September/October 2026

Creative Nonfiction

• Sleep

  By Alice Froemling

• When A Mother Needs Mothering

  By Abiola Oyeniran

• My Mother’s Voice Lost and Found 

  By Audrey Markowitz

Fiction

• Pony Ride

  By Kristina Jipson

Poetry

• The Anchovies

  By Rebecca Clarren

• Rabbit Test

  By Julia Smuts Louw

• No Word for a Mother Who’s Lost an Unborn Child

  By Angela Sucich

• In the bird sanctuary

  By Jamie Wendt

• Witness, a Lullaby for the Mother

  By Celisa Steele

• Bundle of Joy

  By Tiffany Baker

• The Cradle

  By Jane Blanchard

• 23 Months

  By Ellen Rawley

• baby blues

  By Danielle McMahon

Profiles

• Moms Can Have Gap Years Too: A Conversation with Lindsey Goldstein 

  By Alison Damast Dolinger

• Being a Stay-At-Home Mom Isn’t for Everyone: Profile of Julie Swendsen Young

  By Olivia Brochu

Reviews

• “Motherhood is Its Own Kind of Curation”: A Review of Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear

  By Katherine Murray

• Fostering, Mothering, Caring: A Review of Stranger Care

  By Shellie Kalinsky

• “Sometimes We Love by Closing a Door”: Grief, Mothering, and the Body in Preeti Vangani’s Fifty Mothers

  By Emma Bolden