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MISCARRIAGE ANTHOLOGY Catalyst Book Press is seeking literary essays telling personal stories of miscarriage, in particular emotional and spiritual ramifications of miscarriage or the transformations that occurred in people’s lives as a result of undergoing or observing a miscarriage. We are looking for essays that reflect a diversity of experiences and outcomes. Authors of accepted […]

The Progressive Women’s Voices program has become a cornerstone of The Women’s Media Center. In our first year of the program, we intensively media trained 33 women who have gone on to earn over 1000 media hits year to date. We are “changing the conversation” by making sure that there are plenty of qualified, authoritative, […]

by Rebekah Spicuglia Beginning December 1, 2008, mothers around the world have had access to the first global consortium of motherhood organizations. Marking ten years after the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) was founded, mothers’ organizations in North America and around the world came together in October for the ARM annual Toronto conference on […]

Fellow author Kelly Corrigan just released this very moving essay about women, friendship and loss on YouTube to celebrate the paperback version of her book The Middle Place. Read, A Conversation with Kelly Corrigan in the Literary Mama Profiles.

Literary Reflections is pleased to present our featured writing prompt response from November. We asked, “Have you ever had an incident where your writing made you feel like a “bad” parent or person? Did you resolve the conflict? If so, how?” Carol Ungar wrote: Last week I was trying to rev up my career, pretending […]

LM’s Founding Co-Editor, Amy Hudock says, I spoke at the Association for Research on Mothering Conference in October, and I met with other mother organizations to talk about creating a network. We thought, “If we join all of our readers, participants, and activists together, what a huge network of mothers this will be!” Thus, Literary […]

B-Word/B*tch is a 12-year-old feminist nonprofit media organization that interrogates commercial culture via a magazine, a website, and assorted other media and outreach vehicles. Our founding editorial and creative director is transitioning to a broader organizational role, and so B-Word/B*tch is looking to hire a highly skilled full-time editor to join our tiny but hardworking […]

Belladonna* Announces: Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism: A Gathering CUNY Graduate Center, September 24-25, 2009 In celebration of its tenth year, Belladonna* will join with The CUNY Graduate Center’s Women’s Studies Certificate Program, Center for Research on Women and Society, Center for Humanities, English Department, and Poetics Group to present a conference aimed at advancing […]

Dear ARM Members and Friends, We are delighted to report that the INTERNATIONAL MOTHERS NETWORK website will be launched this week. We are inviting all mother organizations to join this first ever international motherhood consortium of motherhood organizations. We would like to have your organization on the website when it is launched. To that end […]

Found this on Erika Dreifus’ The Practicing Writer: Catalyst Book Press seeks literary essays telling personal stories for two anthologies, one focusing on birth parents, and the other on the subject of miscarriage. The submission deadline for both books is August 15, 2009, and payment in each case will be $50 plus one copy of […]

Inspiring Mother* Voices featuring Shari MacDonald Strong editor of The Maternal is Political: Women Writers at the intersection of Motherhood and Social Change; Jen Parsons, Mothers Acting Up and Run for Congo organizer; and Amie Nelson, currently writing Inspiring Mothers. Everywhere we turn the word “crisis” is in the air — the financial crisis, the […]