Writing: you may submit up to TWO pages max in 12 pt. font, Times New Roman, 1.5 spaced, no extended margins!
Each person may submit up to two pieces in writing and two pieces in art
EMAIL SUBJECT: “Homegrown Submission”
*send a separate email for each submission*
In the email, include your name (keep the actual pdf anonymous), title of piece, and state whether it is art or writing, art is allowed a 1-3 sentence blurb to elaborate on work

WRITING PROMPTS

• As people grow, what aspects of their life (people, objects, places) grow with them and what stays the same?
• How does growth occur within groups or across generations?
  How does someone’s environment promote or prohibit growth? How can people grow despite obstacles in their environment?
• What is something that you would tell your younger self, knowing what you know now?
• How can you highlight the way growth can be both ugly and beautiful?
• How do parts of ourselves expire or rot as we continue to grow?
• How can you use connections to the physical growth of plants as a metaphor for other forms of growth?

ART PROMPTS

• How can you portray the connection between growth in nature and growth in humans?
• Show a series of images depicting growth or change, like stages of metamorphosis. Is your subject a person, or an object? What caused it to undergo this change?
• Take inspiration from botanical prints and diagrams, and show a more analytical perspective to the organic nature of change.
• How do things change as you age? How does that show in a physical form? (wrinkles, flower buds, tree trunk rings, height) Show the differences between youth and age.
• How can new life or progress come out of the remains of something else? Show a rebirth/renewal through your artwork.
• Depict a symbiotic relationship that compels growth between organisms and people.