Calls for Submissions

Six Great Publishing Opportunities for Personal Stories in the following categories: Loved Ones of People with Alzheimers (last call) Divorced Women (deadline extended) Breast Cancer Survivors (with Redbook Magazine, deadline extended) Military Families (new) New Mothers (new) Adoptive Families (new) The bestselling A Cup of Comfort book series is now seeking submissions for these six […]

Thanks to Erika Dreifus of The Practicing Writer for the latest tip: WAHM, the new, interactive, content-driven, virtual on-line magazine for work-at-home parents is coming in January 2008! We’re getting ready to launch this innovative approach to providing work-at-home parents with the information they need and want. The WAHMmagazine is a forum and resource for […]

Dreaming About Water. Amy Mercer (LM blog editor) and Violeta Garcia-Mendoza (Lm Literary Reflections co-editor) are seeking personal essay submissions from women writers for their upcoming collection. Essays should fall between 1,500 and 3,000 words and explore an aspect of living with diabetes. The collection will cover any and all aspects of living with diabetes: […]

Adams Media is publishing a new anthology (book) series featuring uplifting true stories about the experiences and relationships that inspire and enrich our lives—namely those with our mothers, our fathers, and our teachers (also mother-figures, father-figures, and mentors). These slice-of-life stories will be written by people from all walks of life and provide unique personal […]

The Home Forum section of the Christian Science Monitor is looking for, “upbeat, personal essays” from 300-900 words on parenting, travel, home, family and food. Payment ranges from $75-160, paid upon publication. All submissions should be sent via email in a microsoft attachment. See writing guidelines.

“Photographer Elisha Rain & poet/writer Kelli Russell Agodon are joining together to create an anthology that speaks to being a mother in this current world. We are looking for poems exploring all areas of pregnancy, birth, and any aspects of being a mother. We are very open to all motherhood content and themes, but want […]

Mama Specific Productions is seeking submissions of speculative fiction stories about the future of motherhood, including science fiction, fantasy, mystery and any sub-genres. The theme is motherhood in the future. Some things to prompt or give you ideas to start with: What do you imagine the function of motherhood to be? How do you think […]

Adams Media is seeking submissions for an upcoming Cup of Comfort anthology called “A Cup of Comfort for Divorced Women.” From their web site: Divorce in the twenty-first century should come with an instruction manual, a release valve, and a support system. This anthology will serve essentially those three purposes, in the form of comforting, […]

Funny-but-True Anthology Submission Guidelines Meadowbrook Press is working on a series of hilarious anthologies featuring funnier-than-fiction tales about the “misadventures” of life. The first anthology in the series, The Breastfeeding Diaries, will be available in November 2007. In the meantime, we’re planning many more titles in this funny series, and we want to hear your […]

POETRY needed for PARENT BLESSINGS (previously titled PARENT PRAYERS) is geared specifically for parents and will have the same spiritual tone as BABY BLESSINGS. The intention of the book is to provide insight, joy, and support for parents throughout their parenting journey. Parents will read PARENT BLESSINGS when they feel like celebrating the simple joys […]

Motherwords is a new regional magazine for mothers and families North of Boston. We are currently accepting stories written by moms for moms. We are open to all stories related to motherhood including but not limited to: birth stories, how children have changed your marriage, adoption, good places to take your kids,etc. You do not […]