Calls for Submissions

Subject: Call for Submissions: Anthology of Women’s Stories of Becoming The University of Nebraska Women’s Center is publishing the anthology Becoming, edited by Jill McCabe Johnson. The editors seek personal narratives and a small number of poems relaying the story of a formative experience that helped shape the woman you’ve become. Please send one personal […]

101 Inspirational Stories of Energy, Endurance, and Endorphins Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark Many of you know that we originally planned this book to cover all three triathlon sports – running, swimming, and cycling – and we had titled it Endurance Sports. Our distributor Simon & Schuster advised us that there is […]

The Kitchen Sisters are looking for stories and images and videos and writings. We’re launching a new multimedia series on NPR this January, a listener collaboration in the tradition of Hidden Kitchens, Lost & Found Sound, and The Sonic Memorial Project. This one’s about girls. Girls and the women they become. Stories of coming of […]

The Mom Egg, an annual journal, seeks flash fiction, prose, poetry and art for its Spring 2010 issue, which will be a print issue on the theme of “Lessons”. The Mom Egg publishes work by mothers about everything, and by everyone about mothers and motherhood. Details on the site (“Submit”); you can also download a […]

END OF LIFE Creative Nonfiction is again working with the good folks at SMU Press, this time on a collection tentatively titled “End of Life Stories.” For this collection, we are seeking essays that explore death, dying, and end of life care. We’re looking for stories from physicians, nurses, hospice workers, counselors, clergy, family members, […]

Being and Thinking as an Academic Mother: Theory and Narrative CALL FOR PAPERS FOR ONE-DAY SYMPOSIUM The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) and the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University will co-host a one-day symposium at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute on Thursday, April 08, 2010 on “Being and Thinking as an Academic […]

Enter your non-fictional narrative for the opportunity to be included in an anthology, sharing real life accounts of how fathers have shaped daughters lives, to be published in June 2010. It is my mission to gather authentic experiences to create an inspirational anthology of collective wisdom, an offering of guidance for the dads of tomorrow […]

Dear Writers, We’re now accepting short first-person essays (900 words maximum) for possible publication in our January 2010 issue. The theme: “A moment (big or small) after which nothing was the same.” Please note that although we have nothing against poems, short stories, or epic novels, we can only consider bona fide essays for the […]

We’re now accepting short first-person essays (900 words maximum) for possible publication in our January 2010 issue. The theme: “A moment (big or small) after which nothing was the same.” Please note that although we have nothing against poems, short stories, or epic novels, we can only consider bona fide essays for the purpose of this […]

Working Title: And Then It Shifted: Women Open Up About Leaving Men for Women (Seal Press, 2010) 2,000-4,000 words Payment: Upon publication. Amount will vary, depending on experience and other variables ($50 and up). Please include a list of any previous publication credits with your query or submission. Contributors will also receive two copies of […]

To celebrate the publication of her new book, 31 Hours, LM friend Masha Hamilton is hosting a contest: Email a paragraph or story (500 words max) about when your intuition has been right about your child. The top five stories—selected by Masha and guest judges—will get a free hardcover book and have their stories featured […]