"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 life’

Daily Prompt Love <3 Reach

8 May 2019 

Make art about what you’re reaching for. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 This Way

7 May 2019 

Make art about the exit, about making an exit, about exit strategies, about exit wounds. 

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Monday Must Read! Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly

Beth Ann Fennelly, Poet Laureate of Mississippi, teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Mississippi, where she was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year. She’s won grants and awards from the N.E.A., the United States Artists, a Pushcart, and a Fulbright to Brazil. Beth Ann has published six books–three of poetry: Open HouseTender Hooks, and Unmentionables, all with W. W. Norton. Beth Ann’s poetry has been in over fifty anthologies, including Best American Poetry 1996, 2005, and 2006, The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Poets of the New Century, and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, and in textbooks such as Contemporary American Poetry and Literature.

In recent years, Beth Ann’s written more prose. A book of essays, Great With Child: Letters to a Young Mother, was published by Norton in 2006. In 2013, Beth Ann and her husband, Tom Franklin, co-authored a novel, The Tilted World, published by HarperCollins and set during the 1927 flood of the Mississippi River.  Her sixth book, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-memoirs, recently published by W. W. Norton, was named an Atlanta Journal Constitution Best Book of 2017 and a Goodreaders Favorite for 2017.

Visit Beth Ann’s website here

Buy Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-memoirs here

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About Heating & Cooling

The 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating & Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived life, combining the compression of poetry with the truth-telling of nonfiction into one heartfelt, celebratory book. Ranging from childhood recollections to quirky cultural observations, these micro-memoirs build on one another to arrive at a portrait of Beth Ann Fennelly as a wife, mother, writer, and deeply original observer of life’s challenges and joys. Some pieces are wistful, some wry, and many reveal the humor buried in our everyday interactions. Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs shapes a life from unexpectedly illuminating moments, and awakens us to these moments as they appear in the margins of our lives.

Daily Prompt Love <3 That Question

 
6 May 2019 
Make art asking the question you’ve been afraid to ask. 
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Image by Prawny from Pixabay

Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3

5 May 2019 
Make art about what’s underfoot. 
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Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 In the Break

4 May 2019

Make art about the interruption, the pause, about what happened in the break. 
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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Split Rock Review

Split Rock Review Seeks Submissions for Issue 13

Deadline: May 31, 2019

Split Rock Review, an online biannual journal, provides a venue for writers and artists of any background, in any stage of their careers, to showcase their best work.

“We are seeking poetry, short creative nonfiction (1,000 words or less), graphic narratives, comics, artwork, and photography for Issue 13 (Fall 2019). We prefer work that explores place, environment, and the intersection of nature and culture. Please read our back issues to get a better idea of the work we publish. Simultaneous submissions are welcome.”

For more information and guidelines, please visit: www.splitrockreview.org.

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Go

3 May 2019 

Make art about time travel. Where/when would you go? 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Chill

2 May 2019 

Make art about relaxation, about the difficulty, or the benefits, or learning to really relax. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Generosity

1 May 2019 

Make art about generosity, about generosity received, about the rewards of generosity. 

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