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Jan/Feb 2012
Cicada challenges our talented and creative readers to answer the Call for Creative Endeavors. For the current theme and rules, cast your wondering eyes below. The Arbiters of Creative Endeavors will choose a few selections to run in upcoming issues of Cicada. Fame if not fortune is at your fingertips!
Your poem, photo, or artwork should reflect the theme of the current Call for Creative Endeavors below. If your work is a story or focuses on another topic, please check out The Slam or General Submissions.
This Challenge theme will remain in effect through February 29 with selected poems and artwork to appear in the May/June 2012 issue of Cicada®.
YOUR CHALLENGE THEME: POSSIBILITY
Possibility: potential, fresh prospects, freedom, risk, the sky's the limit
"Thue ... turned her eyes to the treasure. It covered the bottom of the boat and part of the pallet. Not as much as Druian deserved but still more than Thue had seen in one place before: coins and brooches and silver buckles.
"And it was hers, enough to make her not only rich but free."
from "The Grave-Bride" (page 13)
In "The Grave-Bride," Thue wakes up to find herself cast adrift as the sole living occupant of a Viking-era grave-boat. Despite her predicament, Thue sees possibility in having loosed her moorings. Does she go back? Can she go back? What lies ahead? Aha! The rules and regs of daily living, as a thrall no less, no longer apply. Think of the possibilities.
And that's exactly what we want you to do for this issue's Call for Creative Endeavors. Imagine yourself cast adrift, metaphorically speaking, with the future wide open for the taking. Carpe diem! It's the start of a new year, and it's all about Possibility.
Send us an original piece of artwork, photo, or poem on the topic POSSIBILITY, and if we publish your submission in Cicada, you will receive two complimentary copies of the issue to share with admiring family and friends. Your theme-related artwork will be (1) any amalgamation of black, white, and/or gray, (2) any style or medium, and (3) up to 8½ x 11 inches in size. Photos can be black-and-white or color, and poems 30 lines or less.
Send your Creative Endeavors online by using the form below. Any work received digitally will not be returned.
Optionally, you may mail your submissions to:
For artwork/photos:
Cicada Arbiter of Creative Endeavors
70 E. Lake Street
Suite 300
Chicago, IL 60601
Note: If you mail artwork, please send original art/photo or a digital file of the scanned work at 300 dpi. Any non-digital artwork received through the mail and accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope will be returned.
For poems:
Cicada Arbiter of Creative Endeavors
P.O. Box 300
Peru, IL 61354
Online Submission Form:
