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Friday Call For Submissions Love! Rathalla Review

Rathalla Review, the literary magazine of Rosemont College, is seeking submissions for the Spring 2016 online issue. Spring Reading period closes on March 18!

“Our mission is to give emerging and established writers and artists an outlet for their creative vision in our online and print publication. We publish the best fiction, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, and art, culled from a nationwide community of writers and artists. Rathalla Review’s staff, comprised of M.F.A. in Creative Writing and M.A. in Publishing candidates, merges the creative arts and the business of publishing into a shared voice and vision.”

Submission Guidelines here:

http://rathallareview.org/?page_id=29

 

Sometimes the Prompt Rips Us Up By the Roots

Daily Prompt

Virginia devastated by multiple tornadoes yesterday. Even growing up near the coast of NC, where hurricanes and tornadoes happened all the time, I’ve not seen destruction like some of what happened here yesterday. Praying for everyone hurt by the storms. Make art about the power of nature. 

New Publications :-) Thanks to the editors at The Grief Diaries!

Gratitude and Love to the editors at The Grief Diaries for giving the first Ghost poems a home These poems are from my newest as yet unpublished collection, entitled Death For Beginners. 


 


http://www.thegriefdiaries.org/poetry-by-mary-carrollhackett/2016/

Sometimes the Prompt Sees You Through

Daily Prompt

Make art about the preciousness of sight.

 

Daily Prompt Catch-Up! OooOooh That Smell!

2/21/2016

Crocus! Tiny purple blooms announcing the slow change of season today in the yard! Make art about the first signs of spring.

2/22/2016

I bought my first ever new car in 2010, and today, I paid that Lil Red Beauty off! I grew up poor, so this is a big deal for me, as someone who has had a very complicated relationship with money. Make art about finishing something. Or about your relationsip with money.

Grunge rubber stamp with text paid in full inside,vector illustration

2/23/2016

Did an exercise with my Baby Poets last night where they did freewrites in response to a scent. Make art about a memory evoked by a particular scent.

Monday Must Read! Tasha Cotter: Girl in the Cave

This week meet Tasha Cotter, the author of three poetry collections, including Some Churches (Gold Wake Press, 2013), That Bird Your Heart (Finishing Line Press, 2013), and Girl in the Cave (Tree Light Books, 2016). Winner of the 2015 Delphi Poetry Series, her work has appeared in journals such as Contrary Magazine, NANO fiction, and Booth. In 2015 she was named runner-up in the Carnegie Center’s Next Great Writer contest. A contributor to Women in Clothes (Blue Rider Press, 2014), The Poets on Growth Anthology (Math Paper Press, 2015), and the 2017 Poet’s Market (Writer’s Digest Books), she makes her home in Lexington, Kentucky where she works in higher education.

Buy Tasha’s books!

http://www.amazon.com/Tasha-Cotter/e/B00AO7JBX6

Read More From Tasha Online:

Superstition Review:

https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/

Interim Magazine:

http://interim.squarespace.com/

storySouth:

http://www.storysouth.com/2015/09/the-passing-of-everyone-else.html

Hear Tasha Read!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt8936wYw-g

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

Happy Reading, Y’all!

xo

Mary

Great Places To Find Calls For Submissions

Two great lists for writers :-) 

The wonderful and inimitable poet and unparalleled literary citizen Allison Joseph hosts one of the best resources at her Creative Writing Opportunities group on Yahoo (CRWROPPS for short) Check it out! 

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/crwropps-b/info

Another good one: Places For Writers :-)

http://www.placesforwriters.com/

Send that beautiful work out, y’all! 

Sometimes the Prompt Leads to Clarity

Daily Prompt

Make art about choosing where you focus. 

 

Sometimes the Prompt Opens Us Up

Daily Prompt


 


Harvard Launches Free Online Class To Promote Religious Literacy


 


Make art about tolerance.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/harvard-world-religions-online-class_us_56c76b55e4b041136f16dd0a?8a935wmi



 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-YQXRrNo70

Friday Call For Submissions Love <3 Uproot

UPROOT

Uproot is a literary journal housed at the University of Illinois Springfield whose main interest lies in place–more specifically, moving from place to place. We’re interested in geological and emotional estrangement, displacement, alienation, longing, and all of the other contradictory feelings associated with moving to a new/old location. We want to read and share literature that challenges notions of genre, work that pulls you up by the roots and plants you somewhere else, somewhere unexpected.

General Submission Guidelines:

We are especially interested in hybrid works, including flash fiction, prose poetry, and the lyric essay. Our only limitation is that submissions fall under 5,000 words and contain no more than 6 individual works.

Please submit work as either .doc/.docx file or PDF file as attachments.

We do not accept work that has been copied and pasted into the body of an email.

Please submit a brief 60 word bio written in the 3rd person.

Please send only original, unpublished work.

We do accept simultaneous submissions.

If your work has been published elsewhere please let us know so we can retract your submission.

We do not accept multiple submissions. We will only accept one submission per person per submission window.

Current submission window for next issue is 2/5/16-3/5/16.

Please send submissions to uprootmagATgmailDOTcom

UPROOT Website: https://uprootmag.wordpress.com/