Dot Hearn, Author & Artist

Another HAD submission opportunity! I'm including the link for submissions, which will take you to a "currently not available* page. At the stated time, it will open until they hit their cap (150 this time) - which will probably only be about 10-15 minutes 😉

-submission details-
The "Mike's Open to Whatever" Call!
I'm feeling open minded as hell. I want to read anything you feel like sending my way.

750ish words is probably the sweet spot here. Essays will have an unfair advantage. Poems will have an unfair disadvantage. But hey... you never know! I certainly don't!

I could even get into some "found" stuff, like a ridiculous email your boss sent you or screenshots of a text conversation with your pest control guy. Happy to publish them anonymously if they're sensitive.

Just remember: We're in this together!

And for simplicity's-sake, let's just say no multiples? Just send one thing, Thanks!

Submission window opens at 6 p.m. CST (7pm ET), Friday, January 26th, and caps at 150 submissions!

- Mike

This link will be live at 6pm CST, January 26th
Link will die and be buried as soon as we hit 150 submissions.

HAD Submission Manager WAS :We are taking a small break, something of a "bye quarter" in the parlance of the football theme that would have been Vol. 3, Issue 3 (January '24). Stay tined in January/February after we've rested.HAD :If a direct link to a submission call brought you to this main page, it is because we alrea...

I've taken several seasonal Haiku Poetry Comics classes with David Lasky - this is a wonderful class! It starts this coming Sunday 1/14. It is via Zoom. More information from the host, Push/Pull Seattle. I highly recommend! David is an experienced and skilled artist, and an excellent instructor.

Poetry Comics: Haiku Winter 2024 Tickets | Push/Pull Poetry Comics is back!Join us for this online class taught by award-winning comics artist David LaskyThis is a poetry comics class for winter, focusing on short haiku comics of roughly 3 or 4 panels.

Link in comments to sign up for their mailing list, in case you're not. This looks promising.

Psst. Our January newsletter hits Sunday. It will give an overview of our Jan-Feb edition and also share an exciting announcement. No spoilers until then, but if you ❤️flash CNF then you might want to check your inbox!

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There are more guidelines on their website, but here is a quick overview of the "What We Publish"
: Fiction: Submissions should generally not exceed twelve thousand* (12,000) words.

: Creative Nonfiction: Submissions should generally not exceed twelve thousand* (12,000) words. All genres of nonfiction (articles, reviews, memoirs, personal essay, cross-genre, etc.) are acceptable, though we rarely publish scholarly essays or literary criticism.

: Poetry: We like our poetry short. Submissions should be no more than thirty-five* (35) lines. Maximum four (4) poems per submission.

Submit to Sequestrum - Sequestrum Read & Write: Free subscriber submission details Current Themed Submissions: Slipstream, Magical Realism, and Optimism Submission Guidelines When ready to submit, use our online submission manager. Sequestrum is a competitive, paying market which publishes high-quality short fiction, nonfiction, poe...

excerpt: The FOLD Challenge: Reading and listening recommendations that encourage booklovers to thoughtfully consider their reading lists and ask one important question: Who’s missing?
Each year, the FOLD releases a twelve-challenge list in January, focusing on one challenge per month for the duration of the year. ..
As we say at the FOLD, diversity always takes more work…but it always reaps better results.

The FOLD Challenge - The FOLD Reading and listening recommendations that encourage booklovers to thoughtfully consider their reading lists and ask one important question: Who’s missing?

(brag😎) I just submitted my first writing of 2024. Off to an excellent start!

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I had a fantastic "life of writing" conversation with an author friend recently. Our conversation wove around and through many topics, including perspective and translation and intersectionality, culture and meaning and inner/outer experiences, sense of place and self and other. She recommended several books, movies, documentaries. And this. "The danger of a single story," a TED talk from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Powerful presentation. Under 20 minutes. Give it a watch/listen. It is open captioned and the transcription runs in time with the video.

The danger of a single story Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

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I was happy to discover that the livestream discussion with R.L. Stine from the NaNoWriMo team was recorded. Happy, because I had to miss it due to a meeting conflict. I'm also happy to share it with anyone else who is interested.

Webcast: How to Write Horror, with R.L. Stine Join horror-writing legend R.L. Stine as he shares ways to conquer writer’s block, develop plots, and build nail-biting suspense. Drawing upon decades of exp...

Submission window open until 12/31/2023.
"CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, accepts submissions of previously unpublished poetry, short fiction, visual art, essays, reviews, and interviews annually from October 1 – December 31. Multiple submissions are welcome. We are always open for submissions of art and book reviews."

General Submissions - CALYX General Submissions SUBMIT HERE CALYX Journal CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, accepts submissions of previously unpublished poetry, short fiction, visual art, essays, reviews, and interviews annually from October 1 – December 31. Multiple submissions are welcome. We are always ope...

Just over two weeks left in Sequestrum's "Reprints" themed issue to submit. Deadline 12/15.

Theme: Reprints - Sequestrum Every issue of Sequestrum features the best creative writing of today. Once a year, Sequestrum features the best creative writing of yesterday. The way we see it, the start of every publication cycle sends scores of outstanding writing from yesteryear to the literary wayside. (Not everyone so though...

NaNoWriMo Day 17 update over on The Writing Vein.

Day 17: NaNoWriMo 2023 Word Count at the beginning of 11/17/2023 = 66,515 Words written on 11/16 = 6847 The coast writing retreat has been exactly what I needed ...

Final sunset for the 2023 NaNoWriMo writing retreat. Even though I went into the retreat having already surpassed the 50k words writing goal, I've continued to write every day. And continued with edits on the manuscript. I am grateful for having this space to retreat to, for the ocean, for the sky fog blue breeze trees - the front row view to the best of the best oceans. Tomorrow head back to the city, cars, sounds, lights, the hurry.

Hanging out one more night, though!

No filter! The hanging lightshade where we're writing reflected against the sunset.

Submissions due one week from today!

submit now! guest judge: Morgan Talty

I am posting daily updates at The Writing Vein about my NaNoWriMo word count, story progress (or lack of ;-)), and other things which cross my brain path these days. Here is the update from November 10th, which includes my astronomically stellar word count day: a little over 14,000 words written in *one*day.* It was amazing. Much of that was due to 4TheWords quests in a Twitch group. You can read more about it below.

I am writing many words. I am finding that writing is helping ease some of the discomfort with the chaos in the world right now. It helps me pull myself back from that black hole edge of despair - even the times with my toes dangling over the edge, writing can bring me back.

That saying is true: "art saves lives." And sometimes the life saved is the creator's! (I'm fine! But I'm also not the dog drinking coffee while the house burns around him. I am very aware that the world community house is on fire.)

Day 10: NaNoWriMo 2023 Start of day word count = 36,239 Total words written Day 7 = 14,211 Thursday was a phenomenal writing day. Much of this was fueled by acti...

Day 3: NaNoWriMo 2023 Start of Day Three word count = 4758 It's too early to know how the month is going to go. But I'd say I'm off to a strong start. That's abou...

It's a thing I try to do: to post {daily-ish} about NaNoWriMo. A word count update. Rarely are there any excerpts from the writing because, well, it is definitely that sh*tty first draft everyone talks about. Sometimes it's even rougher than that. I'm a pantser, so there is no plan - other than a brief spark of an idea which came to me as I was driving to work on Sunday; or maybe it was Monday.

Here is my day two post. It's from the beginning of day two, and yes, I've already had two full long writing sessions to make my word count. This is also my process. Kick off the event with a midnight write-in and get the first day's words written before I go to bed. Then I write more later in the day, during "normal people hours." *smile* So I am starting Day Two with double word count!

Day 2: NaNovember 2023 End of Day One kickoff word count=1677 Start of Day Two word count=3353 I also thought I'd try Inktober/Cartoonistober/Drawtober last mo...