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December 28, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt Is a Change
“In the space between chaos and shape there is another chance.”~Jeannette Winterson
Make art about rising to the challenge of change.
December 27, 2015
Monday Must Read: Jonathan K. Rice: Killing Time
This week meet Jonathan K. Rice. Jonathan is founding editor/publisher of Iodine Poetry Journal, which is in its sixteenth year of publication. His latest poetry collection is Killing Time (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2015). He is also the author of Shooting Pool with a Cellist (Main Street Rag, 2003) and Ukulele and Other Poems (Main Street Rag, 2006). His poetry has appeared in many periodicals, including The Aurorean, Blue Unicorn, CharlotteViewpoint, Cold Mountain Review, Comstock Review, Ekphrasis, Eunoia Review, Gargoyle, Kakalak, Kentucky Review, Main Street Rag, O. Henry Magazine, Pedestal, Sacred Journey, San Pedro River Review, Slipstream, Sundog: A Southeast Review and The Southern Poetry Anthology VII: North Carolina. He has been a longtime host of poetry readings in Charlotte, NC, where he lives with his family, and is the recipient of the 2012 Irene Blair Honeycutt Legacy Award for outstanding service in support of local and regional writers, awarded by Central Piedmont Community College.
Jonathan is also a visual artist. His work has been featured as cover art on several books. His art has also appeared in the online magazines The Pedestal, Referential Magazine, Red Headed Stepchild, Levure Litteraire, The Inflectionist Review and Empty Mirror. He was the featured artist in the spring 2015 issue of Apogee Magazine, the literary arts magazine of High Point University.
He has had solo exhibits at Jackson’s Java, Vin Master, Wingmaker Arts Collaborative, The Peculiar Rabbit, University of North Carolina Charlotte Student Union Gallery, the Pennington-McIntyre Gallery on the campus of Cleveland Community College in Shelby, NC and the New South Gallery and Studios in Statesville, NC. His art has also been included in a number of group exhibits in galleries such as Hart-Witzen, Green Rice Gallery, Max L. Jackson Gallery at Queens University Charlotte, Studio K (Charlotte, NC), Mooresville Art Depot (Mooresville, NC), Gallery 102 (Lancaster, SC), Art in the Village (Ballantyne Village in Charlotte, NC), Fanjoy-Labrenz (Hickory, NC) and Gallery Twenty-Two (Charlotte, NC). Jonathan’s work is in many private collections and businesses.
Jonathan’s Artist website:
Buy Jonathan’s books at Main Street Rag Publishing:
http://mainstreetragbookstore.com/?product=killing-time
http://mainstreetragbookstore.com/?product=ukulele-and-other-poems
http://mainstreetragbookstore.com/?product=shooting-pool-with-a-cellist
Read Jonathan’s beautiful poetry online:
http://www.kentuckyreview.org/index.php/issues2/rk2014menu/item/212-ricebio
http://referentialmagazine.com/contributors/p-r/jonathan-k-rice/
https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2014/02/08/want-2/
http://www.charlotteviewpoint.org/article/3181/Rearranging
See Jonathan’s beautiful art online:
http://inflectionism.com/previous.htm (The Inflectionist Review, Number 3)
http://levurelitteraire.com/jonathan-k-rice/
http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/features/visual-art/dream-sequences.html
Jonathan on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC9DTy6_iMg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh6cpnYDNQ0
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Special Sunday Call for Submissions: American Chordata :-) Illuminate!
I’ve been so busy with the holidays, but now it’s time to send some submissions out! :-) Some of these crazy lil prose poems need some homes!
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American Chordata
Deadline: January 10, 2016
American Chordata is seeking short works of original fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for its third issue. There are no formal word limits or stylistic constraints. We’re looking for work that is brave, illuminating, and emotionally detailed. We also welcome art and photography submissions. We are always accepting submissions, but the deadline for the third issue, to publish Spring 2016, is January 10, 2016. For more information, please visit our website: americanchordata.org.
Submission Guidelines
Please send us only finished work that you really believe in.
Send all submissions via email to submissions@americanchordata.org.
Use the subject line, “[Fiction / Nonfiction / Poetry / Art / Photo] Submission.”
Please include a short autobiographical note in the body of your email.
At this time we are only accepting online submissions. Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions must be in .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .txt formats. We welcome art and photography submissions in the form of low-resolution jpegs or links at which we can find the work online.
Please submit no more than 2 works of prose at a time, and no more than 6 works of poetry, art, or photography (3 if the poems are longish).
We’ll get back to you as quickly as we can, but allow up to 12 weeks for a response during reading periods.
Simultaneous submissions are fine, but we hope you’ll let us know if your work has been accepted for publication elsewhere.
If accepted for publication, we ask for first serial rights to publish and distribute your story, essay, or poem(s) in the English language, in print and electronic formats, throughout the world.
We are a small, independent magazine and regret that we cannot offer compensation for publication at this time.
American Chordata website:
Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Anticipation, Animals, and a Little Bit of Messiah Thrown In
Dec 24
Remembering being a little kid breathlessly waiting for Santa :-) Make art about anticipation.
Dec 25
Much of the work I did in papers for my Anthropology degree focused on the origins of Judaism and early Christianity, a lot of it centered around belief in a messiah, in messianic traditions. Many religions have a messiah concept, including the Jewish Messiah (from which the term and meaning originates, from the Hebrew in which the word Messiah is identical to the noun and adjectiveמשיח (mashiach), meaning Anointed One, and comes from the Hebrew verbמשח (mashah), meaning to anoint. Other messianic traditions include the Christian Christ( the Greek translation of the Hebrew root word), the Muslim Mahdi and Isa (one of the Arabic names for Jesus), the Buddhist Maitreya, the Hindu Kalki, the Zoroastrian Saoshyant and He whom God shall make manifest in Bábism (believed to be Bahá’u’lláh by Bahais). The state of the world, in most of these traditions, is seen as hopelessly flawed beyond normal human powers of correction, and divine intervention through a specially selected and supported human is seen as necessary.
Make art about saviors. Make art redefining what it might mean to be a savior. Make art about being your own savior.
Dec 26
Traveling to celebrate with family today. Make art about a family roadtrip.
Dec 27
Watching PBS nature documentaries with my son :-) Make art about the candor and ingenuity of animals.
December 23, 2015
Sometimes The Prompt Shows the Way
Loving the lights this gray rainy day.
Make art about Light.
#writingprompt #bethelight #poetry #nonfiction #fiction #wordsmatter
December 21, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt’s Right In Your Own Hands
“I thought of happiness, how it is woven
Out of the silence in the empty house each day
And how it is not sudden and it is not given
But is creation itself like the growth of a tree….”~May Sarton
Make art about making your own happiness.
Monday Must Read! Nancy Peacock: A Broom of One’s Own
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Nancy Peacock! Nancy is a mostly self-taught author. Her first novel, Life Without Water, was chosen as a New York Times Most Notable Book. She followed with a second novel, Home Across the Road. Her collection of essays on writing and housecleaning, (a personal favorite here in Mary’s house :-)) A Broom of One’s Own was published by Harper Collins. Her third novel The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson will be published in 2016 by Atria Press. Peacock has supported herself and her writing life with numerous jobs including housecleaner, bartender, carpenter, paper deliverer, assistant drum maker, costumer, baker, milker on a dairy farm, and teacher.
Nancy’s also an incredibly generous spirit, offering ongoing classes and workshops aimed at helping other writers, and she hosts a don’t-miss blog, Matginalia, filled with wonderful insight and writer wisdom.
Visit Nancy’s website:
Check Out Nancy’s Beautiful Books!
Life Without Water
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Without-Water-Nancy-Peacock/dp/0553379291
Home Across the Road
A Broom of One’s Own
http://www.harpercollins.com/9780061357879/a-broom-of-ones-own
Read Nancy’s Blog!
http://nancypeacockbooks.com/wp/
Praise for Nancy’s Work:
Publishers Weekly
http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-56352-337-3
Kirkus Reviews
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/nancy-peacock/the-life-and-times-of-persimmon-wilson/
Southern Scribe
http://www.southernscribe.com/reviews/general_fiction/Home_Across_Road.htm
Reading Group Guides:
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/reviews/life-without-water
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/reviews/home-across-the-road
Classes & Workshops
http://nancypeacockbooks.com/classes/
Happy Reading, y’all!
xo
Mary
December 20, 2015
Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Gifts & Soup & Conspiracy Theories
Dec 18
Wrapping presents :-) I’ve never before managed to have them wrapped this early LOL Make art about something kept under wraps.
Dec 19
“That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Made Garden Vegetable Soup for me and my son.
Make art about soup.
Dec 20
Read a new story this morning about someone carrying a belief in a conspiracy theory too far. Make art about conspiracy.
December 17, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt Is Left Behind For You
Just drafted a poem called The Words Mama Left Me.
Make art about inheritance.
December 16, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt Dances In Like a Gift
Dreamt the walls of my bedroom melted away and I found myself surrounded by a herd of gentle deer, with their liquid eyes and dancer feet. They nuzzled me with velvet snouts, and whispered Welcome Welcome. We picked our way through a twilight wood, until the trees opened up into broad sweet-smelling fields. And then we ran, and ran, and ran. :-)
Make art inspired by deer.
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