Jessica DeVoe Riley

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Caregivers 101 Stories of Love, Sacrifice, and Bonding We are excited to announce that we are working with Joan Lunden on this book, which will be published in March 2012. Joan is very passionate about this topic as she is the family member in charge of her mother’s care. […]

The Tenth Glass Woman Prize will be awarded for a work of short fiction or creative non-fiction (prose) written by a woman. Length: between 50 and 5,000 words. The top prize for the tenth Glass Woman Prize award is US $500 and possible (but not obligatory) online publication; there will also be one runner up […]

A Room of Her Own’s To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize will be awarded for the best, unpublished poetry collection by a woman. Submit 48 to 96 pages of poetry postmarked by August 31, 2011. The $20 reading/entry fee is payable by check or money order to A Room of Her Own – please indicate […]

The Whistling Fire is proud to announce our September Guest Editor is Stacy Furrer. Submission deadline is August 21st. Dear Writers, I am fascinated by family dynamics, particularly those that operate between mother and child. My relationships with both my mother and mystepmother were complicated and inexplicable, but if you were to witness a few […]

Seeking poems and short pieces inspired by breastfeeding for World Breastfeeding Week 2011 event! We want to see the Los Angeles breastfeeding landscape represented. We encourage diverse participation from all across the spectrum – nursing mothers, partners and families of nursing mothers, health professionals, lactivists, anyone who can remember and verbalize their experience being breastfed! […]

Here’s a last minute call for you — ***The deadline is JULY 15*** Room Magazine’s 2011 Annual Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-Fiction Contest First prize in each category is $500, 2nd prize $250, plus publication in the summer 2012 issue of Room. Judges: Amber Dawn (fiction), Elizabeth Bachinsky (poetry), and Susan Juby (creative non-fiction). Entries […]

Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection on Mother of Invention: How Our Mothers Influenced us as Feminist Academics and Activists. Co-editors: Vanessa Reimer and Sarah Sahagian Publication Date: 2014 DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: SEPTEMBER 15, 2011! This anthology will bring together essays from feminist activists and academics alike. The goal of this anthology […]

In what ways does being female affect one’s sense of place, placement, and/or (dis)location? We are seeking submissions of prose writing by women, and strongly encourage you to submit your work for consideration. We are looking for fiction and nonfiction stories that wrestle explicitly or implicitly with the question posed above. A selection of submitted […]

Death is an obvious answer to the question of what it is about medicine and pediatrics in particular that can make its practice difficult, but death itself is simple. It is a single moment, and a moment, no matter how painful the flash of grief that accompanies it, is easy enough to endure. Death is […]