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November 17, 2015
Special Tuesday Call for Submissions :-) HeartWood
We accept submissions year round through Submittable, and welcome previously unpublished poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, from both established and emerging writers. We do love Appalachian voices, but we enthusiastically encourage writers from all backgrounds to submit.
General Submissions
What We Want:
We are interested in writing that pushes into, dares to reveal, its own truth, that takes emotional risks, that gets to the heart of the matter.
Simultaneous submissions are fine, provided you notify us if the work is accepted elsewhere.
We also welcome queries from Appalachian artists (writers, visual artists, musicians, performers, folk artists, etc) interested in being included in our Appalachian Arts section.
Submission Details
Prose submissions, fiction or nonfiction, should be 3000 words or less.
Fiction: Fiction submissions may include short stories, flash fiction, or novel excerpts if the excerpt can stand alone. You may submit more than one piece of flash fiction, as long as the total word count does not exceed 3000 words.
Creative Nonfiction: We’re open to a wide range of nonfiction, with the exception of academic articles, or that which would be considered more traditionally journalistic. Personal essay, memoir, lyric, literary journalism, or some blurring in between, are all acceptable.
Poetry: Poets should submit no more than 3-5 single-spaced poems at a time. Include all poems in a single document for upload. Lyric, narrative, experimental, prose poems–we’re open to all variations of the poetic voice.
Surprise us. Make us think. Make us feel. Make our hearts race.
Appalachian Arts Interviews
We also welcome queries from Appalachian artists (writers, visual artists, musicians, performers, folk artists, etc) interested in being included in our Appalachian Arts section. We define Appalachian artists as an artist who is heavily influenced by the Appalachian region and its traditions, history, and people. At HeartWood, we are looking for artists who take these traditions and speak to them in a new and unexpected way.
To query about possible inclusion in the Appalachian Arts section: Submit the following in one document (doc, docx) through the Appalachian Arts link on our Submittable page:
Artist bio
Artist statement addressing what being an “Appalachian artist” means to you, how you uniquely define yourself as an Appalachian artist, and how your connection to Appalachia as you see/define it connects (or doesn’t) to your work.
At least one link to where artwork or samples can be seen/heard (artist website, other publications, YouTube, etc).
If we’re interested, based on the query, editors will email requesting additional information and work sample.
What We’ll Do
Submissions will be responded to within three months. If you haven’t heard from us after three months, feel free to inquire by sending us a note through Submittable. If your work is accepted, HeartWood acquires first North American rights. All rights revert to the author upon publication, but we do ask for first publication attribution in any future publications. We also reserve the right to include accepted pieces in any future anthologies or promotions. If we have passed on a submission, please wait 6 months before submitting again. Regrettably, time being as it is, we are unable offer feedback on submissions.
As much as we would love to be able to pay our contributors, unfortunately we are not able to do so. This is a labor of love for all of us, and we will do our best to honor and promote your work.
(Please note: We regret that current or past employees, current or past students, and alumni of WVWC are not eligible for publication in HeartWood, but we wish you much luck with your work elsewhere.)
HeartWood website: http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/
Sometimes the Prompt Comes in Intervals
Daily Prompt
Kept hittin the snooze button :-)
Make art about the need to keep dreaming.
November 16, 2015
100s of Writing and Creativity Prompts!
Don’t forget to check out the hundreds of writing and creativity prompts here on the Writing Prompts Page!
Pass it on! The more beauty we bring to this troubled world the better!
http://marycarrollhackett.com/writing-prompts/
Daily Prompt Catch-Up!
11/14/2015
Met up with sweet friends to commemorate the anniversary of my brother’s death. Make art about a difficult anniversary.
11/15/2015
House filled with family, and ghosts. Make art about what haunts you.
11/16/2015
“I once was a child am a child am someone’s child”~Victoria Chang
Make art about feeling like a child.
Monday Must Read! Jenny Sadre-Orafai: Paper, Cotton, Leather
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Jenny Sadre-Orafai, the author of Paper, Cotton, Leather (Press 53) and four chapbooks. Recent poetry has appeared in Tammy, Loose Change, Bear Review, Linebreak, Redivider, Eleven Eleven, Thrush Poetry Journal, PANK, and Rhino. Her prose has appeared in The Los Angeles Review, The Rumpus, The Toast, and South Loop Review. She is co-founding editor of Josephine Quarterly and an Associate Professor of English at Kennesaw State University.
Jenny’s Website!
http://www.jennysadre-orafai.com
Get Jenny’s Book
Paper, Cotton, Leather (Press 53)
http://www.press53.com/bioJennySadreOrafai.html
Read Jenny’s Work Online
Poetry
“The Burn I Put” in Bear Review
http://issuu.com/bearreview/docs/bear_review_1.1/1
“How Much Gospel” in Loose Change
http://loosechangemagazine.org/jenny-sadre-orafai52/
“The Morning of Your 35th Birthday” in Linebreak
https://linebreak.org/poems/the-morning-of-your-35th-birthday/
“Karaj” in Thrush
http://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/may-2014-jenny-sadre-orafai.html
Creative Non-Fiction
“Kamehameha The Great” in The Rumpus
http://therumpus.net/2012/05/kamehameha-the-great/
“Live Bears “ in The Toast
http://the-toast.net/2014/02/05/live-bears-on-living-in-tourist-towns/
“The Prettiest Girls in the World Are Born in Alabama in The Rumpus
http://therumpus.net/2014/01/the-prettiest-girls-in-the-world-are-born-in-alabama/
Hear Jenny read!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCYioPwKz1I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZScp7oxC9U
November 13, 2015
Friday Call for Submissions Love! Posit: A Journal of Literature & Art
Posit: A Journal of Literature & Art
Posit considers submissions between September 1st and May 31st, via Submittable.
Posit publishes four issues per year of finely crafted contemporary literary and visual art. Due to the large number of excellent submissions we receive, we are currently reading for publication in mid- and late- 2016. We are looking for innovation, aesthetic vision, and accomplished craftsmanship. Our tastes are non-sectarian, with an interest in the experimental. We accept simultaneous submissions, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Posit considers only unpublished written work, and acquires first-time North American rights upon publication. Thereafter, all rights revert to the author, and the work may be reprinted as long as appropriate acknowledgement to Posit is made. No such restrictions apply to visual art submissions.
Poetry: 3-6 poems, no line limits, but no epics, please.
Fiction and hybrids: 1000 words or less.
Visual Art: Please submit six to twelve jpeg images, an inventory list, an artist’s statement and a one-paragraph bio.
Film and animation: no longer than 3 minutes, please.
See Posit’s website for complete details.
Sometimes the Prompt Never Ends
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.”~Henry David Thoreau
Make art about things eternal.
(Photo by my late husband John Little Bear Eaton)
November 12, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt Goes On and On
“When the singer’s gone Let the song go on”~Art Garfunkle
Make art about the persistence of Love.
#writingprompt #art #fiction #nonfiction #wordsmatter #loveneverends
November 11, 2015
Got Book? Special Thursday Call for Submissions! Main Street Rag
Deadline: February 1, 2016
Award: $1,200, publication, and contributor copies
Fee: $25
Send between 48 and 84 pages of poetry. No restriction on content style or subject. We’re looking for the best manuscript.
Complete Guidelines here!
http://03c9c48.netsolhost.com/WordPress/contests/the-main-street-rag-poetry-book-award/
Sometimes the Prompt is Unsung
Daily Prompt
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell
Make art about heroism, about heroes.
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