Calls for Submissions

I’m looking to put together an anthology of strong, woman writers who envision the future of motherhood as something all together different from what we see today. So what’s the future to you? Universal healthcare? Free childcare for all mothers, regardless of race, income, or age? Mother compounds where woman live and raise kids together? […]

Publishing the raw materials of fiction, poetry and other creative work: index cards; napkin notes; notebook entries; etc. See the right-side panel of hit and run magazine.

Literary Mama is seeking poems about fatherhood, and we welcome male voices for our June Father’s Day issue. We seek writing that is about fathers from the child’s perspectives; about the relationships between fathers and mothers and husbands and wives; about husbands as fathers; and by self-defined fathers about fathering and mothering (including lesbian or […]

The editors of Dads in Academia: Male Voices In and Out of the Ivory Tower invite contributions for an interdisciplinary collection of creative nonfiction essays on the rewards and challenges of being both a father and an academic. Much recent discussion about the juxtaposition of parenthood and the academy has focused on the difficulties that […]

Stories that celebrate the women who gave us everything While it’s true that each of us has “only one mother the wide world over,” there are many different ways to be a mother and many different forms and flavors of mother-child relationships. And in this Cup of Comfort anthology we want to capture it all—with […]

Kathi Kamen Goldmark is looking for stories from authors of all genres for a book she and her husband Sam Barry are finishing. It’s a non-fiction book based on their monthly column on writing (found at bookpage.com) and Kathi’s looking for two things from her fellow writers: 1) A personal story about having your manuscript […]

UPDATE: EXTENDED DEADLINE APRIL 15, 2009 As memoir continues to expand in popularity, motherhood memoir has become an increasingly prominent and lucrative subgenre for contemporary authors. As Michelle Herman points out in The Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood, if forced to choose between her daughter and her writing, she would choose her daughter, but […]

GO TO INTHEMOTHERHOOD.COM & SHARE New Network Comedy Series Will Feature Stories Inspired By Viewers’ Life Experiences From play dates and daycare to stretch marks and potty training, ABC wants to hear about your poignant, hilarious, emotional and even your most banal mommy moments for its new comedy series, “In the Motherhood,” premiering this spring. […]

Our upcoming anthology, Motherhood and Domestic Violence (working title), will explore the complexities of mothering in a violent home through stories, essays, and poems written by survivors. Women with children experience domestic violence on two levels ~ Besides the cruelties inflicted upon themselves, mothers suffer the violence again as they witness the effects on their […]

Poetry,Prose, and Visual Art Contest for new Mamapalooza Magazine Call for submissions, on the topic “Moms Gone Mad,” of poetry, prose (creative nonfiction or fiction) and visual art (photographs, drawings, paintings). Winners will receive publication in the premiere issue of Mamapalooza Magazine, official arts publication of the Mamapalooza Festival, to be published May 2009. Additionally, […]

MISCARRIAGE ANTHOLOGY Catalyst Book Press is seeking literary essays telling personal stories of miscarriage, in particular emotional and spiritual ramifications of miscarriage or the transformations that occurred in people’s lives as a result of undergoing or observing a miscarriage. We are looking for essays that reflect a diversity of experiences and outcomes. Authors of accepted […]