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Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection on Mothering and Literacies Editor: Amanda Richey Publication Date: 2012/2013 Deadline for abstracts: April 15, 2011 This collection will explore the connections between mothering/motherhood and literacy as it is broadly defined. Literacy, in this case, encompasses reading/writing literacy as well as multimodal, “new”/digital, and contested multiliteracies […]

In her debut novel Chosen, Chandra Hoffman reveals the inner workings of domestic open adoptions. The Chosen Child adoption agency is located in Portland, Oregon. Adoptive parents fill out forms stating what kind of baby they are willing to adopt. Will they take a mixed race baby? Will they take a baby exposed to drugs […]

Congrats to these LM Staffers! Cassie Premo Steele, Columnist: “My poem, “Writing is like this,” was nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize–my second nomination! The poem comes from my new poetry book, This is how honey runs, which was published by Unbound Content and contains poems written during my Co-Creating work with clients using creative […]

I’m looking for sharp women-authored nonfiction essay submissions for Her Madgesty, a new anthology (forthcoming from Soft Skull Press) about our favorite freaky feminist singer/artist/’Sex’-er/mother/material girl: Madonna. She’s been such a powerful, iconic cultural figure for the past 27 years (!). For women and girls in America, it’s almost impossible not have been influenced, in […]

In our own lives as writers and educators, we have felt buoyed by, and thirsty for, dialogue about the creative process. We think it is particularly essential to gather a collection of process/craft-based essays by women who span several different generations. We hope that an anthology such as this will serve as both a historical […]

“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” was one of our family’s TV-time rituals when my children were young. For years, they giggled at Rudolph’s red nose, hid their faces at the Abominable Snowman’s first appearance, and cheered when Rudolph led Santa’s sleigh through the fog. But the viewing I treasure most is the one when our oldest […]

is seeking submissions for an edited collection on Queering Maternity and Motherhood: Narrative and Theoretical Perspectives on Queer Conception, Birth and Parenting Editor: Joani Mortenson Publication Date: 2012 Deadline for abstracts: March 31, 2011 This anthology will explore the continuum of queer mothering, through conception to birth to parenting. Understanding the process and material effects […]

We’re pleased to feature this reader’s response to one of our For Your Journal writing prompts. Cecilia Wu shares these thoughts about her neighborhood: Journal Entry: Compare your childhood neighborhood with that of your child’s. Do you live in the same community in which you were raised? The same area of the country? How are […]

Demeter Press plans to publish titles on the following themes in 2012-14 (an edited collection of approximately 15 chapters): Othermothering/Othermothers Incarcerated Mothers Mothering and Sex Work Mothering and Islam/Muslim Mothering Asian Mothering Mothering and Disability Refugee/Immigrant Mothers Patricia Hill Collins Marilyn Waring Single/Lone Mothers Mothers and Music *Also seeking: Canadian Co-editor (ideally in social sciences), […]

DATE: Tuesday, December 14 TIME: Party starts at 6:30-8:30 LOCATION: The Libertine Library at Gild Hall,15 Gold Street, NYC With Special Guests, John Reed Writer, editor, father of two and critically acclaimed novelist of, A STILL SMALL VOICE SNOWBALL’S CHANCE, and the forthcoming TALES OF WOE. Liz Rosenberg Is a mother a fiction writer and […]

Tupelo Press Welcomes Your Submissions for the 2010 Dorset Prize The annual Dorset Prize is an open competition for a poetry manuscript, with a $3,000 prize. Prior winners include Ilya Kaminsky, G.C. Waldrep, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Davis McCombs, Sandra Meek, Rachel Contreni Flynn, Joshua Corey, and most recently Rusty Morrison. Submissions are accepted from anyone […]