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July 15, 2019
Monday Must Read! Before Language by Susan Deer Cloud
Love this book!
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Susan Deer Cloud, a mixed lineage Catskill Indian, is an alumna of Goddard College (MFA) and Binghamton University (B.A. and M.A.). She has taught Creative Writing, Rhetoric and Literature at Binghamton University and Broome Community College. A few years ago she returned to her “heart country” Catskills to dwell once more with foxes, deer, black bears, bald eagles, and the ghosts of panthers and ancestors. She now lives as a full-time mountain woman, dreamer and writer. Deer Cloud is the recipient of various awards and fellowships, including an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, two New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, and a Chenango County Council for the Arts Individual Artist’s Grant. Some of her books are Hunger Moon (Shabda Press); Fox Mountain, The Last Ceremony and Car Stealer (FootHills Publishing); and Braiding Starlight (Split Oak Press). Her poems, stories and essays have been published in anthologies and journals too numerous to name. In order to get out “the voices of the voiceless,” the poet has edited three published anthologies: multicultural Confluence and Native American anthologies I Was Indian (Before Being Indian Was Cool), Volumes I & II; the 2008 Spring Issue of Yellow Medicine Review, a Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art & Thought; and the Re-Matriation Chapbook Series of Indigenous Poetry. She is a member of the international peace organization SERVAS; Poets & Writers; Associated Writing Programs (AWP); and indigenous Wordcraft Circle. She has served on panels at writers’ conferences and given myriad poetry readings at colleges, cultural centers, coffee houses, and other venues. In between her sojourns in the Catskills, Deer Cloud has spent the past few years roving with her life’s companion, John Gunther, around Turtle Island (North America) as well as on the Isles (Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England) and Europe
Daily Prompt Love <3 Together
15 July 2019
Make art about building unity, about unifying forces, about forces that bring people together.
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Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up t Want To Know
14 July 2019
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Issac Asimov
Make art about willful ignorance.
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July 13, 2019
New Reading Series for Virginia Womxn Writers!
A New Reading Series Celebrating Virginia Women, Woman-Identifying, Genderfluid, Genderqueer, & Nonbinary-Identifying Writers
Womxn at Red Door 104: Words and Art, 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.
Believing that artists should be compensated when possible, we will award all selected readers a small token honorarium.
Please submit writing samples, as detailed below, along with a 50-75 word bio, via Submittable. Please include in your bio your current Virginia city of residence.
Submissions are limited to current Virginia residents.
Send us your best! We’re looking for work that is visually rich, and that will make for a compelling live reading.
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Daily Prompt Love <3 What?
13 July 2019
Make art about what’s misunderstood, about when you misunderstood something, or about when you were misunderstood.
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July 12, 2019
Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 The Revolution (Relaunch)
The Revolution (Relaunch) Seeks Socially Engaged Writing
The Revolution (Relaunch) is a revisionary, radical, and creative resurgence of the women’s rights newspaper founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (1868-1872).
“We’re interested in flash with a socio-political bent—from work that engages with literature and film to current events and politics. We also publish memoir and poetry. If you’re inspired to produce evocative, first-person, social-justice oriented writing—sexual, racial, economic, border-related, or other—then we’d love the opportunity to read your work. All prose submissions should be under 750 words.”
Submit no more than one piece of prose and no more than three poems or three pieces of visual art to . therevolutionrelaunch.com
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Daily Prompt Love <3 Gone
12 July 2019
Make art about extinction, about what’s going extinct.
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July 11, 2019
Daily Prompt Love <3 Bread, God
11 July 2019
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
Make art about hunger.
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July 10, 2019
MidWeek Call for Submissions Love <3 New Journal: Badwater
Badwater: New Journal Seeking Submissions
“We are currently accepting submissions for our inaugural issue, to be released in September. We welcome submissions of up to five poems as well as fiction and creative nonfiction pieces up to 7,500 words. We seek original, unpublished works that showcase the best of established and up-and-coming writers alike. We are especially dedicated to publishing the work of mis/underrepresented groups (e. g. writers of color, writers along the LGBTQ+ spectrum, disabled writers, womxn writers and/or nonbinary/gender-nonconforming writers). We hope to establish a strong tradition of evocative work, and we are certain your contribution will help propel Badwater on this path.”
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Daily Prompt Love <3 In Deep
10 July 2019
Make art about being in deep water, literally or metaphorically.
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