Personal Narratives

The East Bay Monthly is now accepting first-person essays (900 words maximum) from San Francisco Bay Area writers for possible publication this summer. The theme: A hard choice To submit, paste the essay into your email to editorial@themonthly.com and attach as a Word document (“.doc,” not “.docx” file). Please include your name, email address, and […]

From Colleen Sell’s blog: The Wordsinger The Cup of Comfort book series and REDBOOK Magazine have teamed up to sponsor the Your Love Story Contest. And since I’m the Cup of Comfort series editor, I’m one of the judges. Here’s how it will work: From a pool of 60-70 finalists selected by yours truly, REDBOOK’s […]

Calling all nursing mother-writers: Have you ever sprayed milk across the room at a particularly inopportune moment? Wrangled a nursing toddler in a sticky situation? Traveled across the globe, or even across town, with a nursing babe and surprising results? Do you fancy yourself somewhat of a comedienne and have you lost all modesty through […]

Subject: Call for Submissions: Anthology of Women’s Stories of Becoming The University of Nebraska Women’s Center is publishing the anthology Becoming, edited by Jill McCabe Johnson. The editors seek personal narratives and a small number of poems relaying the story of a formative experience that helped shape the woman you’ve become. Please send one personal […]

Parting From LM Columns Editor, Alissa McElreath’s blog, World Of One Thousand Different Things There’s a beautiful, old cemetery I pass every day on my way in and out of work. It’s sprawling, and green, and dotted with the mottled gray and, now and again, sharp white, of the tombstones and graveside monuments. It has […]

Nicole O’Donnell blogs about driving with her family and a pony…and being tailgated by a “hog” at Subartic Mama.

I’m not going to the writing conference I was thinking about in the spring. I’m not sure about this. It’s expensive but I was hoping the investment would be worth it to get me all inspired and stuff. But then I was thinking that what with buying a new house and all the homeschooling activities […]

I promised Andi I would be very helpful with this blog and then suddenly my work blew up and I am actually having to do something to earn my living. So I am waiting for my childcare situation to go from theoretical to practical (my little sister will be coming over and helping out) and […]