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Book Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc. Contributors needed for articles about: websites for women poets, using life experience, magazine markets, networking, managing family, blogs, unique issues women must overcome, lesbian and bisexual poetry, continuing education, queries and proposals, anthologies, conference participation, contests, promotion, self-publishing, teaching tips, and other areas women poets are interested. Practical, concise, […]

Book Publisher: The Key Publishing House Inc., publisher of academic and non-academic books, Toronto, Ontario Submissions are being sought for an anthology about writing and publishing by women with experience in writing and publishing about family. Possible subjects: using life experience; networking; unique issues women must overcome; formal education; queries and proposals; conference participation; self-publishing; […]

Congrats to these LM Staffers! Suzanne Kamata, Fiction Co-Editor: “My story “X-patriate,” which was written awhile ago, but never published in the United States, now appears in Monkeybicycle, which I have to say is one of the coolest literary journals online or off. And: Wyatt-Mackenzie will publish my short story collection, The Beautiful One Has […]

Mothering Adult Children Editor: Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard Publication Date: 2013 Deadline for abstracts: December 1, 2011 This anthology will explore the changing experiences and the challenges of relationships between mothers and their adult children. I invite submissions that address a range of factors that may impact these relations, health, generational differences in values, conflicts with […]

Do you keep a journal – or wish you could get one started? Literary Mama wants to help. Three times a month, I’ll post a writing prompt. Open a notebook and write for 10 minutes. Don’t worry about grammar or punctuation – just write. Then let the writing simmer and your mind wander for awhile. […]

My eight-year-old son Sam has hair down to his waist; he is generally mistaken for a girl. Though recently he’s most passionate about Star Wars, for years he played princess dress-up games and wore a fairy costume on Halloween. I have no idea what his gender identity and sexuality will be once he reaches high school. But I want to do everything I can so that he won’t be attacked for his differences when he gets there.

Remember the angst and drama of your teenage years? For many, books–especially those labeled Young Adult–offer refuge and escape. Jessica Stites, associate editor of Ms. magazine, has this to say in the magazine’s Fall issue: “What most of these books have in common is a certain kind of hero(ine): young, brave, rebellious and independent … […]

Do you keep a journal – or wish you could get one started? Literary Mama wants to help. Three times a month, I’ll post a writing prompt. Open a notebook and write for 10 minutes. Don’t worry about grammar or punctuation – just write. Then let the writing simmer and your mind wander for awhile. […]

Book Publisher: The Key Publishing House Inc., publisher of academic and non-academic books, Toronto, Ontario. Submissions are being sought for an anthology about writing and publishing by women with experience in writing and publishing about family. Possible subjects: using life experience; networking; unique issues women must overcome; formal education; queries and proposals; conference participation; self-publishing; […]

Do you keep a journal – or wish you could get one started? Literary Mama wants to help. Three times a month, I’ll post a writing prompt. Open a notebook and write for 10 minutes. Don’t worry about grammar or punctuation – just write. Then let the writing simmer and your mind wander for awhile. […]

San Francisco, CA, October 20, 2010 — SOMArts Cultural Center presents Feast of Words: A Storytelling Potluck, a monthly event that is part social, part reading series, and part inspiration for writers and foodies alike. Co-hosted by Irina Zadov and Lex Leifheit, Feast of Words takes place on the first Tuesday of each month. Guests […]