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Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3

11/8/2016

Make art about hard choices.

 

11/9/2016

Make art about not learning the lessons of history.

11/10/2016

Make art about Love as Resistance.

Special Call for Submissions

The Trump Years is a literary magazine dedicated to documenting this country’s years under Donald Trump. Please send 2-4 poems or under 2,000 words of anything else to trumpyears@gmail.com.
We particularly look forward to submissions from women, people of color, people who identify as LGBT, people with disabilities, and others who are underrepresented in publishing.
We need, somehow, to document this.

And because I feel like squawking–Some Call for Submissions Love

Thanks to Paul McVeigh for sharing this call. 

Squawk Back seeks Fiction, Poetry & Creative Non-fiction

“Send any materials that you wish to have considered for publication in (the) Squawk Back—preferably as attachments in .doc, .rtf, .txt, or .odt format; or copy-pasted in the body of an email—but under no circumstances as .wps files or PDFs, and preferably not .docx’s—to…..

editor@thesquawkback.com

We read year round. All first-time submitters will hear back from us within two weeks. Those previously published in Squawk Back will wait a bit longer, as their submissions do, unfortunately, go to the bottom of a pile, owing to that we try very hard to feature new contributors in every issue.

We primarily publish fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. We do not publish plays or screenplays, but we may consider monologues. We will consider excerpts from unpublished novels, poetry collections &c, but please do not submit entire books.

No individual prose submission should exceed ten-thousand words in length. For submitters of poems, we’d prefer it if you kept it under ten pieces per submission. Multiple-poem submissions go in one document or are pasted into the body of one email.

Upon acceptance for publication, submitted pieces which appear in their entirety on personal blogs either Must Be Removed from those pages or replaced with excerpts and/or links to their new home in Squawk Back.

Upon submitting your work, you hereby grant (the) Squawk Back a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable license to use, reproduce, distribute, modify and display your content for any purpose, including without limitation promoting and redistributing part or all of the site. Works submitted to Squawk Back, whether officially or unofficially copyrighted, will remain the full intellectual property of their authors. We are far less interested in exploiting emergent literary voices than providing them with a louder box with which to squawk.”

Daily Prompt Love <3 Better Angels

11/7/2016

 “I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”–Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, Monday, March 4, 1861

Make art about the better angels of our nature (’cause we sure need ’em now). 

 

Monday Must Read! Peter Grandbois, Nahoonkara

This week meet one of my most beloved brother mans

Weekend Prompt Love <3

11/5/2016

Make art about turning around, going back.

 

11/6/2016

Make art about slipping away.

 

Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Claudius Seeks Writing, Photography, Painting, and Illustration

CLAUDIUS SPEAKS

Bold Art. Powerful Writing. New Voices

A literary journal seeking submissions of personal essays, narrative nonfiction, poetry, photography, painting, and illustration.

“We welcome submissions of exceptional, previously unpublished poetry, non-fiction essays, paintings, illustrations and photographs. We have no content restrictions; we only ask that you send your best, most polished and wholly original work to us. For special themed issues, we ask that your content reflect the theme as interpreted through your artistic lens.We are a platform for emerging voices to challenge the mind and move the heart.”

View the latest theme and submission instructions on their website:  claudiusspeaks.com

Detailed Submission Guidelines here: 

https://claudiusspeaks.com/submission-guidelines/

Daily Prompt Love <3 Mapping It All Out

4 November 2016

I love my GPS, but I also love my old school Atlas Map. Make art about maps, mapping, or going off the map.

 

Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Finally! 24 New Creativity-Inspiring Prompts!

And hopefully I’m back on track with these

Monday Must Read! Gabrielle Brant Freeman, When She Was Bad

And we’re back—with the amazing Gabrielle Brant Freeman, author of the stunning debut collection When She Was Bad. Gabrielle’s poetry has been published in many journals, most recently in Barrelhouse, Hobart, Melancholy Hyperbole, Rappahannock Review, storySouth, and Waxwing. She was nominated twice for the Best of the Net, and she was a 2014 finalist. Gabrielle won the 2015 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition. Press 53 published her first book, When She Was Bad, in 2016. Gabrielle earned her MFA through Converse College.

Visit Gabrielle’s Website

http://gabriellebrantfreeman.squarespace.com/

Buy Gabrielle’s Beautiful Book! At Press 53!

http://www.press53.com/Gabrielle_Brant_Freeman.html

Praise for When She Was Bad

Lust. Love. Betrayal and loyalty. Temptation and hilarity. Gabrielle Freeman dissects her speakers’ hearts, tenderly, with supreme attention to what it is to be human, female, and fierce. Gabrielle Freeman’s poems are bad–by which I mean badass bold. Michael Jackson bad. Freeman’s bad and you know it. That’s why you read her. When She Was Bad is a smart, compassionate, tightly crafted and explosive debut. — Denise Duhamel

Read More from Gabby Online

http://gabriellebrantfreeman.squarespace.com/poems-1/

http://ciderpressreview.com/tag/gabrielle-freeman/#.WBc8rdUrKM8

http://www.chagrinriverreview.com/gabrielle-freeman.html

Hear Gabby Read!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnC84HvJl94

You don’t want to miss this poet!

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary