Looking for some prompts for creativity?  Here you’ll find not one, not two but three suggestions! Find out more about (1) Resolve to Make it New, (2) The Art of Energy and (3) Windows on poetry. 

Firstly, this year, Fife Contemporary‰’s collaboration with StAnza Poetry Festival 2021 is an online exhibition (Resolve to Make it New), and we‰’re looking for your participation! If you‰’ve spent some of the weeks and months of lockdown (any of them!) mending something that you thought was past saving, or writing down your thoughts about how you‰’ve come to realise the importance of’making new‰’, please email Fife Contemporary (mail@fcac.co.uk):

‰Û¢ a poem of up to 20 lines, OR

‰Û¢ up to 3 images of your renewed object with up to 100 words of description

Please put Make it New in the subject line of your email.

StAnza Poetry Festival 2021 runs from 6-14 March 2021, but Resolve to Make it New has just gone live now, and will remain on the website after the end of the festival. Please send in your poem or images/text as soon as you can! Fife Contemporary will continue to add them to the website until the festival begins.

https://www.fcac.co.uk/exhibitions/resolve-to-make-it-new/

Next, Energy Ethics are inviting submissions by 10 February for their event The Art of Energy | Energy Ethics on the following theme:

‰ÛÏHow would you artistically conceptualise our current energy predicament where we need to balance energy demand with concern about human-driven climate change? How can we make sense of the entanglement of life with energy in the past, present and future?‰Û

They are seeking art submissions of the following types/categories, and are offering cash awards for the top three finalists (å£1,000, å£250, å£150) across categories:

• Visual (photography, printmaking, drawing, painting, mixed media; maximum 5 images)
• Short Film & Media (video, filmmaking, performance, maximum 5 minutes in length)
• Sound Art (maximum 5 minutes in length)
• Spoken word, poems, written submissions and short essays (Maximum 800 words)

You can find more information at Art of Energy | Energy Ethics and the deadline for submissions is 10 February 2021 at 23:59 (GMT), and good luck to all those who submit.

And if that‰’s not for you, how about writing a lockdown window view poem? For our WindowSwap project at StAnza we‰’ve commissioned 12 poets from around the world to swap views from their window and write about the view they‰’re sent. Our project was inspired by the wonderful online app, WindowSwap (window-swap.com). At a time when around the world so many of us are in lockdown, we‰’re mostly experiencing the non-virtual world through the views from our windows, and how wonderful that the Window Swap app allows us to enjoy the views from so many other windows.

If any of the views you see – from your own window, from one of the window views on the Window Swap app, or even perhaps from the window view sent to you by a friend – inspire you to write a poem, we‰’d love to see it. If you‰’d like to share it with us on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, please use the hashtag #windowswap2021, and you can tag us at @StAnzaPoetry (Twitter), stanzapoetry (Instagram) or stanzapoetry (Facebook).

Happy writing!