Ekphrastic Writing Challenge: Fidelio Ponce de Leon

Ninos, by Fidelio Ponce de Leon (Cuba) 1939.

Ekphrastic Writing Challenge

Join us for biweekly ekphrastic writing challenges. See why so many writers are hooked on ekphrastic!

We feature some of the most accomplished influential poets writing 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. 

Thank you to everyone who participated in our last writing challenge featuring the work of Marianne von Werefkin, which ends today at midnight. (Click here to see the von Werefkin challenge.) Accepted responses for the von Werefkin challenge will be published on May 10, 2019. 

The prompt this time is Ninos, by Fidelio Ponce de Leon. Deadline is May 17, 2019.

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. Send your work in the body of the email, please. You can include a pdf or other file to verify format and italics, but if we can't open attachments we won't be able to read your work.

3. Have fun.

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 FIDELIO PONCE DE LEON WRITING CHALLENGE in the subject line in all caps please. 

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. Do not send it after acceptance or later; it will not be added to your poem. Guest editors may not be familiar with your bio or have access to archives. We are sorry about these technicalities, but have found that following up, requesting, adding, and changing later takes too much time and is very confusing. 

7. Late submissions will be discarded. Sorry. 

8. Deadline is midnight, May 17, 2019.

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. Rinse and repeat with upcoming ekphrastic writing challenges!

NEWS

We have been featuring occasional guest editors for the ekphrastic challenges.

We're hoping this will inspire us in unexpected ways, add new flavours and perspectives to the journal, foster community, and widen readership.

Upcoming guest editors include Kyle Laws, Joan Leotta, and Janette Schafer.