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Vicki Forman, LM’s Special Needs Mama columnist has won the 2008 Bakeless Prize in Creative Nonfiction for her memoir, “This Lovely Life.” The book will be published in the summer of 2009 by Houghton Mifflin and she will be a fellow at Bread Loaf that summer as well.

MotherVerse is also launching an exciting new addition, mother writer workshops. These virtual workshops are designed to help facilitate mother writing by encouraging mother writers to come together to learn and guide one another. We will be offering two workshops “Writing Motherhood” and “Publishing a Blog” with will begin at the end of April and […]

Switchback, a publication of the MFA of the University of San Francisco is looking for submissions. Eighth Issue: “Stillness vs. Frenzy” The editors of Switchback are now accepting submissions for our eighth issue. The theme is Stillness vs. Frenzy. Poetry and prose submissions are not required to address the theme. We continue to seek work […]

Are you a mom, who would love to take the Writing and Publishing the Short Stuff Class that starts April 16th with author Christina Katz, but you would not otherwise be able to afford it? Then you qualify for The Writer Mama Scholarship! The deadline for your short application is one week only: Saturday, March […]

“Every woman is a mother, a daughter, or both,” says Tzivia Gover, workshop leader and author of Mindful Moments for Stressful Days. “Whether or not we have children of our own, we each play the role of nurturer, teacher, and protector in some way. Likewise, whether our mothers are in our lives today or not, […]

Call for submissions – help create the first anthology about life, love and change in our 40s • Are you a 40-something woman? • Do you have something to say about life in your 40s? • Do you want to be part of a talented, interesting group of women across the country who are making […]

Bay Area folks! Come on out for a reading from the Seal Press anthology “For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth about Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance” edited by Victoria Zackheim. Saturday, March 8th, 7:00pm A Great Good Place For Books 6120 La Salle Avenue, Oakland (in Montclair Village) (510) 339-8210 One of the anthology […]

LM Fiction Co-editor Suzanne Kamata was a featured speaker at the Being An Author Broad career seminar in Tokyo. During the event, which was sponsored by the Tokyo-based magazine Being A Broad, Kamata, author of Losing Kei and editor of Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs. Author, columnist […]

C. Delia Scarpitti, Columns Co-Editor has a new poem, “The Lament of the Bearded Lady” that just went live at the flash-literature pioneer magazine, Flashquake. She was also recently awarded a grant from her home state as an Emerging Artist in Fiction for 2008 based on her novel manuscript, Migration Summer. More info about that […]

Here’s your chance. Seal Press is launching a new series and we’re looking for writers who are experts on the following topics: Car repair Camping Home repair BBQing We’re looking for women writers who are passionate about these topics. Whether it be your passion, your hobby, or your profession, the main qualifier is that you […]

StoryQuarterly Contest is open to all writers. We’re looking for the heart of the story presented in fiction or nonfiction in the following categories: short stories, short short stories, novel excerpts, essays, memoirs, and excerpts from book-length nonfiction. Entries must be previously unpublished, no longer than 8,000 words, and must not have previously been chosen […]