Calls for Submissions

We are currently seeking submissions for a special online issue of The Mom Egg, a literary journal, to be released in Fall 2009. Deadline for poetry, fiction, creative prose and art for this issue is July 31, 2009. We are also accepting submissions of other material, such as reviews and interviews. Submission guidelines may be […]

August 1, 2009 – September 12, 2009 Write your truth. Tell your stories. Make a commitment to yourself. Wherever you’ve roamed, whatever you’ve survived, however you live—it’s all fodder for your work. Your unique experiences are vital to creating and critiquing. This multi-genre workshop will serve as a tool for self-discovery and story excavation under […]

August 1, 2009 – September 12, 2009 Write your truth. Tell your stories. Make a commitment to yourself. Wherever you’ve roamed, whatever you’ve survived, however you live—it’s all fodder for your work. Your unique experiences are vital to creating and critiquing. This multi-genre workshop will serve as a tool for self-discovery and story excavation under […]

August 1, 2009 – September 12, 2009 Write your truth. Tell your stories. Make a commitment to yourself. Wherever you’ve roamed, whatever you’ve survived, however you live—it’s all fodder for your work. Your unique experiences are vital to creating and critiquing. This multi-genre workshop will serve as a tool for self-discovery and story excavation under […]

We are looking for personal stories 1500 to 3000 words in length (approximately 6-12 pages, double spaced, 1 inch margins) that explore the challenges women face while raising kids and working a job, or raising kids and staying at home. We also encourage career women who have made the decision not to have children, or […]

Here is a way to do something FREE, WONDERFUL and LASTING for MOTHERS DAY. Be part of the founding initiative for the Museum Of Motherhood. Please take a moment to reflect on a mother you’ve known, your own mother or your experiences as a mother and share them with us at Museum Of Motherhood. Write […]

Scholars in the fields of Anthropology, Biology, Cultural Studies, Economics, English, Gender Studies, History, Medicine, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Women’s Studies, and others are engaged in attempting to understand the construction and consequences of motherhood. A woman’s physiological ability to conceive, carry, and birth children, the assumption that the ability to raise children is […]

MEMOIR (AND) Call for Submissions The reading period for Spring+Summer 2010 (Issue 6) is upon us! Accepting traditional and experimental prose, poetry, graphic memoir, narrative photography, lies, and more from 5/1/09 through 8/15/09. Four prizes up to $500 available for prose, poetry and graphic memoirs. All submissions eligible for contest entry. For guidelines, contest info […]

SUBMIT YOUR BIRTH STORY FOR AN UPCOMING ANTHOLOGY! Looking for any and all stories; home births, hospital births, c-section, vaginal deliveries, miscarriages. The aim of this project is to create a dialogue for women and their partners surrounding birth. Please submit a photo along with your story (optional). Include the approximate word count, along with […]

Call for Submissions – East Bay Monthly, July 2009 Dear Writers, We’re planning another fabulous summer essay issue of The East Bay Monthly—and we’d love to consider publishing your work. We’re looking for original, vivid, carefully crafted personal essays using “31 Flavors” as a theme or jumping off point. Please give it a whirl, and […]

The Choosing America Project is looking for true short stories that express the very essence of being an immigrant in America; dramatic accounts that transform the word “immigrant” to something moving and personal. For more details please go to Choosing America. Our concept is to disseminate this information to as many immigrants as possible in […]