Calls for Submissions

We’ve compiled another great list of opportunities to help you become a published mama-writer. Check it out!

If your grade, middle, or high school children are artists and writers, check out these two contests run by the Center for the Book. Let literature appreciation start early!

On the first Wednesday of each month, Literary Mama shares a complete list of all current calls for submissions, sorted by deadline.  Throughout the month we share new calls for submissions via Facebook and Twitter, so if you want to be kept in the loop, make sure to find us one place and/or the other! And now, this […]

Celebrate the Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant winners!

Money for Women is the oldest ongoing feminist granting agency. After Barbara’s Deming’s death in 1984, it became a memorial fund.

Looking for places to submit your writing? Plenty of opportunities here!

A complete list of all Calls for Submissions and details about our new format.

Pregnancy & Newborn magazine is accepting submissions of essays on motherhood.

Last week Literary Mama Poetry Editor Sharon Kraus and Assistant Poetry Editor Ginny Kaczmarek took us behind the scenes of the submissions process (click here for that post).  This week they offer some invaluable advice for mom-poets and ideas for what to do with those “stuck” poems. What tips can you offer to poets writing […]

This week and next, we are featuring a conversation with Poetry Editor Sharon Kraus and Assistant Poetry Editor Ginny Kaczmarek.  This week we find out what they look for in submissions and how the submissions process works. What does Literary Mama look for in submissions? Sharon: My standard answer is to paraphrase Emily Dickinson: I […]

Literary Mama’s fiction editors are looking for stories by and about fathers for their June Father’s Day issue.