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The Home Forum section of the Christian Science Monitor is looking for, “upbeat, personal essays” from 300-900 words on parenting, travel, home, family and food. Payment ranges from $75-160, paid upon publication. All submissions should be sent via email in a microsoft attachment. See writing guidelines.

Weaning the Babies, a new collection of poetry by Literary Mama contributor Ann Neuser Lederer, has just come out from Pudding House. Related metaphorically to weaning, the book also integrates snippets of emails from Lederer’s now 26-year-old son as codas, creating a shadow narrative. Lederer’s poem “Seeing Babies” can also be found in her Pudding […]

“Photographer Elisha Rain & poet/writer Kelli Russell Agodon are joining together to create an anthology that speaks to being a mother in this current world. We are looking for poems exploring all areas of pregnancy, birth, and any aspects of being a mother. We are very open to all motherhood content and themes, but want […]

Literary Mama contributor Julia Lisella has published a new poetry collection, Terrain, a book “suffused with quiet rhythms: of birth and death, of pain and healing, of turbulence and calm. She maps a wide terrain indeed, and her haunting music touches both the ear and the heart.” Lisella teaches at Regis College, and is also […]

MotherTalk is looking for mama bloggers who would like to review books that appeal to women and mothers who love to read. They’re currently looking for people to review James Patterson’s latest YA novel, Maximum Ride 3, as well as Susan O’Doherty’s Getting Unstuck Without Coming Unglued: A Woman’s Guide to Unblocking Creativity … with […]

Mama Specific Productions is seeking submissions of speculative fiction stories about the future of motherhood, including science fiction, fantasy, mystery and any sub-genres. The theme is motherhood in the future. Some things to prompt or give you ideas to start with: What do you imagine the function of motherhood to be? How do you think […]

Adams Media is seeking submissions for an upcoming Cup of Comfort anthology called “A Cup of Comfort for Divorced Women.” From their web site: Divorce in the twenty-first century should come with an instruction manual, a release valve, and a support system. This anthology will serve essentially those three purposes, in the form of comforting, […]

Funny-but-True Anthology Submission Guidelines Meadowbrook Press is working on a series of hilarious anthologies featuring funnier-than-fiction tales about the “misadventures” of life. The first anthology in the series, The Breastfeeding Diaries, will be available in November 2007. In the meantime, we’re planning many more titles in this funny series, and we want to hear your […]

Hi all– I wanted to announce the (second) launch of Open Adoption Support, a social networking site and resource site for families and individuals interested in or living open adoptions. The site is for all triad members including those who are in closed adoptions but support openess, those who are in reunion, and those whose […]

We are proud to announce the publication of 3 LM writers in A Cup of Comfort for Single Mothers (Adams Media, April 2008). The Grand-Prize Winner is LM’s Editor-in-chief Amy Hudock with her essay, “Altars of Sacrifice.” Columnists Rachel Sarah Single Mom Seeking and Ona Gritz Doing it Different will also have essays about single […]

Literary Mama Co-founder Andi Buchanan has spent the last several months building a new venture called MotherTalk, which connects publishers with bloggers who are willing to review books that appeal to women and mothers who love to read. Past blog tours have included books like Writing Motherhood, The Other Mother, and The Kids Book Club […]