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Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 List

27 April 2019 

Make art about what’s on that list.  Or about taking a breath and stepping away from that list. 

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Friday Call for Submissions <3 Parhelion

Parhelion Literary Magazine is accepting fiction, flash, nonfiction, poetry, and photography for their summer 2019 issue.

“We look for strong writing, fresh voices, and compelling characters. Our magazine is growing and we look forward to reading your work!”

Please review the guidelines before submitting and take a look at what they’re publishing.  

Visit here: parhelionliterary.com  

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Figure

26 April 2019

Make art about, a study of, the figure in the distance. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Mythical

25 April 2019

Make art about a mythical creature. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Privilege

24 April 2019 

Make art about privilege, about those who have it, about the blindness of privilege, about those who abuse it, or about ways to use it to help others. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 That Kind of Wisdom

23 April 2019 

Make art inspired by this: 

“A child’s wisdom is wisdom still.”-Jewish proverb

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Special Monday Call for Submissions! Flock seeks Kith & Kin

Flock

http://flocklit.com

Flock is seeing submissions on the theme KITH AND KIN through May 31. 

“We are eager to receive poetry, fiction, CNF, genre-bending work, artwork, and b&w graphic lit that explores, complicates, and explodes this theme.  

Our mission is to open space for boundary-pushing literature by publishing emotionally resonant work that is strange yet familiar, surprising but grounded, and softly experimental in form, language, or content.”

See Guidelines Here 

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Monday Must Read! Bad Indians by Deborah Miranda

Buy this amazing memoir here

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“This beautiful and devastating book—part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir—should be required reading for anyone seeking to learn about California Indian history, past and present. Deborah A. Miranda tells stories of her Ohlone Costanoan Esselen family as well as the experience of California Indians as a whole through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems. The result is a work of literary art that is wise, angry, and playful all at once, a compilation that will break your heart and teach you to see the world anew.”

An enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of California, poet Deborah Miranda was born in Los Angeles to an Esselen/Chumash father and a mother of French ancestry. She grew up in Washington State, earning a BS in teaching moderate special-needs children from Wheelock College in 1983 and an MA and PhD in English from the University of Washington. Miranda’s collections of poetry include Raised by Humans (2015); Indian Cartography: Poems (1999), winner of the Diane Decorah Memorial First Book Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas; and The Zen of La Llorona (2005), nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. Miranda also received the 2000 Writer of the Year Award for Poetry from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. Her mixed-genre collection Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (2013) won a Gold Medal from the Independent Publisher’s Association and the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan Award.

Praise for Bad Indians

”Essential for all of us who were taught in school that the ‘Mission Indians’ no longer existed in California, Bad Indianscombines tribal and family histories, tape recordings, and the writings of a white ethnologist who spoke with Miranda’s family, together with photographs, old reports from the mission priests to their bishops, and newspaper articles concerning Indians from the nearby white settlements. Miranda takes us on a journey to locate herself by way of the stories of her ancestors and others who come alive through her writing. It’s such a fine book that a few words can’t do it justice.”

–Leslie Marmon Silko, author of Ceremony and The Turquoise Ledge

”Bad Indiansbrings the human story of California’s indigenous community sharply into focus. It’s a narrative long obscured and distorted by celebrations of Christian missionaries and phony stories about civilization coming to a golden land. No other history of California’s indigenous communities that I know of presents such a moving, personal account of loss and survival.”

–Frederick E. Hoxie, Swanlund Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

”For so long, Native writers and readers have opened books of our tribal history, archaeology, or anthropology and found that it is not the story we know. It does not include the people we know. It does not tell the stories of the heart or the relationships that were, and are, significant in any time. When we write our own books, they do not fit the ‘record,’ as created by and confirmed by outside views. From the voice of the silenced, the written about and not written by, this book is groundbreaking not only as literature but as history.”

–Linda Hogan, author of Rounding the Human Corners and a faculty member for the Indigenous Education Institute

Also check out Ms. Miranda’s collection of poetry, Raised by Humans. 

Happy reading! 

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Division

22 April 2019 

Make art about what’s causing division, what divides us, or about what connects us in spite of division. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Divine

21 April 2019 

When I was a little, little girl, I saw an episode of the original Star Trek series in which all of the voices/souls of a lost planet swirled in a huge sphere of multicolored, sparkling light, floating through space. At five years old, I thought that must be what God is like. 

Make art about your idea of the divine. 

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