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…is a new literary journal. We accept e-mailed submissions of poetry (please visit the samples on our site for an idea of where our interests lie), fiction, photography, and nonfiction. Nonfiction can include memoir, essays, articles, extended reporting, critical pieces, book reviews and more. Guidelines: http://www.muttsbane.com

The MotherVerse Online workshops (Writing Motherhood & Publishing A Blog) have been moved back to September 15 and will be running until October 20th. There are plenty of spots still available! This is such a fabulous resource and way to connect with writing peers and mothers! Workshop descriptions below: Writing Motherhood Workshop –workshop focused on […]

Yesterday afternoon was our LM reading at Blue Bicycle Books in downtown Charleston, SC and it was great! Thanks to Suzanne Kamata for organizing the afternoon and the gathering of smart, wonderful women. It was a true Literary Mama event as various children ate cookies, drank lemonade and ran back and forth in front of […]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580052428/literarymama-20Elrena Evans, LM’s Me and My House columnist, will be reading my piece from the anthology How to Fit a Car Seat on a Camel: And Other Misadventures Traveling with Kids (Sarah Franklin, Seal Press) along with contributor Leesa Gehman, tomorrow in Bethlehem PA at the Moravian Book Shop at 11:00. The reading will be […]

As memoir continues to expand in popularity, motherhood memoir has become an increasingly prominent and lucrative subgenre for contemporary authors. As Michelle Herman points out in The Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood, if forced to choose between her daughter and her writing, she would choose her daughter, but this would be an impossible and […]

…is seeking submissions. The Satellite is a magazine of opinion, essay, & Satire. We accept submissions on a rolling basis. We do not accept fiction, poetry, etc… Please note: articles should be timely (i.e. relevant). The American Satellite rarely publishes anything over 1500 words. All possible contributors should include their name, phone number, a biography […]

The next session of “The Mindful Writer: Cultivating Your Fearless Writing Voice,” begins Thursday, September 18th. Classes meet in North Berkeley from 7:00 — 9:30 p.m. and run for nine weeks; the cost is $250 for the entire session. Below is a description of the class as well as comments from former students. If you […]

The MotherVerse Online workshops (Writing Motherhood & Publishing A Blog) have been moved back to September 15 and will be running until October 20th. There are plenty of spots still available! This is such a fabulous resource and way to connect with writing peers and mothers! Workshop descriptions below: Writing Motherhood Workshop–workshop focused on developing […]

(Posted by, “Mommy Weirdest” on craigslist) I’m working on putting together an anthology of essays entitled “The Girl Least Likely…” These will all center around a general theme of woman who have stumbled into motherhood after working in academia, as artists or writers, or in the corporate world. We look for writers that aren’t ashamed […]

Call for submissions: M/othering and a Bodied Curriculum Co-edited by Stephanie Springgay and Debra Freedman A bodied curriculum attends to the relational, social, and ethical implications of “being-with” other bodies differently and to the different knowledges such bodily encounters produce. It is a practice of being oriented to others, to touch, to reflect, and to […]

is seeking submissions for an edited collection on Latina/Chicana Mothering. Publication Date: Spring 2011 Editors: Dorsía Smith Silva and Janine Santiago We are very excited to edit an interdisciplinary book on mothering in the Latina and Chicana communities. We seek papers that examine the narratives, histories, practices, and theories of Latina and Chicana mothering as […]