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September 27, 2015
DailyPrompt Catch-Up
9/25/2015
Road trip to visit with my...
DailyPrompt Catch-Up
9/25/2015
Road trip to visit with my daughter and son-in-law. Early early morning arrival. “What remains for us has always been what’s arriving”~Wayne Miller Make art about arrival, about what’s arriving.
9/26/2015
Did a little bargaining at the farmer’s market. Haggling is an integral part of the shopping experience in many cultures, and should be considered a game, rather than a battle. Make art about haggling or bargaining.
9/27/2015
Dreamt I was weaving a flower chain necklace for a child, whose bright laughter I heard from a distance. Make art about laughter, the catharsis of laughter, the gift of mirth.
September 23, 2015
You are the Poem, You are the Song <3
We’re One, but we’re not the same
We get to Carry each other Carry each other
Sometimes the Equinox is the Prompt :-)
Happy Autumnal Equinox
Make art about balance.
September 22, 2015
Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-)
9/21/2015
Daily Prompt missed yesterday :-( Oops! So make art about a missed opportunity. :-)
9/22/2015
Daily Prompt “Aging, I am a stowaway in the hold of my being.”~Stanley Moss Make art about aging, about the stages of growing older.
Opportunity Missed and Taken Green Road Sign and Clouds
September 21, 2015
Call for Submissions Love! HeartWood Wants Your Best Work!
HeartWood, an online literary magazine in association with West Virginia Wesleyan’s Low-Residency MFA program, publishes twice yearly, in April and October. Our inaugural issue will go live April 2016.
We accept submissions year round through Submittable, and welcome previously unpublished poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, from both established and emerging writers.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.)
Visit HeartWood’s website: http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/
Submit here! http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/submit/
Monday Must Read! M. Mack: Traveling and Imaginary Kansas
Monday Must Read!
This week meet M. Mack. M. Mack is a genderqueer poet, editor, and fiber artist in Virginia. Mack is also the author of Theater of Parts (Sundress Publications, 2016) and the chapbook Imaginary Kansas (dancing girl press, 2015). Ze holds an M.F.A. from George Mason University and is former managing editor of So to Speak: a feminist journal of language and art. Hir work has appeared recently in Fence, cream city review, Hot Metal Bridge, and The Queer South (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014). Mack is a founding co-editor of Gazing Grain Press and an assistant editor for Cider Press Review.
Traveling is a collection of hybrid prose sequences that have some elements of dramatic forms. They investigate gender across multiple dimensions real and otherwise. Traveling is, in part, a reference to traveling dreams and astral travel. The chapbook was selected with four others in Hyacinth Girl‘s 2014 open reading period, which was run as Chapbook Thunderdome. Traveling was edited by Tess Wilson for HGP and designed by Sarah Reck. The cover art is by Tristin Miller (who has a facebook page here).
Order Traveling!
http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfive/traveling.html
M. Mack’s website:
Links to published sequences from the chapbook and a video of one of the poems:
http://wickedalicezine.tumblr.com/post/50908249325/not-this-by-m-mack
http://www.menacinghedge.com/fall2014/entry-mack.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3A3EyZX-4g
Here is an interview:
Some bits of Imaginary Kansas, a chapbook forthcoming later this summer from dancing girl press .
http://melancholyhyperbole.com/tag/m-mack/
http://www.temenosjournal.com/poetry/Mack_Kansas.html
Happy reading!
xo
Mary
September 20, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt is for My Son’s Birthday
9/20/2015
Made my son birthday breakfast :-) He turned 27 today, and is both one of my greatest teachers, and my dearest friend. Breakfast involved gravy :-) Of course, it did :-) We’re Southern
The rest is gravy.Gravy train. Good gravy!
Make art about gravy. Yep. Gravy. :-)
September 19, 2015
Sometimes You Have to Let the Prompt Go
Daily Prompt
“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.”~Kahlil Gibran
Make art about releasing control.
September 18, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt Makes You Brave
Made myself do something I was terrified to do.
Make art about that moment you push through fear.
September 16, 2015
Sometimes You Bump Into the Prompt
Talking with my students about and thinking a lot about tension arising from juxtaposition.
Make art about unexpected juxtapositions.
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