Current Prompts:

Introducing the prompts for Volume 3. You will have until the 1st of July to respond to any or all of these pieces of art. Once you have done so, you can submit your work here.

Prompt 1:

Untitled, Selen Tonkul, Pen and Paper, 2026

Prompt 2:

Extract from Sappho ‘94’

‘I answered: Go happily

and remember me -

you know how we cared for you.


If not, let me remind you 

* 

…the lovely times we shared. 


Many crowns of violets,

roses, and crocuses together 

…you put on by my side 


and many scented wreaths 

woven from blossoms

around your delicate throat.’

Prompt 3:

Fawn, Tom Waits, 2002

Tom Waits - "Fawn"
Tom Waits

Prompt 4:

The Progress of a Soul: The Victory, Phoebe Anna Traquair, silk and gold thread embroidered on linen, 1902

Untitled ©Selen Tonkul. Artwork used with artist permission.

Extract from Sappho taken from ‘94’ in Sapho: A New Translation of the Complete Works, trans. by Diane J. Rayor, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), p. 78 (ll. 6-17).

Recording of Fawn taken from Tom Waits on Youtube. © 2026 Tom Waits & ANTI Records.

Photograph of The Progress of a Soul: TheVictory taken by © Sketches Magazine 2026.

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