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Former LM columnists and editors Andrea Buchanan and Heidi Raykeil have contributed chapters to the new Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth (March, 2008). Andi, author of Mothershock and coauthor of The Daring Book for Girls, wrote the chapter on adjusting to new motherhood; Heidi, aka The Naughty Mommy, wrote a chapter on getting your […]

Guidelines for the FAMILY MATTERS category: We are interested in reading your original, unpublished short stories about family! We don’t publish stories for children, I’m sorry. It’s fine to submit more than one story or to submit the same story to different categories. When we accept a story for publication, we are purchasing first-publication rights. […]

Though Waiting to Surface is a novel, it is based very closely on a my real event in my life – my husband’s disappearance. Though writing it was cathartic for me, as a mother, I was concerned the entire time I was working, about what the effect on my daughter would be. Writers are often […]

Seeking submissions for a book about women writing about family…. Foreword: Robbi Hess, Journalist, co-author, Complete Idiot’s Guide to 30,000 Baby Names (Penguin Books); Editor, Byline Magazine Afterword: Suzanne Bunkers, Professor of English, Minnesota State University, editor of Diaries of Girls and Women: a Midwestern American Sampler (University of Wisconsin Press). This is a book […]

Christina Katz is pleased to announce that she is giving one full scholarship for each of her four scheduled Writing and Publishing the Short Stuff classes this year. Information about the scholarship for the first class of 2008 is now posted. For complete guidelines, please visit: The Writer Mama scholarship. The application deadline is one […]

Jenny Hobson is Literary Mama’s new Profiles Copyeditor. Jenny lives, blogs, knits, and does GIS in an Ohio River town in West Virginia. She lives with her husband and preschooler daughter. Her blog can be found at Hobson’s Choice.

Taken from Yahoo Groups CRWROPPS 2008 Selected Shorts Writing Contest http://www.symphonyspace.org/shorts/writing_contest The 2008 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize with guest judge Amy Hempel The winning submission, selected by Amy Hempel, will be read as part of the Selected Shorts performance at Symphony Space on May 21, 2008. The story will be recorded for possible […]

Dear MomsRising Member, NEW YEAR’S POP QUIZ: What’s Maternal Profiling? a. The practice of selling stiff undergarments that promise a return to one’s pre-pregnancy profile. b. How the Oprah Show executives determine their prime demographic. c. Employment discrimination against a woman who has, or will have, children. d. Routine stop and searches of swerving minivans […]

Always wanted to write a novel? Does your parenting schedule keep you from attending a local class? The answer is here: Masha Hamilton’s online novel writing workshops. You can take the class in your pajamas, while breastfeeding, even in bed. There is still room in the Level I ten-week online classes which will open January […]

Skirt!® Magazine is looking for essay submissions: Contributor Guidelines for Writers/Authors Skirt!® Magazine 7 Radcliffe Street, Suite 302 Charleston, SC 29403 Phone: (843) 958-0027 Fax: (843) 958-0029 Email: editor@skirt.com We want every issue of Skirt!® to reflect the variety and diversity of women’s lives and interests. Surprise, entertain and charm us! Essay Submissions Skirt!® publishes […]

Jessica Berger Gross writes about infertility, adoption and making difficult choices in, The Baby I Turned Away. Read her essay in the Life section of Salon.com