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Amy Mercer

Amy Stockwell Mercer is a freelance writer living in Charleston, SC with her husband and three sons. An MFA graduate in Creative Writing from Queens University, she writes about art and artist profiles for Charleston Magazine, The City Paper, Charleston Art Mag, and Art Papers. Amy also writes about living with chronic illness, and is finishing a book about women with diabetes for Demos Health. When she needs to get out of her own head, she teaches college students how to write the 5 paragraph essay. You can read more of her writing at her website.

Contributions:

On Mothers and Grief

call for submissions

2011 Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents

Mom’s Night Out!

Queering Maternity and Motherhood:

International Conference on Mothering, Motherhood and Education

Breadwinning Broads

CALL FOR STORIES, Muslim Women

Postcard from Japan: Disability and Disaster

MENNONITE MOTHERING

CASTING: LOOKING FOR DEDICATED & ACTIVE PARENTS

Birth Story Project

The Fine Line Short Story Collection.

Stories Between Bites

Incarcerated Mothers: Oppression and Resistance

Call for Submissions: stories about career change

Writing and Selling Your Personal Essays

Pluff Mud Mag

Women Writing Naturally Workshop

More from Demeter Press

Demeter Press

Pen Parentis Literary Salon

MUSLIM MOTHERING: Call for papers

CALL FOR PAPERS: Mothering and Literacies

Desperately Seeking Madonna Submissions

ANTHOLOGY CALL: SEEKING ESSAYS BY WOMEN WRITERS ABOUT CRAFT AND THE WRITING PROCESS

CALL FOR PAPERS: Demeter Press

Demeter Press

A Literary Holiday Party to benefit Pen Parentis!

Tupelo Press the Dorset Prize

Writing It Real Winter 2010-11 Poetry & Essay Contest

Today, December 6th, is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada.

The Moment book

Dream of Things

The Afghan Women’s Writing Project

Mother Words Retreat

Women and Poetry: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing by Successful Women Poets

Women Writing on Family: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing

CALL FOR PAPERS: Demeter Press

Women Writing on Family: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing

Feast of Words: A Storytelling Potluck,

Call for Submissions: Here Come the Brides! The Brave New World of Lesbian Marriage (Seal Press, 2012)

Laboring On: Testimony, Theory & Transgressions of Black Mothering in Academia

Pen Parentis Literary Salon

CALL FOR PAPERS: Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI)

Chronic Mama, Columns

Happy Endings

Kate Hopper’s 4th Annual Mother Words Reading with Hope Edelman and Bonnie J. Rough

Afghan Women’s Writing Project, seeking editor

Creative, Supportive Women’s Writers’ Groups in Oakland

Call For Submissions: Pentimento Magazine

Pen Parentis Literary Salon

Writing Raw: What revealing has to do with revelation, and how to write about family without being disowned

Women and Poetry: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing by Successful Women Poets

Devotional Stories for Times of Trouble

The Momoir Project Scholarship Offers Chance to Win an Online Writing Course

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – Occupied Bodies: Women of Color Speak on Self-Image – Deadline October 15, 2010

University of Memphis Survey on Advertising (in children)

Writing It Real Summer/Fall 2010 Poetry & Essay Contest

Dead Advice…

Bay Area Readings for a new book, The Doctor and the Diva

Damselfly Press

I’m No Superwoman: True Stories of Kids, Career and the Chaos of Modern Motherhood”

She Writes announces contest to catapult undiscovered women writer to success

NYWIFT and Women Make Movies present An Evening with Mothers In Film, June 30 at Tribeca Film Center – FREE!

Books Inc.: What I Would Tell Her

Love in Condition Yellow

Amy Hudock to beginning writers: ‘Don’t wait to be discovered’

Undefined Magazine

Chronic Mama

Team Mercer

The Life Poetic

Poetry Podcast

Pen Parentis

Women and Poetry: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing by Successful Women Poets

The Motherhood Muse WRITING CONTEST

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

Fatherhood Submissions

Mother writers – call for submissions

Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms

Pen Parentis

Who Does She Think She Is?

If You Love Me So Much Make Breakfast In Bed For Me Next Week

Wild Writing Workshops

The East Bay Monthly

Win $1,000 for Your True Story of Love Story!

Have Milk, Will Travel: Comic Adventures in Breastfeeding

Writing It Real “Mothers and Fathers, Mothering and Fathering” Poetry & Essay Contest

Celebrate World Read Aloud Day with More Read Aloud Choices

Celebrate World Read Aloud Day at Books, Inc!

Share what it’s like to be a public school teacher

Artists’ Retreat

Chronic Mama

Legacy

Literal Latte Reading

Stories of Becoming

Pen Parentis

Women Writing Naturally: Winter Retreat

ALS-a life still

Pen Parentis

She Writes Webinar

The Faster Times

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners

Improve Your Memoir and Life Story Writing

Chronic Mama

Asking for Help

Mothering Outside the Lines

The Kitchen Sisters

The Mom Egg

Pen Parentis

End of Life Stories

Being and Thinking as an Academic Mother

Fathers and Daughters

The East Bay Monthly

Chronic Mama

Birth Story

Robot Hearts: Twisted and True Tales of Seeking Love in the Digital Age

This Lovely Life

Chronic Mama

Hurricanes

Encyclopedia on Motherhood

SHE WRITES

Good Housekeeping’s Short Story Contest

Motherhood Poems

Sexual Identity Anthology

The Mom Egg

Motherhood: A Formal Constraint

The Family Bed: Is There Sex After Kids?

Catalyst Book Press

CALL FOR PAPERS

“DadsDudesDoingIt”

Support the Afgan Women’s Writing Project! Buy a raffle ticket! Win a prize!

Chronic Mama

Bitter Heart

Who Does She Think She is?

The Mom Egg

6-Week Writing Intensive & Publication in Anthology

6-Week Writing Intensive & Publication in Anthology

6-Week Writing Intensive & Publication in Anthology

The Monthly

Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering

Mother Words Online Summer Session – 8 weeks

Children’s book reading…

Indie Excellence Award

Writing Memoir Class

Pen Parentis

Moms in the Fast Lane

Museum Of Motherhood

The Motherlode Writers

Chronic Mama

Lucky

Win 5 Books: May is Asian Heritage Month!

art, faith and motherhood….

Cultural Consequences of Unmotherhood

Memoir Journal

Exhale

THE MINDFUL WRITER: A workshop in cultivating your fearless voice

The OpEd Project

Birth Story

East Bay Monthly

Poetry Talk with Ginny Kaczmarek

Literary Mama Best Website

motherhood anthology

Pen Parentis Presents

Pen Parentis Presents

Mama, PhD readings in Virginia and North Carolina

“enLIGHTened: How I Lost 40 Pounds with a Yoga Mat, Fresh Pineapples, and a Beagle Pointer.”

Cup of Comfort

Hit and Run Magazine

Chronic Mama

Double High Risk?

Poems About Fatherhood

Literary Reflections Reading Period

Barnes and Noble Favorite

Pen Parentis

A Cup of Comfort for New Mothers

The Mindful Writer:

International Mothers Network

Parenting as Soul Work

Dads in Academia

A Cup of Comfort® for Mothers:

“The Politics of Reproduction: New Technologies of Life,”

Poetry for the People

Love in the Time of Colic: The New Parents’ Guide to Getting it on Again

Seeking writing stories

Mothers Creating/Writing Lives: Motherhood Memoirs

ABC WANTS YOUR MOMMY STORIES —

Call for submission of personal accounts from mothers who have survived domestic violence.

Write Your Story

Writing Class for Moms

“Moms Gone Mad”

The Mindful Writer

Mama, Ph.D: Women Write About Motherhood and the Academy

“DIFFICULT DIALOGUES

Hopes for the Holidays

Chronic Mama

(No Longer) an Invisible Illness

Anthologies

Progressive Women’s Voices

Mothers Linked World Wide

The Middle Place

Network of Mothers

B-Word/B*tch job opening

Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism: A Gathering

INTERNATIONAL MOTHERS NETWORK

Catalyst Book Press

Memoir Writing

Mama at the Movies

Miranda

Dads in Academia

The Crazyhorse Fiction Prize

Woman’s Work: The Short Stories

Literary Mama is turning 5

The Mama Mary Show

Creative Nonfiction Special Topics Class

Creative Nonfiction 1 Writing Class

An Interview with Shari MacDonald Strong

Playing for Papa

Call for Papers

Dyke Moms, Donor Dads, and Reconceiving the Queer Family:

Words Without Borders

skirt! Magazine

a mother in academe…

MOTHERHOOD & PHILOSOPHY:

ARM conference

Chronic Mama

Cravings

damselfly press

Philosophical Inquiry into Pregnancy

“Freeing Your Child From Negative Thinking”

COMPOSER SEEKING POET

Girl Talk: 25 Open Letters to Our Female Friends

A Cancer Survivor’s Memoir Leads to a Fashion Statement

A River & Sound Review

Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages

Women Writing on Today’s American Family

“EDUCATED IN FREEDOM”

Calling all Stay-At-Home Doctorates!

Writers On The Rise

Cancer Is A Bitch

APRONSTRINGS

The Maternal Wall in Academe

Mama, PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life

Poetry reading

Lit Crawl

Wisdom of Our Mothers

Knowing Pains

Seeking children’s drawings…

Cancer Is a Bitch

‘Baby-shaped Hole’

Bay Area Reading

Emprise Review

Spots still available!

LM Reading at Blue Bicycle Books!

How to Fit a Car Seat on a Camel: And Other Misadventures Traveling with Kids

Mothers Creating/Writing Lives: Motherhood Memoirs

Chronic Mama

Inheritance

The American Satellite

MotherVerse Online workshops

Momma writers and bloggers for anthology!

M/othering and a Bodied Curriculum

Demeter Press

Call for Papers

Bliss Notes

Traveling Mamas Anthology

Multilingual Living Magazine

The Maternal is Political

Yoga Philosophy and Weight loss….

A Special Issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly

Chicken Soup seeking submissions

A Nursing Triad

Ain’t I a Mommy?

Share Some Comfort

Chronic Mama

Swimming With My Clothes On

Mothering Out Loud: Moms Tell the Truth About Blogging it All

Tokyo Families Magazine

Going Under

“Best Of”……editor’s blogging

Inside Higher Ed

WRITING MOTHERHOOD PAPERBACK TOUR MAY 2008

The Traveling Mamas

“Best of” Editor’s blogs

Spend Mother’s Day Month with Literary Mama!

Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years

Best Of……editor’s blogging

Love You To Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs

Spoonfuls of Stories®

Seeking Submissions

Out and About with Kids: From Getting Across Town to Traveling Around

Newark Arts Alliance

PMS literary Journal

“Brewing up more Cup of Comforts”

Who We Are

Teaching and Tae Kwon Do

Special Needs Mama

Mother Writer Workshops

Switchback

Have you heard about The Writer Mama Scholarship?

MINDFUL MOMENTS FOR MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS

life, love and change in our 40s

Being An Author Broad

Who We Are

Want to be a Seal author?

The StoryQuarterly Love Story Contest

Divorce is Rad!

Feminist Parenting

Motherhood and Writing, by Kathryn Trueblood

ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH ON MOTHERING AND DEMETER PRESS

Real Life and Liars

Who We Are

The new Our Bodies, Ourselves

Glimmer Train Family Matters

“Backstory: Emily Listfield on her novel, Waiting to Surface.”

Women Writing on Family: Writing, Publishing, and Teaching Tips by U.S. Women Writers

The Writer Mama scholarship

Who We Are

Selected Shorts Writing Contest

MomsRising

skirt! Magazine

The Baby I Turned Away

Who We Are

Conte: A Journal of Narrative Writing.

Mamaphonic

Who We Are

Literary Mama Authors!

Lovely Lady Lumps

Mamazine

A Wild Ride

WOW! Women on Writing

Call For Papers

Mama Focus Photo Contest!

Center For Women Book Signing

Local Author Book Fair

Women’s Worlds 2008 Conference

White Ink

White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood

The Daring Book For Girls

Love You To Pieces, Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs

More from Moms Rising…

“On Being a Mother in the Academe”

My Mom Is My Hero

Church Moms

Reproductive Rights

ARM conference

New webzine seeking submissions

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

Summer Reading

Wondertime Magazine

Thereby Hangs a Tale

MotherVerse

A Cup of Comfort

The WAHM Magazine

Parenting 101

The Secrets behind Writing and Selling Your First Book

Only As Good As Your Word

Who We Are

Who We Are

Making it Pop

Brain, Child

WHY (Work, Home, You)

Two Angry Moms

blogs about mothers

toyless play enhances child’s imagination

“Who We Are”

Cup of Comfort

Cimarron Review

Dreaming About Water, a collection of personal essays and practical advice by and for women living with diabetes

“Who We Are”

Grace Paley, writer and activist dies

“Who We Are”

Writing and Publishing The Short Stuff, Especially For Moms!

“Who We Are”

Hero Series call for true stories

Creative Non-Fiction, writing memoir

First Book

Moms Rising/afterschool programs

Christian Science Monitor

Call for Submissions: Meadowbrook Press

A Cup of Comfort for Single Mothers

Poetry Wanted for Parent Blessings book

Mama, Ph.D: Women Write About Motherhood and the Academy

The Writing Mamas Salon in San Francisco

W. Kamau Bell’s Solo Performance Workshop.

Motherwords, a new magazine for mothers.

“The Daring Book For Girls” by LM’s Andi Buchanan

Two Lines: World Writing in Translation reading

Caught in the Creative Act: Writers Talk about their Writing

Calling All Mama-Poets!

Suzanne Kamata’s “Losing Kei” Now Available

Author Terry Ryan passes away.

In The Motherhood Scriptwriting Contest

“Mother’s Day” Monday Night Blues, May 14th

The Mommy War Machine

Berkeley, CA Mother’s Day Reading

Seeking Personal Stories about Mothers and Motherhood

Ericka Lutz on American Public Media Show “The Story”

Call for Submissions: Glimmer Train

A crusading publisher pushes Niger’s limits

Choice Mom Expo

Crazyhorse/Tupelo Press Publishing Institute

Essays, Literary Reflections

Solitaire

Creative Nonfiction

Not Alone

Essays, Literary Reflections

The Birth of Readers

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