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Celebrating Motherhood as Muse: A Mother’s Day Reading with the Motherlode Writers Sunday May 10th 2 – 3 p.m. Book Passage 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. Corte Madera, CA 94925 (415) 927-0960 http://www.bookpassage.com/content.php?id=16 The Motherlode Writers is a Berkeley-based community of mother-writers. We work in a wide variety of genres, including essay, memoir, poetry, and fiction. […]

Feminist Review is giving FIVE people a chance to win a set of FIVE books by entering our Asian Heritage Month giveaway contest. The books are: 1. Free Food for Millionaires By Min Jin Lee 2. Trail of Crumbs By Kim Sunée 3. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles By Jennifer Lee 4. Transparency By Frances Hwang […]

Read LM Me and My House columnist Elrena Evans’ interview with arist Anna Kocher about her thoughts on faith, art and motherhood at

Scholars in the fields of Anthropology, Biology, Cultural Studies, Economics, English, Gender Studies, History, Medicine, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Women’s Studies, and others are engaged in attempting to understand the construction and consequences of motherhood. A woman’s physiological ability to conceive, carry, and birth children, the assumption that the ability to raise children is […]

MEMOIR (AND) Call for Submissions The reading period for Spring+Summer 2010 (Issue 6) is upon us! Accepting traditional and experimental prose, poetry, graphic memoir, narrative photography, lies, and more from 5/1/09 through 8/15/09. Four prizes up to $500 available for prose, poetry and graphic memoirs. All submissions eligible for contest entry. For guidelines, contest info […]

Exhale: As Mother’s Day Approaches, Fresh Literary Magazine Brings Creative Voice to a Different Kind of Motherhood April 26th, 2009: Mother’s Day, a festive and celebratory time for some, is a perplexing and sometimes emotional day for the hundreds of thousands of American women who have experienced miscarriage and stillbirth. Many grapple with the lingering […]

In this workshop, we’ll explore using mindfulness—full attention to the present moment—to discover our deep stories. We’ll write from personal experience, using exercises to generate and hone topics, address “writing blocks,” respond to others’ work, and craft finished products. We’ll talk about essential elements of essays and memoir: structure, scene-making, narrative arc, setting, and dialogue. […]

Literary Reflections is pleased to present our featured writing prompt response from April. We asked, “What favorite activity has motherhood pushed far into the reaches of your existence? How do you compensate for that absence and longing? If you still make time for hidden pleasures, how do you incorporate them into this reality? Beth Meleski […]

Join Catherine Orenstein and The Op-Ed Project for an upcoming CHANGE THE WORLD seminar on May 2 in San Francisco. The OpEd Project—featured by The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Katie Couric on CBS News—is an initiative to expand public debate, with an immediate emphasis on enlarging the pool of women who […]

SUBMIT YOUR BIRTH STORY FOR AN UPCOMING ANTHOLOGY! Looking for any and all stories; home births, hospital births, c-section, vaginal deliveries, miscarriages. The aim of this project is to create a dialogue for women and their partners surrounding birth. Please submit a photo along with your story (optional). Include the approximate word count, along with […]

Call for Submissions – East Bay Monthly, July 2009 Dear Writers, We’re planning another fabulous summer essay issue of The East Bay Monthly—and we’d love to consider publishing your work. We’re looking for original, vivid, carefully crafted personal essays using “31 Flavors” as a theme or jumping off point. Please give it a whirl, and […]