Mary Carroll-Hackett's Blog, page 32

Daily Prompt Love <3 Curtain

1 March 2019 

Make art about what’s behind the curtain. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Hurry

28 February 2019

Make art about the hurry, about being in a hurry, about the dangers of a hurried life. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Broken and Beautiful

27 February 2019 

Make art about what’s broken and beautiful, about beautiful versions of brokenness. 

 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 In the Flood

26 February 2019

Make art about the river rising, about what the flood takes with it, what it leaves behind. 

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Openings in March & April for Distance Manuscript Consultations

Distance One-on-One Manuscript Consultation Proposal

A Month By Mail, Focused Completely On Your Work !

Week 1: I receive and focus on a close reading of your manuscript.

Week 2: I will closely read a second time, this time making line by line editorial comments, returning the line-edited manuscript to you, and a detailed 6-8 page letter with initial response and suggestions by mail at the end of the first week. Upon your receipt of the manuscript, we’ll have an initial phone call (these usually last around 2 hours) to discuss those suggested edits, focusing that first week primarily on characterization, consistency, voice, the perceived goals of the narrative.

Week 3: I’ll compose a second detailed letter, this time focusing on structure and control of the narrative throughline, as well as any other elements I see presenting in the submitted work. This I’ll email to you by midweek, and again, we can schedule a phone meeting at week’s end to address this second editorial run through.

Week 4: I’ll ask that you send to me a list of your questions or comments early in the week, which I’ll address in writing, as well as sending you another detailed critique letter, focused on language and new ways of understanding and crafting voice and storytelling. We’ll finish with a third phone meeting to tie up any loose ends, address any remaining questions you might have on the critique provided.

So that’s Full Line Edits, Three Critique Letters, and Three Phone Meetings.

Contact me at carrollhackettma@gmail.com for a quote and scheduling.

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Monday Must Read! New Poets of Native Nations

New Poets of Native Nations by Heid E. Erdrich 

from Graywolf Press 

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from Erdrich’s introduction: 

“Native nations are our homelands, our political bodies, our heritages, and the places that make us who we are as Natives in the United States of America. More than 566 Native nations exist in the U.S. and yet “Native American poetry” does not really exist. Our poetry might be hundreds of distinct tribal and cultural poetries as well as American poetry. The extraordinary poets gathered in New Poets of Native Nations have distinct and close ties to specific indigenous nations—including Alaskan Native and island nations. Most are members or citizens of a tribe: Dakota, Diné, Onondaga, Choctaw, and Anishinaabe/Ojibwe (my tribe), and more than a dozen others. These nations determine their own membership and their own acceptance of descendants. My criterion that a poet have a clear connection to a Native nation has nothing to do with blood quantum, the federal basis for recognition of American Indians. Race also has nothing to do with it. Geography is not a factor. These poets live on reservations, in nations, and in cities or towns. Some of their reservations and homelands are urban; most are rural. Many of these poets have relatives across the borders of Mexico and Canada. Most are multiracial. They are also a diverse group in terms of age, gender, education, and poetic styles, but they have one thing in common. Not one of them identifies as “Native American” alone.”

Read more at LitHub. 

Purchase this beautiful book here. 

 

Daily Prompt Love

25 February 2019 

“blessed be  she  who is  both  furious  and  magnificent”  ―Taylor Rhodes 

Make art about a woman who is furious and magnificent. 

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Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Left Behind

24 February 2019 

Make art about what’s left behind. 

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Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 That Wind

23 February 2019 

Make art about what the wind says. 

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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Barren Magazine

Barren Magazine accepts flash fiction, short fiction, poetry, and essays about the complexities of the human condition. They also accept photography — all images in Barren Magazine are original. Please read the current issue to get an idea of what catches their eye. Barren Magazine accepts simultaneous submissions, but ask that you please let them know immediately if your work is accepted somewhere else. Barren Magazine prefers previously unpublished material, but may accept previously published material as long as authors own its copyright and provide appropriate attribution.

For submission details, visit Barren here. 

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