Mary Carroll-Hackett's Blog, page 25

Daily Prompt Love <3 Absolution

20 April 2019 

Make art about or write a letter to someone you need to forgive. 

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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Borrowed Solace–Themed Issue

borrowed solace is open for fall submissions

Deadline: June 30, 2019

borrowed solace, an online literary and arts journal, is accepting submissions for its Fall 2019 themed issue on corruption.

“We accept poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art. Submissions are open now and close June 30th. Corruption is a process by which a simple word or well-known expression is changed from its original use and is abused or manipulated into something that it’s not. Corruption is power that rots relationships, it is the gaps between the haves and have-nots, the never-ending struggle for happiness, to belong and much more.”

You can find submission guidelines and more about the theme here:

borrowedsolace.com/submission-guidelines/

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Dangerous Times

19 April 2019 

‘We were lovers in dangerous times” -Bruce Cockburn

Make art about love and danger, about the danger of love, about love that’s dangerous. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Promise

18 April 2019 

Make art about the oath you swore, the promise you made. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Follow

17 April 2019 

Make art about who’s following you. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Words, Skin

16 April 2019 

“I have so many words–“chink” words and :gook” words, too–that they do not fit on my skin.” — from The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston. 

Make art about the words you have, the words imprinted on your skin. 

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Monday Must Read! The Rope Swing by Jonathan Corcoran

Jonathan Corcoran is the author of the story collection, The Rope Swing, published in 2016 by West Virginia University Press. The Rope Swing was a finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Awards and long-listed for The Story Prize. His stories have been anthologized in Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia and Best Gay Stories 2017. He received a BA in Literary Arts from Brown University and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Rutgers University-Newark. Jonathan is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University and serves as a Visiting Writer in the low-residency MFA program at West Virginia Wesleyan College. He was born and raised in a small town in West Virginia and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.

Check out Jonathan’s website here! 

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Buy this beautiful book here!

Praise for The Rope Swing

“Jonathan Corcoran’s Appalachian voice, so fierce, so tender,portrays tradition as both weapon and soothing balm. The Rope Swingtakes us inside quiet revolutions of the soul in mountain towns far from Stonewall: we can never go home again, but we recognize ourselves in these linked stories of love, loss, the economic tyranny of neglect and exploitation, and the lifelong alliance between those who stay and those who leave. The Rope Swing establishes a new American writer whose unerring instincts are cause for celebration.”

—Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Quiet Dell, Lark and Termite, and Black Tickets

Daily Prompt Love <3 Nesting

15 April 2019 

Make art about nests, about nesting, about building a nest, about the topography of nests. 

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Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Anger

14 April 2019 

Make art about someone else’s anger, about being the target of or setting boundaries against someone else’s anger. Or about understanding that anger is often fear. 

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Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Opening

13 April 2019

The name for the month of April originally came for Aprilis which means to open.

Write about opening, about what’s opening. 

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