 Deserted Highway, Mojave Desert, photography by Alexis Rhone Fancher (USA) 2025 The Ekphrastic Review is thrilled to have the incredible Alexis Rhone Fancher as this challenge's guest editor and artist! A big welcome to Alexis, who is known for her widely published photography and for many amazing books, including Erotic, The Dead Kid Poems, Enter Here, Brazen, Junkie Wife, and more. You can visit her site here: https://www.alexisrhonefancher.com/.
** Dear Ekphrastic Readers and Writers, I have long been a fool for ekphrastic poems. Some visual artists are adept at creating art that allows the viewer to enter the art, make themselves a part of it and then write about it. Such works of art tease me, even dare me to step inside. Edward Hopper is one such artist. So much empty space in his canvases. Leonora Carrington is another painter who dazzles me. And occasionally, a photograph of mine seems to tempt me as well, which led me to create DUETS, a collaboration between myself and my long-time editing/creating partner, poet Cynthia Atkins. We wrote to my photos over a one-year period, and realized we had a book, which was published in 2022, by Harbor Editions. It’s always a pleasure to be published in The Ekphrastic Review. Over the past few years they’ve published several of my ekphrastic poems. I’m a poet, writer, art lover and also a photographer, and there’s so much convergence in these pages that speaks to me. I’m delighted to be a guest editor with my own photo, one which I hope will invite you to enter my desert landscape, and then write about your journey. I look forward to reading your poems and stories. Alexis Rhone Fancher ** Join us for biweekly ekphrastic writing challenges. See why so many writers are hooked on ekphrasis! We feature some of the most accomplished, influential writers working today, and we also welcome emerging or first time writers and those who simply want to experience art in a deeper way or try something creative. The prompt this time is Deserted Highway, Mojave Desert, by Alexis Rhone Fancher. Deadline is February 28, 2025. You can submit poetry, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, microfiction, or any other form creative writing you like. 1000 words max please. The Rules 1. Use this visual art prompt as a springboard for your writing. It can be a poem or short prose (fiction or nonfiction.) You can research the artwork or artist and use your discoveries to fuel your writing, or you can let the image alone provoke your imagination. 2. Write as many poems and stories as you like. Send only your best works or final draft, not everything you wrote down. (Please note, experimental formats are difficult to publish online. We will consider them but they present technical difficulties with web software that may not be easily resolved.) Please copy and paste your submission into the body of the email, even if you include an attachment such as Word or PDF. 3. There is no mandatory submission fee, but we ask you to consider a voluntary donation to show your support to the time, management, maintenance, and promotion of The Ekphrastic Review. It takes an incredible amount of time to curate the journal, read regular and contest submissions, etc. Paying all expenses out of pocket is also prohibitive. Thank you. A voluntary gift does not affect the selection process in any way. Scroll down to donate $5CAD (about $3.75 USD). 4. USE THIS EMAIL ONLY. Send your work to [email protected]. Challenge submissions sent to the other inboxes will most likely be lost as those are read in chronological order of receipt, weeks or longer behind, and are not seen at all by guest editors. They will be discarded. Sorry. 5.Include FANCHER CHALLENGE in the subject line. 6. Include your name and a brief bio. If you do not include your bio, it will not be included with your work, if accepted. Even if you have already written for The Ekphrastic Review or submitted other works and your bio is "on file" you must include it in your challenge submission. 7. Late submissions will be discarded. Sorry. 8. Deadline is midnight EST, February 28, 2025. 9. Please do not send revisions, corrections, or changes to your poetry or your biography after the fact. If it's not ready yet, hang on to it until it is. 10. Selected submissions will be published together, with the prompt, one week after the deadline. 11. Due to the demands of the increasing volume of submissions, we do not send out sorry notices or yes letters for challenge submissions. You will see what poetry and stories have been selected when the responses are posted one week after the deadline. Understand that we value your participation as part of our ekphrastic community, but we can only choose a handful of the many entries we receive. 12. A word on the selection process: we strive for a balance between rewarding regular participants and sharing the voices of writers who are new to our family. We also look for a variety of perspectives and styles, and a range of interesting takes on the painting. It is difficult to reproduce experimental formatting, so unfortunately we won't choose many with unusual spacing or typography. 13. By submitting to The Ekphrastic Review, you are also automatically joining our subscribers' list. Your submission is your permission. We don't send spam and we don't send many emails- you will not receive forty-four emails a day! Our newsletter occasionally updates you on some of the challenges, news, contests, prize nominations, ekphrastic happenings, prompt ebooks, workshops, and more. 14. Rinse and repeat with upcoming ekphrastic writing challenges! 15. Please share this prompt with your writing groups, Facebook groups, social media circles, and anywhere else you can. The simple act of sharing brings readers to The Ekphrastic Review, and that is the best way to support the poets and writers on our pages! 16. Check this space every Friday for new challenges and selected responses, alternating weekly.
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