"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

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New Reading Series for Virginia Womxn Writers! Please Share!

Please share with your Virginia writing community! Thanks!
 
Womxn at Red Door 104: Words and Art
 
a new reading series created to celebrate Virginia womxn writers, is a partnership between Creative Writing at Longwood University and Red Door 104, a unique gallery and art learning center owned and operated by the tireless and talented Audrey Sullivan, in historic downtown Farmville,Virginia.
 
The series will consist of two events annually:
 
A reading and reception in April 2020, with two featured readers and five cameo readers.
 
All selected readers will then also have the unique and exciting experience of having visual art created by central Virginia artists in response to their submitted work. This art will be revealed in a second event, an art opening at Red Door 104 the following October.
 
The first Womxn at Red Door 104 reading will take place from 2-4 pm on Saturday, April 4, 2020. The art opening will take place in October 2020, date tba.
 
Selected writers must be available to read in person, and should be willing to attend both events. Submissions are limited to current Virginia residents.
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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Petigru Review

Call for Submissions: The Petigru Review

Deadline: July 31, 2019

 

The Petigru Review, an online literary journal sponsored by the South Carolina Writers Association, is open for submissions.

“We accept high quality and engaging fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and flash, as well as craft essays and reviews for our website. We look forward to reading your work!”

Submit here: thepetigrureview.com/submissions-guidelines/ 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 YFBD

14 June 2019 

“Stay true to it, Missy. Don’t doubt it. YFBD, baby. Your first best destiny.” -John Little Bear Eaton

Make art about your first best destiny, about finding and trusting the path you were born for, about believing and following your heart. 

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2019 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, fiction, freedom, Gratitude, healing, Love, nonfiction, One Love, peace, poetry, prompts, Writing, Writing Prompts

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Refugee

“Like the refugee, poetry’s margin, its zero yield, its nothing, will have an essential role to play in what comes next. It is a “yes” to existence in the time of disaster, an affirmation of possibility when all else seems lost.”–Robert Fernandez

Make art about refugees. 

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Image by kai kalhh from Pixabay

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2019 Prompts, activism, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Dreams, Family, fiction, freedom, healing, Love, nonfiction, One Love, peace, poetry, prompts, resistance, Writing, Writing Prompts

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A Special Call for Submissions! A New Reading Series! Womxn at Red Door 104!

A Reading Series Celebrating Virginia Women, Woman-Identifying, Genderfluid, Genderqueer, & Nonbinary-Identifying Writers

Womxn at Red Door 104: Words and Art, a new reading series created to celebrate Virginia womxn writers, is a partnership between Creative Writing at Longwood University and Red Door 104, a unique gallery and art learning center owned and operated by the tireless and talented Audrey Sullivan,  in historic downtown Farmville,Virginia.

The series will consist of two events annually:

  • A reading and reception in April 2020, with two featured readers and five cameo readers.
  • All selected readers will then also have the unique and exciting experience of having visual art created by central Virginia artists in response to their submitted work. This art will be revealed in a second event, an art opening at Red Door 104 the following October.

The first Womxn at Red Door 104 reading will take place from 2-4 pm on Saturday, April 4, 2020. The art opening will take place in October 2020, date tba.

Submissions open 1 July 2019.  Submit writing samples and a 50-75 word bio via Submittable.  Submissions are limited to current Virginia residents.

For more details, see our website here!

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Daily Prompt Love <3 She

11 June 2019

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

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Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

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2019 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Family, fiction, freedom, Gratitude, healing, Love, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, prompts, Writing, Writing Prompts

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Monday Must Read! Dark Roots by Caroline Malone

Caroline Malone was born and lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee.  A graduate of The University of Tennessee with a B.A. in English and Classics, she earned the MFA in Writing and Literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her poems have appeared in Boulevard, The Dos Passos Review, Women’s Voices, Women Period, Heartwood, and others. The collection Dark Roots explores the meaning of family, heritage, and identity. Currently, she teaches writing and literature at South College in Knoxville, TN. She also plays Irish traditional music on the bouzouki, mandolin, guitar, concertina, and fiddle.

Purchase Dark Roots Here!

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“Stark and haunting, these poems dig deep to the roots of identity and the self.”–Julia Watts, author of Gifted and Talented

“I know how things sink in;” drawing deeply from the ancient land, the collective soul that hums beneath her feet, and in her words, Caroline Malone does, indeed, know, and reveals to us that knowing, of fear and prayer and loss, of the paths we make to seek—and find—our own souls, even when they seem to flee from us, into the history of the secret city of Oak Ridge, to the rubble at the feet of the Parthenon, into the arms of the Civil War ghosts who linger at the shoulders of every Southerner. -Mary Carroll-Hackett, author of (Un)Hinged, Death for Beginners, A Little Blood, A Little Rain, and The Night I Heard Everything.

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Daily Prompt Love <3 In the Stars

10 June 2019 

Make art about starlight, about what you see written in the stars.

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Image by James Wheeler from Pixabay

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2019 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, fiction, Gratitude, Love, Nature, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, prompts, Writing, Writing Prompts

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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. 

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2019 Prompts, activism, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, fiction, freedom, healing, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, prompts, resistance, Writing

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Frailty

8 June 2019 

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

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2019 Prompts, animals, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, fiction, freedom, Gratitude, Nature, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, prompts, Writing, Writing Prompts

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