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December 4, 2015
Friday Call for Submissions Love! Conclave: Looking for Work Focused on Change
(Feb 2016 issue)
Ends on 1/15/2016
As this established literary journal changes hands, the theme for the next edition accordingly focuses on change as an inevitable force in our lives, ideally though not certainly a force for progress and growth. We’re looking for contributions relating to political and social change and well as changes in the human character. We’re looking for work that envisions the future, better tomorrows and bitter tomorrows, changes in love and life and the heart of humankind.
Conclave: A Journal of Character seeks poetry, fiction, and non-fiction of exceptional literary merit. The work we seek has a transcendent aesthetic impact on the reader. It is not merely about the mystery of being, but heightens the reader’s sense of the mystery underlying the fabric of our daily lives. We are looking for work about character or work that displays character, that holds it up to a fresh light and helps reader see what they did not see before.
We seek to be broad, inclusive, and open to perspectives spanning all spectrums of thought, ethnicity, gender identity, and sexual orientation.
We are interested in work originally written in English and work in English translation from any language. We are interested in all genres, including mixed or multiple genre works, or work that simply defies classification.
Guidelines:
1 We are an environmentally conscious journal and only accept submissions through Submittable.
2 Format and Length. Poetry: Submit 1-3 original, unpublished poems, in a single document, each poem on a separate page, no longer than 10 pages total. Short Fiction: Submit 1 story, no longer than 5000 words. Creative Nonfiction: Submit one essay, no longer than 5000 words. Photography: Submit 1-3 photographs, black and white only. Unclassifiable: No longer than 2000 words.
3 You are welcome to submit more than once, but each submission must be a separate file uploaded to Submittable.
4 Do not put your name or any other identifying information on the document that holds your submission. Do not include your name in the file name for your submission. We follow a “blind” reading system: our editors read all submissions without knowing who wrote them.
5 Use Times New Roman 12 pt. for the text of your submission. Single-space your poems; double space between stanzas. Double-space prose manuscripts.
6 Include a 60-word bio written in third person, providing specific information about your writing life and your previous publishing credits.
7 No previously published work — print or online — including work posted on personal websites or social network websites. If your work can be found searching Google, we consider it published.
8 If you have questions, please visit our website, conclavejournal.com, or email wbernhardt@conclave.com.
Conclave’s Website: conclavejournal.com
December 3, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt Is Triumphant
“Perfect Love casts out fear.”~John 4:18
Make art about the triumph of Love.
December 2, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt Takes You Places
Daily Prompt
Dreamt I could fly. Just empty myself out, lift off, and soar.
Make art about flying.
December 1, 2015
Sometimes You Give the Prompt Away
It’s Giving Tuesday
Make art about giving, about an act of charity.
November 30, 2015
A Very Special Call For Submissions: HIV Here & Now Project
The HIV Here & Now Project uses poetry and flash prose to advocate for a world without HIV or AIDS.
#hivtest #hivtreat #hivprevent #nohivshame #nohivstigma
Please submit your work to the HIV Here & Now Project!
Details on submission guidelines, as well as suggested prompts, are below.
Please share widely!
Huge thanks and appreciation to Michael H. Broder for his tireless and necessary work with the HIV Here & Now Project!
Poetry and Nonfiction: Visit the website for more details.
Curator Michael Broder writes:
“I’m very proud of the variety of poets featured to date on HIV Here & Now Project and grateful to the 180 poets whose work has appeared on the site to date. If you are my friend and a poet, please join them. Write a poem for the site and send it to me via Facebook message, the HIV Here & Now website, or Submittable ( https://indolentbooks.submittable.com/submit)
A lot of my poet friends respond well to prompts.
Here are some to consider:
Write a poem in the voice of an HIV virion (virus)
Write a poem in the voice of a CD4 cell (T-cell) being attacked by an HIV virion
Write a poem about a time you had unprotected sex with a partner whose HIV status you did not know
Write a poem about a time you had sex, protected or unprotected, with someone you knew was HIV-positive and how his or her status affected the experience
Write a poem about someone you know who died of AIDS
Write a poem about someone you know who is HIV-positive
Write a poem in your own voice imagining you were just handed an HIV diagnosis
Write a poem in your own voice imagining your mother, father, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, cousin, niece, nephew, best friend, beloved teacher, cherished mentor just told you they were HIV-positive
Subscribe and support this project in any way you can, please!
Thanks!
HIV Here & Now Project
Sometimes the Prompt Has Wings
Daily Prompt
“Angels affect us oft”~John Donne
I’m putting up my first Christmas tree since my husband and brother passed on in 2011. So, I’m a little obsessed right now with making angel ornaments.
Make art about angels.
Monday Must Read! Amy Tudor: Book of Birds, Professor of Bees
This week meet Amy Tudor, whose first collection of poetry, A Book of Birds, won the Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry from Briery Creek Press and was published in 2008. Her second collection, Studies in Extinction, is forthcoming from Aldrich Press in early 2016. Her honors and awards include individual artist grants from the Kentucky Arts Council, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She holds both a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Humanities and a M.F.A. in creative writing and currently teaches creative writing and interdisciplinary courses in thanatology at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky. In addition, Amy is a published essayist, short fiction writer, and photographer, and she is also a working songwriter, with recent collaborations with British artists Mark Chadwick of the Levelers and Jamie Freeman of the Jamie Freeman Agreement.
Buy Amy’s Beautiful Books!
Professor Of Bees
https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=227
The Secret Museum
https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=1893
Book of Birds
http://www.amazon.com/Amy-Tudor/e/B00J7CGLL4
And watch for Amy’s new book, Studies in Extinction, forthcoming from Aldrich Books in 2016!
Read More of Amy’s Amazing Work Online!
http://www.newsoutherner.com/2012/12/19/studies-in-extinction/
http://www.stilljournal.net/amy-tudor-poetry.php
http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v12n2/poetry/tudor_a/death_page.shtml
http://www.newsoutherner.com/tag/amy-tudor/
Interview at Boxcar Poetry
http://www.boxcarpoetry.com/019/interview_tudor_cunningham.html
November 27, 2015
Better Than Black Friday Writing Marathon! 24 New Prompts!
Better Than Black Friday Writing Marathon!
Good Morning, Bargain Shoppers! No Lines! No Waiting!
24 New Prompts for our Second Better Than Black Friday Writing Marathon! Now posted!
Join us in the Facebook group, and git that write on, y’all!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1512919158978356/
Friday Call for Submissions Love! SLAB, Submissions closing soon!
Slab
Submissions close December 1
SLAB WANTS IT ALL, your raise-the-roof, funky creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and text/image pieces. We love flash, too. Reading period: late summer until December 1. All submissions read by bipedal mammals, accompanied by the occasional marsupial.
Samples and more info at slablitmag.org
November 25, 2015
Better Than Black Friday Writing Marathon! New Prompts! Because We’d Rather Be Makers Than Takers!
Just Say No!!!
Okay beautiful writer and artist people!!!!
Tis the month of that devious dubious insidious awful terrible consumerist debacle–Black Friday!
Last year, I just couldn’t stand it anymore, so I started a weekend writing challenge group on Facebook to do my own little bit to fight back against the ickiness of Black Friday shopping! Let’s write instead!
Here’s the FB group, now up to almost 300 people!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1512919158978356/
Join us to Celebrate the First Year Anniversary of this Crazy-Fight-the-Man-and-Capitalist-Lunacy Anti-Black-Friday-24 Hour Writing Marathon!
Mark your calendars! November 27, 2015 :-)
There will be 24 new prompts!
Write! Paint! Draw! Sing! Dance! Make art! Create rather than consume!
And no crazy crowds around to knock you down, tryin to rip that tiger-striped car cover or bullet juicer from your hands!!!
BECAUSE WE’D RATHER BE WRITING!
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