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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! […]

Do you keep a journal – or wish you could get one started? Literary Mama wants to help. This week’s writing prompt asks how you feel about giving awards for completing projects.

As a mother watching her eight year old daughter hurtle headlong into tweendom, with its requisite obsessions with Katy Perry and jeggings, I read Cinderella Ate My Daughter eagerly, my enthusiasm tinged with a faint but beseeching desire to be told what to do. Peggy Orenstein’s compelling (and alarming) book addresses the culture in which […]

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 […]

Do you keep a journal – or wish you could get one started? Literary Mama wants to help. This weeks’ writing prompt is about marriage.

Former LM columnist Jennifer Eyre White has developed quite a following for her hilarious columns about having three kids. As the mother of three, Jennifer knows all about sleep deprivation; in fact she’s made it her muse.

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 […]

Matthew Amster-Burton’s, Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father’s Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater (Mariner Books, 2010), derives from a singular situation: What happens when a food writer becomes the primary caregiver for his infant daughter? More to the point, what does this parent — who has wide-ranging expertise in culinary traditions and sourcing ingredients, has […]

Other Mothers/Other Mothering Demeter Press seeks abstracts by October 12. Other mothers and other mothering roles may be found throughout history and across diverse cultures. Other mothers may be the paradigmatic first responders, the first-teachers of informal and formal learnings, or first care-givers for the formative triage years of children and youth. Other mothering denotes […]

The Literary Reflections Department seeks first-person essays with an intellectual as well as personal focus. Where is the intersection of reading and motherhood? How does the creative process impact your motherhood? What imprint does living and working as a mother-writer leave on you and your family? Add your story to the Literary Mama collection. Please […]