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Craft Talk With Kristen Mulrooney, Creative Nonfiction and Fiction Editorial Assistant

Welcome to Craft Talks. In this bi-monthly post, we’ll have a mini-interview with our own editors about craft, what they look for in submissions, and all things writing. Today, I talked with Kristen Mulrooney, Creative Nonfiction and Fiction Editorial Assistant. She told me about Mary Oliver and the delight of reading unexpected submissions. ~ 1. […]

Bridget Lillethorup |  December 21, 2020 | Blog |  One Comments

Altenderfer, M. N.

M.N. Altenderfer’s work has appeared in Ms., YAWP, The Taproot Literary Review, The Carlow Journal, Pittsburgh City Paper, Water-Stone Review, The New Yinzer, Gastronomica, and in the anthologies September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond and Dirt. She was the Reading Series Coordinator for the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh for seven years before receiving her […]

A Review of The Four Ugliest Children in Christendom

Open the pages of The Four Ugliest Children in Christendom and enter another world. In this intriguing, provocative poetry collection, Welsch confronts societal expectations, the ethics of research, the pressures and complications of parenting and adoption, and shifting definitions of truth and beauty.

The Single Sentence

That sentence I wrote, to announce the end, said it all. Yes, it was surrounded by other words–accomplishments, family lineage, hobbies–but that one sentence was truest. I’d never written anything better, never will.

Tender this Ache

Silence sanctioned with bird’s song. / Sandalwood smoke oscillates snake-like / from altar into air. // Gong resounds, a break! A break! / Stealthily, I check my phone, the screen / displays: Car totalled.
I am ok.

New Colors for an Extended Family

This is the first family reunion since one of my daughters changed genders. How will the relatives react to him?

After Page One: Persistence

A guest post to motivate, encourage, and inspire ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After Chapter Twenty   Twenty years ago I was home with two young sons. I ran a small organic farm, taught prepared childbirth classes, worked as a doula, read cozy murder mysteries, and did freelance writing and editing. It was a good life, except for my […]

Edith Maxwell |  August 18, 2014 | Blog |  2 Comments

Demeter Press: Publishing Groundbreaking Motherhood Studies for Eight Years—and Counting

In 2006, Andrea O’Reilly founded Demeter Press, the first press devoted to scholarly and literary works on mothering and motherhood. Since that time, Demeter has published an extraordinary diversity of titles: fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, essays, and academic studies on topics that include incarcerated mothers, feminist economics, gender fluid parenting practices, indigenous motherhood and many, many more.

After Page One: Intention

A guest post from Shannon Lell.

Shannon Lell |  April 15, 2013 | Blog |  No comments

Reader Response to A Dozen Years

Last month’s “Birthing the Mother Writer” column asked readers to submit essays about mothering during a child’s adolescence. In this essay, Sarah Marxer writes about how, since she adopted a daughter who was five years old, this is the first such transformation she has witnessed.

A Dozen Years

My daughter is twelve. Sometimes I wake at dawn, from a dream that she is gone, and my heart pounds for her.

I remember being twelve. Getting so warm, chasing each other at recess, that we took off our coats. The girls took them off, hot from running. The boys took them off, I see now, so we couldn’t touch their coat tails and make them it.

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