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May/June 2013
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. IMPORTANT: If your work is a story or focuses on another topic, please check out The Slam or General Submissions. We DO NOT accept stories for Creative Endeavors.
This Challenge theme will remain in effect through June 30 with selected poems and artwork to appear in the September/October 2013 issue of Cicada®.
YOUR CHALLENGE THEME: SOMETHING SPECIAL
Think of the "something specials" that catch you unawares as you hurtle through your busy days. Maybe it's something that takes your breath away or just makes you pause in the headlong rush to your next class. Maybe it's the way golden sunlight floods a room in the late afternoon or a perfect note of music that hovers in the air. Is it sinking the winning basket nanoseconds before the buzzer or sinking into a really, really good book?
Think of something simple that lifts your spirits, and then answer the Call for Creative Endeavors. Your challenge theme: Something Special!
Send us an original piece of artwork, photo, or poem on the topic SOMETHING SPECIAL, 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:
