At Auroras & Blossoms, we enjoy learning about the creative process. We also believe that each artist has valuable knowledge, tips, and insights that deserve to be shared with the world. This, in turn, makes their work even more valuable to audiences. That’s why we are starting the Insider Tip Roundup Series. Once every two or three months, we will ask you a specific question, and we will publish your most insightful answers (with full credits) in a roundup post on our blog. Today, we need your answers to this question: What is your number one tip to motivate you to create art that makes ..read more

Hello folks! As anthology editors, we believe that it is important to support fellow artists and editors. Welcome to our Positive Art Listings! The Positive Art Listings have a simply goal, and it is to help your submission calls and artistic events to reach a larger audience. They will be published once a month in the form of a post on our blog. NB: We vet every call we receive to ensure that it is family-friendly. However, we are not responsible for the content published by other magazines and platforms. As always, read guidelines carefully before submitting. Current Positive Art Listings Z ..read more

Hello there everyone! We are excited share with you more of our series dedicated to inspirational art through the ages. This series seeks to highlight classical pieces that make our hearts skip a beat, are likely to brighten your day, and will help your artistic creativity! Today’s pick is a gorgeous piece of art known as “Festoon of Flowers” by Hendrick Schoock. Hendrik Schoock, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons “Festoon of Flowers” is a stunning painting created by artist Hendrick Schoock, circa 1675. He was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He had already become a history painter ..read more

The PoArtMo Mini-Reviews are short, quick-read reviews written by members of the PoArtMo Collective. Our goal is to introduce you to art (books, documentaries, movies, etc.) that you may not be familiar with, and that both adults and youths alike can enjoy. Today’s mini-review was written by Azelle Elric. Uchū Densetsu Yurishīzu Sātīwan – Ulysses 31 Genre: French-Japanese anime series. Action, adventure, science-fiction, fantasy. Year: Originally aired in France from October 1981 to April 1982 (26 episodes) Creators: Jean Chalopin and Nina Wolmark Summary: 31st century, space base of Tro ..read more

Hello everyone, We have some very sad news to share with you all. We have made the extremely difficult and painful decision to stop running our magazine.  What Happened?? The magazine has been a bone of contention with certain people for months. Some artists have threatened to defame us because we would not bow to demands that no magazine would be prepared to accept under any circumstances. Others have accused us of running a vanity publishing scheme because we charge nominal submission fees and ask for donations so that our free submitters (who took advantage of our former free entry ro ..read more

Hello everyone! That’s it! Auroras & Blossoms Creative Literary Journal (Issue 2) is out! Join us today at 3pm PT / 5 pm CT / 6 pm ET for a special PoArtMo Show celebrating the release of the issue. You can watch the show on Facebook or YouTube. Issue 2 is available for the special price of $6.99 $4.99 until April 21, 2021! Just click on the cover below to purchase your copy. Note to everyone: As editors, we vet submissions carefully to ensure that they check all the publication boxes. We also rely on an artist’s honesty when they fill out our form. Unfortunately, despite our best effor ..read more

Hello everyone! Many of you have inquired about our PoArtMo Prompt Series, which we ran for several months last year. We are excited to announce that we are bringing the series back! But this time, there is a twist. Submissions can only be sixku, kindku, pareiku, or flashku, the forms that we invented. We will publish a new theme once a month. What’s in it for you? Well, the chance to be featured in a future issue of our magazine or even in a future anthology! Today’s prompt is “Newspaper”. What kind of story/stories would you write if you were responsible for creating the first eve ..read more

Hello folks! Cendrine recently created a new literary genre that fits perfectly what we do at Auroras & Blossoms. We believe that its uniqueness will appeal to many of you! It’s called the Flashku. The flashku is a short flash fiction piece that borrows elements from the sixku, the kindku, and the haiku. So, basically, it’s poetic prose! How does it work? The rules are very simple: 50-100 words only. 7 words must be taken from another piece (credits mandatory) Inspired by an image (permission and credits mandatory) Minimal descriptions Climax at about 80% through the piece (not a hard ru ..read more

Hello folks, The Inspirational Art Series seeks to highlight classical pieces that make our hearts skip a beat, are likely to brighten your day, and will help your artistic creativity! Today’s pick is the painting titled “Path through a Field of Bluebonnets” (1920s). Source: WikiArt Also known as “the father of Texas painting”, Robert Julian Onderdonk (1882-1922) painted many bluebonnet landscapes in his career. The oil painting above is one of his most famous pieces. “Path through a Field of Bluebonnets” is a very charming painting. The simplicity of the brushwork helps establish a dreamy (al ..read more

The Inspirational Artist Series spotlights some of the artists featured in our issues and anthologies, and who have moved us in specific ways. Today’s guest is Writer Nonkululeko Nxumalo, whose flash fiction piece will appear in the next issue of the Auroras & Blossoms Creative Literary Journal. How does a story begin for you? Does it start with an image, a form or a particular theme? I draw inspiration from events that happened in my life or are currently happening. Other times it would simply be inspiration from other people’s experiences, with a whole lot of fiction. So for me, a story ..read more