Category: Prompts

  • SUBMISSIONS OPEN: APRIL 1ST – APRIL 29TH “His passion and his profession is to merge with the crowd. For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer, it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite.” – The Painter…

    April Prompt: Flâneur
  • SUBMISSIONS OPEN FEBRUARY 3RD – FEBRUARY 28TH “A Poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he exhausts within himself all poisons and preserves their quintessence’s.” – Arthur Rimbaud in a letter to Paul Demeny (May…

    February Prompt: Le Voyant
  • SUBMISSIONS OPEN: JANUARY 21ST – JANUARY 31ST “You see, life is a cut-up, every time you walk down the street or look out the window, your consciousness is caught by random factors and then you begin to realise they’re not so random. That this is saying something to you.”- William S. BurroughsCollaging, juxtaposing, splicing together…

    January Prompt: Bewebbed
  • SUBMISSIONS OPEN: DECEMBER 1ST – DECEMBER 27TH “Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”- The Second Coming, W. B. Yeats. ‘The Great Wheel’ from A Vision, W. B. Yeats. As the year bounds towards its inevitable conclusion, it becomes difficult to think of…

    December Prompt: The Great Wheel

The Café Society is an online magazine featuring original prompts which focus on the mind and the work of the artist. All works submitted come together at the end of the month to construct a catalogue of creations.

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