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Some Call for Submissions Love <3 Elsewhere: Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry,

elsewhere is an online magazine that publishes every two months, publishing prose poetry, flash fiction and non-fiction.

From the elsewhere website: 

elsewhere cares only about the line / no line. We want short prose works (flash fiction, prose poetry, nonfiction) that cross, blur, and/or mutilate genre. We publish six writers and one photo quarterly. Give us your homeless, your animals, your lunch money: we’re hungry.

Prose Poetry

up to 3 pieces of unlineated prose poetry, any length. up to two essays in a single document, each less than 1,000 words.

Flash Fiction

up to two stories in a single document, each less than 1,000 words.

Nonfiction

up to two essays in a single document, each less than 1,000 words.

Photography

submit up to 3 photographs for consideration as a cover image in JPG or PNG format. landscape orientation required, original size 3000px x 1700px minimum.

 

Website

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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

 

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

Friday Call for Submissions Love x 2: Pithead Chapel

Pithead Chapel

Call for Submissions: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Prose Poetry

“Pithead Chapel is a monthly online journal of fiction,
nonfiction, and prose poetry. While many magazines and journals close
during the spring and summer, we’re open year-round.”

Visit www.pitheadchapel.com for detailed submission guidelines.

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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

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

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

Daily Prompt Love <3 When I Ask Why

6 June 2017

Make art inspired by this. 

poor

 

Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up<3 Locks and Space

4 June 2017

Make art about locks, locking things in, locking things out, unlocking locks. 

locks

 

5 June 2017

Something I’m still learning, still working on. 

Make art about making space for the unknown, the yet to come. 

making-space

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