ROCKPORT — The next Forktale event will be in February at Salt Water Farm in Rockport, with celebrity chef Nef Duran. This time, the theme is: passion.

Forktale is now accepting submissions from the public.

Send in stories of passion, love, fire (literal or figurative), warmth, spice; anything that will heat up the long, cold winter in the Midcoast.

Everybody is passionate about something. Share that passion with the community.  Send a pitch, either a paragraph telling the idea of the story, or a snippet that story.

Email Forktale at forktalemaine@gmail.com. Follow them on Twitter @forktale for more updates. They are also on Pinterest Instagram, Facebook and on the web at www.forktale.com.