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September 13, 2019

Daily Prompt Love <3 Retreat

13 September 2019 


I’m headed off to lead a workshop at the fabulous Porches Writers Retreat this weekend ❤ 


Make art about seeking refuge, about retreat. 


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Published on September 13, 2019 05:25

September 12, 2019

Daily Prompt Love s Revealed

12 September 2019 


Make art about what’s revealed, what you see, in the patterns. 


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Published on September 12, 2019 04:24

September 11, 2019

Daily Prompt Love <3 Through the Air

11 September 2019


Had the most amazing flying dream, soaring and swooping high above the most beautiful countryside. 


Make art about flying, or a flying dream. 


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Published on September 11, 2019 05:22

Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 That Shift

10 September 2019 


Make art about feeling that shift in the season. 


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Published on September 11, 2019 05:09

September 9, 2019

Monday Must Read! Corn Exchange by Helen Vitoria

Helen Vitoria is an award winning poet and an artist living in Pennsylvania.  Her poems and photographs appear widely online and in print.  She is the author of nine poetry chapbooks, a poetry pamphlet, a full length poetry collection and a collaborative ekphrastic poetry/photography collection. Her poems have been nominated thrice for Best New Poets & several Pushcart Prizes.


Corn Exchange (Wild Chestnut Press. 2013), her first full length collection of poetry won the 2014 IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award) SILVER MEDAL for Poetry, the 2014 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Poetry, an Honorable Mention for the 2014 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Book Award, in addition to having placed as a finalist for the 2014 Eric Hoffer da Vinci Eye Award & the 2014 Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal, and recently been nominated for the 2015 Tufts Discovery Award.


Buy this beautiful book here! 


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Cover photo : The Cornfield by Kathy Harcom , http://www.kathyharcom.com


Visit Helen’s website here! 


Praise for Corn Exchange


“Invoking Anne Sexton’s brand of highly personal, confessional verse, Vitoria’s tragically intimate collection fearlessly attempts to reconcile ideas such as fear, suicide, family, commitment, pornography, memory, and experience through the binary elements of sight and touch. Vitoria shows a clear understanding of the safety existing in the eyes, in the act of seeing and observing, and in its inherent physical distance that the hands cannot and do not carry. Not until there exists a trust able to reconcile that physical distance and, as Vitoria explains, “spread the body, [using] thumb and palm and say: here, be happy.”– Hoffer Award judges had to say to the US Review of Books 


Corn Exchange has been taught in MFA courses in Umbria, Italy, and her poem, We Were Horses, taught in various Creative Writing MFA classes throughout the US.


She is the Founding Editor & Editor in Chief of  the award winning, Thrush Poetry Journal  & Thrush Press.  She also  served as a Poetry Editor for Poets & Artists Magazine.  She teaches a free monthly poetry  workshop in her community and will be teaching poetry to inmates in Pennsylvania Corrections  Facilities.  She is working on her second full length collection of poetry, NEBRASKA. Visit her listing on Poets & Writers here. 

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Published on September 09, 2019 04:57

Daily Prompt Love <3 Head Above Water

9 September 2019 


Make art about staying afloat. 


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Published on September 09, 2019 04:11

September 8, 2019

Daily Prompt Love <3 Oh So Free

8 September 2019 


Make art about what frees you, about what makes you feel most free. 


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Published on September 08, 2019 07:05

September 7, 2019

Daily Prompt Love <3 Did You See That?

7 September 2019 


Make art about having visions, about what came to you in a vision. 


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Published on September 07, 2019 12:31

September 6, 2019

Reading Series for Virginia Womxn Writers! Call for Submissions!

Womxn at Red Door 104: Words & Art
A New Reading Series Celebrating Virginia Womxn, Womxn-Identifying, Genderfluid, Genderqueer, & Nonbinary-Identifying Writers

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Womxn at Red Door 104: Words and Art, created to celebrate Virginia womxn writers, is a partnership between Creative Writing at Longwood University and Red Door 104, a unique gallery and art learning center owned and operated by the tireless and talented Audrey Sullivan,  in historic downtown Farmville,Virginia.


The series will consist of two events annually:



A reading and reception in April 2020, with two featured readers and five cameo readers.
All selected readers will then also have the unique and exciting experience of having visual art created by central Virginia artists in response to their submitted work. This art will be revealed in a second event, an art opening at Red Door 104 the following October.

The first Womxn at Red Door 104 reading will take place from 2-4 pm on Saturday, April 4, 2020. The art opening will take place in October 2020, date tba.


Selected writers must be available to read in person, and should be willing to attend both events.


Believing that artists should be compensated when possible, we will award all selected readers a small token honorarium.


Please submit writing samples, as detailed below, along with a 50-75 word bio, via Submittable.  Please include in your bio your current Virginia city of residence.


Submissions are limited to current Virginia residents.


Send us your best! We’re looking for work that is visually rich, and that will make for a compelling live reading.


Full Submission Details Here! 


 

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Published on September 06, 2019 14:38

Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 The Festival

The Festival Seeking New and Diverse Voices for Fall Issue


Deadline: Rolling





The Festival Review seeks new and diverse voices in literature and media arts for upcoming Fall 2019 issue. Anything under 5k words accepted. No special formatting required. Free to submit. Small stipend paid  to contributors. Submit or inquire to thefestivalreview@gmail.com 


Visit the website here!  


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Published on September 06, 2019 08:18

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