Calls for Submissions

Found this on Erika Dreifus’ The 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 […]

A Works-In-Progress Play Reading Series Deadline: January 5, 2009 To be produced by RCA Theatre, She Said Yes!, and White Rooster Productions in celebration of International Women’s Week, March 6 – 8, 2009 Theatre companies RCA Theatre, She Said Yes!, and White Rooster Productions are joining forces to present the third annual series of play […]

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 […]

Dear Reader, Four weeks left to enter! The Crazyhorse Fiction Prize The Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize $2000 each and publication in Crazyhorse. Postmark Deadline to Enter: December 15, 2008 Upload your entry online or mail. Each year Crazyhorse offers the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize for a single short story and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry […]

Part of the problem is that I treat writing like a privilege not an obligation. It comes after everything, after all my other responsibilities. Maegan “la Mala” Ortiz My Writing Life Woman’s Work: The Short Stories is a celebration of what happens when women finally get to the page. About the extraordinary stories that spill […]

The Mama Mary Show is seeking submissions about stories of loss, grief, redemption and joy from Daughters who have lost their Dads: I am looking for submissions from any and all women who have lost their dads, any age and any circumstance. The pain is universal but each individual story is unique. I loved my […]

An Edited Collection by Demeter Press The Palin Factor: Political Mothers and Public Motherhood in the 21st Century Editors: Andrea O’Reilly and Deirdre M. Condit The nomination of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as the Republican party Vice Presidential nominee in the 2008 U.S. president election has initiated a public conversation about the meaning and depiction […]

This anthology, to be published in 2009, will explore, through personal essays and first-person accounts, the phenomenon of lesbian moms (single and coupled) who choose male friends or acquaintances, rather than an anonymous sperm donor, to father their children. With no clear models to follow, this new version of the queer family is creating its […]

MOTHERHOOD & PHILOSOPHY: WHAT PHILOSOPHY HAS TO SAY ABOUT MOTHERS AND WHAT MOTHERS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT PHILOSOPHY Sheila Lintott (ed.) Department of Philosophy Bucknell University Abstracts with titles are solicited for a new volume in the Wiley-Blackwell series Philosophy for Everyone, under the general series editorship of Fritz Allhoff. As with previous titles now […]

damselfly press seeks to promote exceptional writing by women whose voices have not yet been heard. We welcome work from female writers of all backgrounds and experiences. We accept fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that is honest and daring, and explores the relationship between dualities. Joy, pain. Boldness, vulnerability. Sacred, profane. Be passionate about your writing, […]

Call for Papers Submit abstracts for papers or panels Approximately 750 words Due January 31, 2009, at 5:00 p.m. E-mail submissions or questions to PCM_Conference@yahoo.com Include a cover sheet with name, institution, department,and contact information. Document should be submitted in MS Word (.doc file). For further details and registration information, please link to: (www.uoregon.edu/~uophil/events.html) Hosted […]