Calls for Submissions

Are you a published author with kids? Pen Parentis seeks short (up to 250 words) essays about writing while parenting for possible publication on their new website (Pen Parentis). Submit an email mss (no attachments please) to submitpenparentis@gmail.com Please include your name, a very short bio (list most important 3 credits only) and number of […]

Due September 15, 2009 Main Street Rag We will begin accepting stories for consideration on three new themes again starting in January 2009. We will be reading on these themes until we fill the pages or until September 15, 2009 (postmark date). Themes for 2009: The Commute (stories regarding travel including everything from bicycling to […]

The Ultimate Christian Living A book of personal, true stories by and about Christians whose lives have been impacted by their faith. If you have a passion for God, His word, and His people, we invite you to share your stories of faith, including those of service to others, challenges you’ve faced, and spiritual leaders […]

We want your true stories of dating and mating in the 21st century. Have you had a funny, strange or horrifying experience with online matchmaking services? Had a cybersex encounter of the weirdest kind? Conducted your relationship mostly online? Been victim of a text-message break-up? Whether you’re living happily ever after or continue to be […]

Dear ARM Members and Friends, As you are no doubt aware I am editing an encyclopedia on motherhood for Sage Press (3 volumes, 700 entries), scheduled for publication April 2010. As a result of last minute changes several entries are in need of contributors. PLEASE SEE LIST BELOW. If you are interested please contact sue@golsonmedia.com […]

How it works: Enter at goodhousekeeping.com/shortstory by submitting a short story no longer than 3,500 words, on a theme that focuses on the lives of women today. Submission must be original, not previously published or a finalist for any other prize or award. Please include your full name, address, daytime phone number, and e-mail address. […]

vox poetica, an online poetry salon, is seeking poems on all elements of motherhood: birth, baby care, sleepless nights, sending kids to kindergarten or college, the ups, the downs, the highs, the lows, the unexpected joys and sorrows, the whole collective of the thing. Poetry is the lifeblood of creative expression, the perfect union of […]

2,000-4,000 words Payment: upon publication Editors: Candace Walsh and Laura André Contact: candace.walshATgmail.com As Dr. Lisa Diamond’s recent ground-breaking book Sexual Fluidity makes clear, women’s sexual desire and identity are capable of shifting. Cynthia Nixon, Carol Leifer, Wanda Sykes, Portia de Rossi, and countless others have left the fold of heterosexual identity to enter into […]

The Mom Egg is an annual journal of poetry, fiction, creative prose and art; we publish sharp, insightful, lyrical, inventive, disruptive, cynical, hilarious, and resonant work by mothers about everything, and by everyone on the subject matter of mothers or motherhood. Submissions for our Fall 09 special online issue accepted through July 31st. Guidelines and […]

From Erika Dreifus’ Practicing Writer: Catalyst Book Press seeks literary essays telling personal stories for two anthologies, one focusing on birth parents, and the other on the subject of miscarriage. The submission deadline for both books is August 15, 2009, and payment in each case will be $50 plus one copy of the book. For […]

Submission Deadline: July 13, 2009 PERINATAL A Symposium on Birth Practices and Reproductive Rights Wednesday 7th October 2009 (tentative) at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia Forty years ago, the feminist movement advocated for reproductive rights. Over the years, childbirth was dropped from the agenda. Why? What has this meant for women? How are women organizing […]