Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words
One image, one hour, 50-500 words.
The picture is the starting point, the text is up to you.
Volume 02, Chapter 05 of Visual Verse is now open for submissions
Guest Editor: Kate Nic Dhomhnaill
In honour of the infamous St Patrick, celebrated on March 17th, we dedicate this issue to Ireland and its enticing list of extraordinary emerging writers. Our lead author, Sara Baume, is arguably one of Ireland’s brightest literary stars, having won the Davy Byrnes Short Story Award in 2014 and named Hennessy New Irish Writer of 2015. She has recently released her debut novel spill simmer falter wither with Tramp Press. Joining Sara are fellow Ireland-based writers Róisín Agnew, Claire-Louise Bennett and Daniel Gray. Irish Times journalist, Róisín Agnew, is editor of Guts Magazine, a new and brilliantly designed litmag out of Dublin; Claire-Louise Bennett’s collection of flash fiction, Pond, will be published by The Stinging Fly in April 2015; and Daniel Gray is a journalist and editor at large for Totally Dublin.
This month’s visual prompt is a wonderful, irreverent image from artist Dominic Goodman. Goodman is a Fine Art graduate from Central Saint Martins and works in a variety of media covering photography, film, music and art while also co-running music labels YYAA Recordings and Hallso. His photography often focuses on unoccupied spaces, raising questions over events that may have occurred, or perhaps will occur, outside of the confines of the image. Perfect for you, dear writers.
So, what will you make of our image this month? A lonely ass and an empty pool – can you see beyond the confines of this image, just as our artist intends?
Visit www.visualverse.org to see, read and submit your writing to this month’s Visual Verse: Anthology of Art and Words.
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