NEW CHALLENGE-LITERARY IMPULSE

When Painting And Words Combine

An interesting new series

From The Editors:-

Hope everyone’s doing well, and staying safe.

After the humungous success of “Uncommon Fiction Forms” and “Uncommon Poetry forms”, we’re back with another challenge.

Here are the details for you all:-

Challenge Name:- When Words and Painting combine- Part 1 What you need to do:- Take a look at the above painting, look deeply. What does it try to convey. Feel it. And put your pen to paper. Express it. Share it with us. We’re waiting to read your words about what this gorgeous painting made you scribble. Be it poetry, fiction, non-fiction. Feel free to share with us anything that the painting has made you feel. Mandatory tags:- Literary Impulse, LI-WWAPC Mandatory:- Please use this image in your post and provide credit to the Illustrator, Era Garg. You can use another image of your choice, if you want. Mandatory:- Please do drop a link to this post at the end so that anyone else can read and submit, if interested. Non-mandatory:- Please do tag any three or more of your favourite writer friends on Medium so as to keep the challenge moving forward. Timelines:- 2 Weeks from February 5. And after that, a new illustration from another excellent illustrator. Keep checking.

You can submit any number of pieces you want.

There’ll a new section on our homepage to show the work of the amazing writers on this.

We’re already waiting to see what wonders the amazing Medium community conjures out of it all. Excited to the fullest!!

Please stay safe and take care.

Now that the rules are clear, please find below some words from the Illustrator herself.

From the Illustrator, Era Garg:-

About the painting:- A submerged leaf entering meditatative depths – indifferent to pulsating murmurs of life around and above – Occupying the interstice between life and death – yet thankful to sunrays penetrating it’s decaying cells – One day succumbing to transience of matter – mingling in endless energy – for a new birth on a fresh bough.

This watercolor on is paper titled “Succumbing”.

Medium Editors:- Priyanka Srivastava/ Elisabeth Khan/ Nachi Keta/ Somsubhra Banerjee

Tagging a few of our regular contributors and well-wishers. This is not to spam your notifications. But just to let you know so that if you are interested, you can chip in with your fantastic wordplay. Please let us know in case you do not want to be tagged in the future and we’ll keep that in mind. Thanks!

Jonah Lightwhale/ Samantha Lazar/ William J Spirdione/ David Rudder/ Jessica Lee McMillan/ Upasana Sharma/ Joseph Lieungh/ Pablo Pereyra/ Lee Ameka/ Dr. Preeti Singh/ Paroma Sen/ Jack Herlocker /Jessica Lee McMillan/ James G Brennan/ Tree Langdon/ Jenine Bsharah Baines/ Deborah Barchi/ Pierre Trudel/ Shalini C/ Iva Hotko/ Dr. Jackie Greenwood/ Vinitha Dileep/ Erika Burkhalter/ Ruchi Thalwal/ R. Rangan PhD/ Chris Mooney-Singh/ Eli Snow/ Joe Barca/ Era Garg/ Aparna Das Sadhukhan/ Sylvia Wohlfarth/ Wolfie Bain/ Dr. Fatima Imam/ James G Brennan/ Saurabh/ Adam, Diabetic Cyborg/ Lubna Yusuf/ Ruchi Thalwal/ Venkataraman Mahalingam/ Iva Hotko/ Iulia Halatz/ Unni Nambiar/ Sylvia Wohlfarth/ Franco Amati/ Wolfie Bain/ Carolyn Hastings/ Frank Moone/ Erika Burkhalter/ Monoreena Acharjee Majumdar/ Era Garg/ Marcus/ Anne Chisom/ Setraj Jahan/ Mario López-Goicoechea/ Penofgold/ Viraji Ogodapola/ Venkataraman Mahalingam/ Frank Larkin/ Margie Willis/ CARMEN F MICSA/ Iulia Halatz/ Saurabh/ Stephen Chamberlin/ Souminibanerjee/ Tej/ Monoreena Acharjee Majumdar/ Lubna Yusuf/ John O'Neill/ Monika Sharma/ Erika Burkhalter

Apologies if we’ve missed anyone. Please feel free to join in. Also, do let us know if you want to write for LI by dropping a comment on this post.

Our Introductory post on this series by Priyanka:-

Do definitely check out some of Era’s amazing artwork made for ShabdAaweg Review, for the winter edition, through the below link:-