize how much gratitude your feel for them.

Thank+you+notes

18 June 2017

My son came home this weekend, to celebrate Father’s Day with me 🙂 He says since I’ve been both mother and father, I get to celebrate both days. My mama always joked, If you can stand them til they’re twenty-two, you’ll get them back as friends. 🙂 I am so grateful for those kids, my three closest friends ❤ 

Make art about children as friends. 

friends

19 June 2017

Make art about peacemakers, about working to heal division.

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Monday Must Read! Juneteenth, Ralph Ellison

How desperately we need Ellison’s wisdom now.

Juneteenth is Ralph Ellison‘s second novel, published posthumously in 1999 as a 368-page condensation of over 2000 pages written by him over a period of forty years. It was originally written without any real organization, and Ellison’s longtime friend, biographer and critic John F. Callahan put the novel together, editing it in the way he thought Ellison would want it to be written.

“Ellison’s literary executor, John Callahan, has now quarried a smaller, more coherent work from all that raw material. Gone are the epic proportions that Ellison so clearly envisioned. Instead, Juneteenth revolves around just two characters: Adam Sunraider, a white, race-baiting New England senator, and Alonzo “Daddy” Hickman, a black Baptist minister who turns out to have a paradoxical (and paternal) relationship to his opposite number. As the book opens, Sunraider is delivering a typically bigoted peroration on the Senate floor when he’s peppered by an assassin’s bullets. Mortally wounded, he summons the elderly Hickman to his bedside. There the two commence a journey into their shared past, which (unlike the rest of 1950s America) represents a true model of racial integration.”

Buy Juneteenth: A Novel

Learn the History of Juneteenth Here

Juneteenth

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Thanks and Love to the Talented and Generous Teri Lee Kline

16 June 2017

Make art inspired by a song that made you cry, that brought you to real tears. 

 

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 All About Some Love and Joy–Gotta Be, In These Dark Days

14 June 2017

Make art about ways of finding (re-finding) your joy.

find your joy

 

15 June 2017

Make art about taking a risk on Love. 

risk to love

 

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Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Carnivals, Weeds, and a Fistful of Stars

10 June 2017

Accompanied my daughter and son-in-law today for that GrandPerson’s first trip to a fair.

Make art inspired by a fair, or carnival.

Max Merry Go Round 2

11 June 2017

Traveling on back roads today, my favorite way to get anywhere.

Make art about back roads, country lanes, two-lane blacktops cutting through nothing but countryside.

12 June 2017

Grading and gardening day.

Make art about pulling weeds, about weeding things out.

pulling weeds

13 June 2017

Dreamt someone I love brought me a gift.

Make art about a fistful of stars.

hand filled with light

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2017 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Dreams, Family, fiction, freedom, Gratitude, Love, Music, Nature, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Together We Can

9 June 2017

I’m so excited! Going to be entering into a new creative collaboration with a dear friend. 

Make art about working with others, about the benefits of collaboration. 

collaboration

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2017 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Family, fiction, Gratitude, Love, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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Daily Prompt Love <3 To Bear Witness

8 June 2017

bear witness

  1.  to show that something exists or is true —+ to His success bears witness to the value of hard work. Rising ticket sales bear witness to the band’s popularity.

  2. formal :  to make a statement saying that one saw or knows something asked to bear witness to the facts She was asked to bear witness at the trial.

Make art about what it means to bear witness. 

Testify

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Special Mid-Week Call for Submissions Love <3 Streetlight Magazine Contest Seeking Essays

Streetlight Mag Essay Contest
 
“We are seeking strong and stirring personal
stories–maximum 800 words. Winning entries
will be published in the summer issue of Streetlight
magazine on July 14, 2017 and may be produced
as a podcast on Streetlight Voices. All entries
will be considered for general publication.”
 
Deadline for entries is July 1st, 2017 (midnight EST).
Entry fee: $10
Enter at: streetlightmag.com/essaymemoir-contest/
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Daily Prompt Love <3 Yes, Please

7 June 2017

Feeling my Southern mama at my shoulder. 

Make art about manners, having them, learning them, lacking them, using them in difficult situations. 

manners

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Daily Prompt Love <3 When I Ask Why

6 June 2017

Make art inspired by this. 

poor

 

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