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August 9, 2016
Important Call for Submissions Love <3 New Madrid
Seeking Submissions for Winter 2017 Theme Issue, “Imagining Peace”
Deadline: October 15, 2016
“We are dedicating the Winter 2017 issue of New Madrid to the theme of “Imagining Peace.” As George Bernard Shaw wrote, “Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.” We are looking for work in all literary genres that speaks to this arduousness and that defines peace not just as the absence of war, but as something dynamic in its own right. Possible categories of interest include: writing by peace activists and refugees, testimonies about immigration or international crises, travel writing, translations, and much more. An in-depth explanation can be found on our website. We will be accepting submissions from August 15 through October 15, 2016.”
Visit their website: www.newmadridjournal.org
Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Sometimes the Prompt Is All About What You Believe
6 August 2016
Time with my daughter, son-in-law, and that miraculous GrandPerson. Looking into my grandson’s eyes, I can see eternity❤
Make art about what you see in a child’s eyes.
7 August 2016
Love coming home to find tomatoes ripening to red, okra reaching fingers to the sky, even those last cucumbers still making their climb up the trellis[image error]
Deep within each one of us lies a garden.~ Julie Moir Messervy
Make art about the garden that lies within you.
8 August 2016
Had the chance today to spend time with my sister and a beautiful cousin I haven’t seen in years. So good for my heart!
Make art about extended family.
9 August 2016
Thinking on this today.
Make art about the power of belief.
Monday Must Read! Jerry D. Mathes II: Fever and Guts: A Symphony
Had a chance to see my sister and a beautiful cousin I haven’t seen in years yesterday, so we’re a day late, but I promise this writer is worth the wait! :-)
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This week meet Jerry D. Mathes II, author of Fever and Guts: A Symphony, Ahead of the Flaming Front (winner of the North American Book Award), The Journal West, Fall in the Borderland, and the forthcoming collection of short stories, Shipwrecks and Other Stories. Jerry is a Jack Kent Cooke alumnus and is also the author of Still Life: A Novella, winner of the Meadow Prize for the Novella. His photography, poems, essays, and short stories, have won numerous awards. In 2011, he produced a short film, “Drinking Sangria in the Cold War,” which was adapted from one of his award winning short stories. He has worked as a martial arts instructor, an armor crewman, a construction worker, hotel auditor, car salesman, repo-man, delivery guy, cable guy, went logging, worked in forestry, crewed on several types of fishing vessels, fought wildfire on a helicopter-rappel crew, taught writing at the University of Idaho and Stephen F. Austin State University and taught the Southernmost Writers Workshop in the World at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Antarctica during the 2009-2010 and 2011-2012 Austral summer seasons where he worked in logistics. He also wrote and directed two short films while at the South Pole. In 2012 he produced a video essay about wildfire. He loves his two daughters very much.
Jerry’s Website
Buy Jerry’s Books!
Pre-Order Shipwrecks and Other Stories!
https://www.amazon.com/Shipwrecks-other-Stories-Jerry-Mathes/dp/1622881338
Fever and Guts: A Symphony
https://www.amazon.com/Fever-Guts-Symphony-Jerry-Mathes/dp/1936205858/
Ahead of the Flaming Front
http://caxtonpress.com/aheadoftheflamingfrontalifeonfire.aspx
Fall in the Borderland
https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=1015
Read More from Jerry Online
http://www.narrativemagazine.com/authors/jerry-d-mathes-ii
https://thesunmagazine.org/_media/article/pdf/436_Mathes.pdf
https://www.guernicamag.com/daily/jerry-d-mathes-ii-three-easter-sundays/
http://www.snreview.org/0108Mathes.html
http://www.boxcarpoetry.com/009/mathes_jerry_001.html
https://spaceslitmag.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/in-fire/
Jerry on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/user/jdmathes
Happy Reading!
Xo
Mary
August 5, 2016
Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Cactus Elbow
Cactus Elbow Call for Submissions Volume 2
Deadline: Rolling
“Send us your lovely words! We are looking for poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, translations, humor, political satire, flash fiction, flash creative nonfiction, memoir, cross-genre, photography, and artwork in most mediums. This journal does not accept genre such as romance, mystery, or sci-fi. However, we do accept dystopian fiction. We love to see the artistic skills and tackle box (syntax, diction, tone) of a writer always, and usually we enjoy writing for a social issue, because we know you have your opinions, too. We are escapists, but sometimes we want to be realists.”
Their website: https://cactuselbow.com/
Please email submissions to cactuselbow@gmail.com
Daily Prompt Love <3 Sometimes the Prompt is an Ice Cream Memory, or a Soft Sparkle in the Dark
2 August 2016
Bought my great-nephew his own ice cream maker and together we made his first homemade ice cream. He declared it was “the best ever!”
Make art about an ice cream memory.
3 August 2016
Had a great conversation with Road Angel Casey, who left her job at Duke University to start a small organic farm, selling vegetables and flowers, nut butters and preserves from a roadside stand.
Make art about taking the risk to grow a dream.
4 August 2016
A woman at a gas station came running toward me, smiling and waving and yelling, “Donna! Donna! I haven’t seen you in so long!” I smiled, shaking my head, waiting for her to realize that I wasn’t Donna after all. As she reached me, her face fell, and she looked so embarraassed, and I said, “I’m sorry.” She laughed and said, “No, I’m sorry. I could’ve sworn–” She laughed. I said, “I’m Mary, but I bet you could find Donna, if you looked. Have you tried Facebook?” I told her about finding my friend Lynne again after many years, and how blessed we both felt. She said, “I haven’t looked for her, but I think I will.” She left smiling, and I finished pumping my gas, climbing back into my car, wishing, for just a second, I had been Donna, this friend who brought such a smile to the woman’s face.
Make art about mistaken identity. Or about finding that wonderful friend again.
5 August 2016
Dreamt I was in a crowded park handing out sparklers. So many sparklers, so many people. Before too long, the park was shimmering with light and color.
Make art about ways of sharing Light.
August 1, 2016
Daily Prompt Love <3 Gettin Elemental
30 July 2016
Finally got started on my summer canning.
Make art about preserving something.
31 July 2016
“We move to find what we cannot see”~David Wagoner
Make art about forms of blindness.
1 August 2016
Earth. Air. Fire. Water.
Make art about an elemental force.
Monday Must Read! Marie Manilla: The Patron Saint of Ugly
This week meet Marie Manilla, author The Patron Saint of Ugly, winner of the Weatherford Award. Her novel Shrapnel received the Fred Bonnie Award for Best First Novel. Still Life with Plums: Short Stories was a finalist for both The Weatherford Award and ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year. Marie is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in The Chicago Tribune, Prairie Schooner, Mississippi Review, Calyx, SouthWrit Large, and other journals. She’s also an incredibly kind and generous person.
Visit Marie’s Website Here: http://www.mariemanilla.com/
Buy Marie’s Beautiful Books!
The Patron Saint of Ugly
Still Life With Plums: Short Stories
http://www.wvupressonline.com/manilla_still_life_with_plums_9781933202600
Shrapnel
More from Marie Online
http://tetheredbyletters.com/fronline-short-story-laser-beam/
http://www.cleavermagazine.com/belle-fleur-by-marie-manilla/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNVI2ki_6KE
http://wvupressonline.com/author_bio/manilla
http://monkeybicycle.net/dragonfly/
http://dev.writersdojo.org/author/mariemanilla/
Interviews, Reviews, and Blogs
http://www.mariemanilla.com/interviewsreviewsblogs.htm
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
July 29, 2016
Daily Prompt <3 You Know…That Woman
29 July 2016
Mama always said I came into the world asking forgiveness instead of permission.
Make art about fearless women.
July 28, 2016
Call For Submissions Love <3 Lumina: Borders and Boundaries
LUMINA, Vol. XVI: Borders and Boundaries
Deadline: September 15, 2016
We are looking for bold, beautiful, and new interpretations of all the ways we interface with borders and boundaries in our world: travel, immigration, maps, gender, sexuality, love, citizenship, race, the physical body, language, death, the interior vs. the exterior, atmospheric layers, psychological barriers, prisons, fences, rules and relationships, challenging the boundaries among genres, and anything else this theme conjures up.
Lumina website: luminajournal.com
Full Submissions Guidelines here: https://luminajournal.com/submission-...
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