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October 26, 2015
Monday Must Read! Alexis Fancher: How I Lost My Virginity to Michael Cohen and Other Heart Stab Poems
Monday Must Read!
Photo Credit: BAZ HERE
This week meet Alexis Rhone Fancher, author of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen and Other Heart Stab Poems, from Sybaritic Press, 2014. Find her work in Rattle, The MacGuffin, Slipstream, The Chiron Review, and elsewhere. Her poems have been published in over twenty American and international anthologies. Her photos have been published worldwide. Since 2013 Alexis has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes and a Best of The Net award. She is photography editor of Fine Linen, and poetry editor of Cultural Weekly, where she also publishes The Poet’s Eye, a monthly photo essay about her ongoing love affair with Los Angeles.
Alexis’ website: www.alexisrhonefancher.com
Buy Alexis’ fabulous book!
Read more from Alexis online:
Rattle
Cultural Weekly
QUAINT MAGAZINE
PATRIA LETTERATURA
Reviews of Alexis’ book:
ENTROPY
Review of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen and Other Heart Stab Poems
Black and White Gets Read
Review of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen and Other Heart Stab Poems
Interviews:
Alexis Rhone Fancher: Poetic Rhythms: LA poet / photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher talks about the progressive line between music and poetry
http://blues.gr/profiles/blogs/la-poet-photographer-alexis-rhone-fancher-talks-about-the
WICN
Radio Interview on Inquiry: WICN’s Mark Lynch interviews Alexis.
WORDS AT NINE
Interview with Anna Grace: “Alexis Next Door”
PUNK GLOBE
Find more of Alexisa online here: http://alexisrhonefancher.com/links.html
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
October 25, 2015
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October 23, 2015
Friday Call for Submissions Love! Twisted Vine
Friday Call for Submissions Love!
Twisted Vine
Open for Fall Submissions
Deadline: November 15, 2015
Produced by graduate students in the Interdisciplinary Studies Department at Western New Mexico University, Twisted Vine Literary Arts Journal is a multidisciplinary focused arts journal currently seeking literary fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, interviews, drama, cross-genre, and visual art for fall 2015. While we love prose with a strong narrative voice and poetry that highlights concrete images, we also appreciate non-linear and experimental work. Issues are published biannually online at the end of each semester. Please visit www.twistedvine.org for more information. We look forward to reading your work.
Guidelines
Twisted Vine Literary Arts Journal is committed to showcasing undiscovered talent in the literary and visual arts. Twisted Vine seeks to publish an eclectic mix of ideas and values. We are open to all genres, though we have a special affinity for hybrid works that transcend traditional genres. The editors of Twisted Vine strongly encourage submissions that are interdisciplinary in nature (poetry about math is one example), progressive, and unexpected.
All written material submitted should be in Arial or Times New Roman 12 point font, double spaced, and adhere to basic guidelines of grammar and spelling (with obvious exceptions for creative license).
Twisted Vine reads blind, so we ask that you do not include any identifying information within your submission.
Once a submission is selected for publication, the contributor’s name will be revealed to the staff, and additional information may be requested. We make every attempt to respond to all submissions within 2 months. Editors may provide specific feedback on works submitted but there is no guarantee.
Please limit submissions to one document, video, or collection of images per genre category at one time. If you are submitting poetry, please include no more than six (6) poems in a single document. If your submission includes more than one file, please use one ZIP file before submitting. Once you have received a response from us, you are welcome to submit again. We are looking for quality over quantity.
Twisted Vine is not interested in gratuitous sex or violence. Please keep all submissions “PG-13.”
We only accept original, unpublished material. We consider any work that is available for public viewing on social media, personal websites/blogs, or any other open source to be previously published.
If your submission is accepted elsewhere please notify us immediately by adding a note to your submission in Submittable.
Fiction Guidelines
Please limit short fiction to 4,500-5,000 words. Fiction genre includes but is not limited to romance, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, etc. We are looking to compile a diverse and eclectic body of work that represents the interdisciplinary theme of our journal. Stories should have strong narration, character development, plot, and so forth.
Creative Non-Fiction Guidelines
Creative non-fiction submissions are limited to 4,500 words. We are looking for eclectic submissions in this genre that compliment our cross-disciplinary focus. We are open to a broad range of material, however your submission must remain literary in essence.
Poetry Guidelines
Twisted Vine accepts both traditional and experimental poetry. We do not adhere to any specific guidelines for style or content and only ask that your poems reflect artistic excellence. We highly encourage poems that represent interdisciplinary themes.
Please submit no more than six (6) poems per document. Along with the written version of the poem, contributors are welcome to submit audio or video readings of their poetry for consideration on our website as well.
Art Guidelines
We accept original graphic art, photography, paintings/drawings, cartoons and all others forms of visual art in .jpg or .jpeg format. We are not genre specific, but will give preference to pieces that capture the spirit of our interdisciplinary theme.
You may submit up to six (6) images that represent a cohesive collection. If submitting more than one image, please title each image file with the same name and corresponding numbers (example: Carnival1, Carnival2, Carnival3, etc) and submit as a ZIP file. Editors reserve the right to publish any part or all of a collection submitted.
Interview Guidelines
Twisted Vine accepts audio, video, and transcribed interviews. Please limit all audio and video submissions to 10 minutes or less in length and all transcribed interviews to 4,500 words or less. Stylistically, we want interviews that discuss cross-disciplinary studies, literature, and, the arts at large. The edgier the better, but keep it above the belt.
Video Guidelines
We are looking for short, experimental videos with an interdisciplinary approach to artistic and literary subject matter. We are open to a wide range of possibilities in this category and will know what we like when we see it. We prefer videos under 5 minutes and definitely no longer than 10 minutes in length. Please polish your work as needed (before submitting) so that you are exhibiting the best of what you have to offer. Please, no unsolicited series, newsreels, or readings of unoriginal work.
For more on what we’re looking for, please check out our editor’s interview with Jim Harrington on Six Questions For…
Twisted Vine is currently a non-paying market.
Twisted Vine website: http://www.twistedvine.org/
Editor/General Questions: twistedvine.ce1@gmail.com
October 22, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt Fills You Up
10/22/2015
“I want to remember us this way—late September sun streaming through
the window, bread loaves and golden bunches of grapes on the table, spoonfuls of hot soup rising to our lips, filling us with what endures.”~Peter Pereira
Make art about sustenance.
October 21, 2015
Brand New Journal Seeking Submissions! Caravel
Brand New Journal Seeking Submissions!
Caravel Literary Arts Journal
“Caravel Literary Arts Journal is a new journal that begins sailing in Fall 2015. We are fans of traditional and experimental fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. Though Caravel does not subscribe to any particular political ideology, please feel free to send us your socially engaged/social justice oriented poems, stories, and art.
We publish twice a year, fall and spring. Please use the “submissions” tab if you would like your work to be considered for the upcoming edition of Caravel.”
Caravel’s website: http://www.caraveljournal.org/
Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-)
Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-)
10/15/2015
I have one dog who thinks she’s Houdini, constantly coming up with magic ways to get out of my fenced yard. Make art about escape.
10/16/2015
“The sky hangs up its starry pictures: a swan, a crab, a horse”~Barbara Crooker Make art inspired by constellations.
10/17/2015
I’m conducting a workshop this weekend on Writing Prayer. Write your own prayer, or chant, or gratitude letter. Make art that is prayer.
10/18/2015
Nighttime & Dreams Daily Prompt
Last night I dreamt my beautiful friend Beth and I were escorting a huge group–hundreds–of people on some kind of trek to safety through a beautiful wild desert-like landscape. Beth walked in the front of the long long line of people, and I covered the back, making sure we lost no one. I carried a small child, a little boy with outrageously blue eyes, on my hip, We had planned for years for the time when we would have to do this, and so we knew what we had to do to get them where we were taking them safely. It felt good and strong and somehow celebratory, despite knowing it was a rescue and there was so much that had to be done. I was very glad to have Beth there with me.
Make art about rescue.
10/19/2015
First frost of the fall :-) My cold frames are keeping the winter garden safe. Make art about protecting something from the cold.
10/20/2015
Today included seriously the most amazing nap :-) Make art about naps.
10/21/2015
Thinkin on Call & Response. Call and response is a form of “spontaneous verbal non-verbal interaction between speaker and listener in which all of the statements (‘calls’) are punctuated by expressions (‘responses’) from the listener.” Make art using a call & response exchange.
October 19, 2015
Monday Must Read! Susan Lewis, How To Be Another
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Susan Lewis, the author of six chapbooks and two full-length poetry collections, This Visit (BlazeVOX [books], 2015), and How to be Another (Červená Barva Press, 2014). Her poetry and flash fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize several times and published in such journals as The Awl, Berkeley Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Cimarron Review, Connotation Press, EOAGH, Fact-Simile, Fourteen Hills, Gargoyle, The Journal, Luna Luna, The New Orleans Review, Phoebe, Ping Pong, Pool, Prelude, Propeller, Raritan, Seneca Review, So To Speak, Verse Daily, Word For/Word and Yew. She lives in New York City and edits Posit (www.positjournal.com).
Get Susan’s most recent books here:
Read more from Susan online:
http://www.susanlewis.net/poetry-online/
Read reviews, interviews, blurbs, etc.:
October 14, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt is an Unbelievable Gift :-) Happy Birthday to My Son
10/14/2015
Daily Prompt
My youngest son, Dean, has a birthday today :-) Twenty-one years ago, my greatest teacher was born :-) He arrived earlier than expected, a laid back observer of the universe even as he rested swaddled in my arms :-) I am so awed by the man he is, smart, funny, loving, with the courage to take on his own lessons, and his Baby Buddha ability to release what should be let go. :-) “Chill, Mom, It’s all gonna be okay.”
Make art about the teachers in your life
October 13, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt Needs Some Preparation :-)
10/13/2015
Daily Prompt
Putting in the winter garden, prepping so I’ll have them wonderful leafy greens even when the snow comes.
Make art about the ways we prepare for winter.
October 12, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt is Horrific
10/12/2015
Daily Prompt
We don’t celebrate Columbus. Make art about history being written by the victors.
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8 Myths and Atrocities About Christopher Columbus and Columbus Day
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