Can you knock out a story in four days? Our sub call closes at 8pm (UK time) on Sunday 🦝
We're celebrating the Kingdom of Plantae, here are some quick ideas to get you thinking 💚
Our Mood Board:
trashcatlit.com/summer-mood/
Guidelines and sub link:
trashcatlit.com/general-subm…
The bin's a little sad to report that we've not had many submissions to our Kingdom of Plantae call so far. We hope it's because you're all still writing and editing and stuffs before the deadline🤞.
We know June's a busy lit subs month, but we hope to see your words🦝
Thinking of subbing to our "green" themed call? 🦝🌳
Here's some ideas of how you can use plant characteristics to show very human behaviour and feelings.
More ideas here:
trashcatlit.com/summer-mood/
Guidelines and sub form here:
trashcatlit.com/general-subm…
'On the Beach,' (1891) was one of Maurice Denis' first experiments in capturing the elusive quality of how light moves on the surface of water; a source of constant inspiration as he focused on themes for pictures during summer holidays on the Brittany coast.
Eleanor Best trained at the Slade in London and was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers during the years when there was a revival of interest in both mezzotint and aquatint, evident in this work from around 1925.
Selected for The Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery, London (on show from next month).
“Tayo Aluko.”
Acrylic on wood.
30x20cm.
If you missed our Spring Pop-Up call, here's what's coming next 🦝
Our Summer General submissions open 1st-14th June for Flash (100-750) and Shorts (up to 2000).
There's a theme of GREEN BIN STORIES and a mood board to offer inspo:
trashcatlit.com/summer-mood/
Harvard University, to their eternal glory, has provided online recordings of hundreds of authors who have graced their stages over the past century.
We are talking Siegfried Sassoon (!), Dylan Thomas, W.H. Auden, E.M. Forster, and more.
Dive in!
hollis.harvard.edu/discovery…
Our last day of micro spotlights and we have a triplet of treasures 🦝
We loved @StuartCavet's take on parasitic behaviour, the surreal nature of this tight micro and how this unexpected parasite contemplates choice.
Read and listen:
trashcatlit.com/parasite/