Birthing the Mother Writer

This month readers are invited to use their own experiences and/or the experiences of other mothers to write a short story that reveals one of the unspoken struggles of motherhood.

Last month’s prompt invited readers to write an essay that reflects upon how an activity such as a hobby or sport holds lessons for mothering. In this essay, Cecilia Wu…

This month readers are invited to use their own experience with an activity — an art or sport, hobby or routine — to write an essay that reflects upon the…

Last month’s prompt invited readers to write an essay that reflects upon the relationship between mothers and schools.

This month readers are invited to write an essay that reflects upon the relationship between mothers and schools.

Last month’s prompt invited readers to write a poem on the theme “Mother to Father.”

This month Cassie Premo Steele invites you to write your own poem on the theme “Mother to Father.”

Last month’s prompt invited readers to write an essay that reflects upon and gives advice about publicly declaring one’s identity as a writer.

We’ve all been there — the moment between telling and not telling something about ourselves that could change the way others see us and the way we see ourselves. “I’m…

Last month’s prompt invited readers to explore the psychological depth that fairy tales can reveal by writing a personal essay that retells a fairy tale in contemporary terms and reveals…

When my daughter Lily was a baby, my stepfather gave me an elaborately illustrated, pop-up version of Sleeping Beauty “I know it’s not exactly feminist,” he said to me. He…