This year, the Indiana Writers Center, Dance Kaleidoscope, Jewish Community Center, and Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library are partnering to present, Leave Them Something, a Spirit and Place program inspired by Edith Vonnegut’s artwork on environmental justice.

We invite you to use one of her paintings as a springboard to explore the devastating effects of climate change and/or imagine what the future will look like for ourselves and our children when we do what’s needed to reverse them. Poetry, short fiction, and essays will be considered for inclusion in an online anthology to be published in November. Dance Kaleidoscope dancers will choose 10-12 entries to choreograph and perform at “Leave Them Something” on Sunday, November 14 at the JCC Indy.

You may view Edith Vonnegut’s paintings at: https://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/edithvonnegutexhibit/

Deadlines
Work must be submitted by September 17 to be considered for choreography by Dance Kaleidoscope dancers. Work submitted by September 17 will also be considered for the online anthology, whether or not it is chosen to be part of the performance.

Stories submitted by October 4 will be considered only for the online anthology.

To help prepare your submission, we are offering two free Zoom classes in worldbuilding and writing about art:

Leave Them Something: Writing about Art with Barbara Shoup: https://www.indianawriters.org/product/writing-about-art/
Leave Them Something: World Building with Saundra Mitchell: https://www.indianawriters.org/product/leave-them-something-worldbuilding/

Read the full guidelines and find out how to submit your work here.