Reading

I’m looking for sharp women-authored nonfiction essay submissions for Her Madgesty, a new anthology (forthcoming from Soft Skull Press) about our favorite freaky feminist singer/artist/’Sex’-er/mother/material girl: Madonna. She’s been such a powerful, iconic cultural figure for the past 27 years (!). For women and girls in America, it’s almost impossible not have been influenced, in […]

DATE: Tuesday, December 14 TIME: Party starts at 6:30-8:30 LOCATION: The Libertine Library at Gild Hall,15 Gold Street, NYC With Special Guests, John Reed Writer, editor, father of two and critically acclaimed novelist of, A STILL SMALL VOICE SNOWBALL’S CHANCE, and the forthcoming TALES OF WOE. Liz Rosenberg Is a mother a fiction writer and […]

Tupelo Press Welcomes Your Submissions for the 2010 Dorset Prize The annual Dorset Prize is an open competition for a poetry manuscript, with a $3,000 prize. Prior winners include Ilya Kaminsky, G.C. Waldrep, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Davis McCombs, Sandra Meek, Rachel Contreni Flynn, Joshua Corey, and most recently Rusty Morrison. Submissions are accepted from anyone […]

Her artistry – and economy – with words to this point allowed me to become intimate with her delicate feelings about the act of creating life, and then delivering it to the world. Alive.

Remember the angst and drama of your teenage years? For many, books–especially those labeled Young Adult–offer refuge and escape. Jessica Stites, associate editor of Ms. magazine, has this to say in the magazine’s Fall issue: “What most of these books have in common is a certain kind of hero(ine): young, brave, rebellious and independent … […]

San Francisco, CA, October 20, 2010 — SOMArts Cultural Center presents Feast of Words: A Storytelling Potluck, a monthly event that is part social, part reading series, and part inspiration for writers and foodies alike. Co-hosted by Irina Zadov and Lex Leifheit, Feast of Words takes place on the first Tuesday of each month. Guests […]

International Conference on Motherhood Activism, Advocacy, Agency May 13-15, 2011, Toronto, ON, Canada EXTENDED DEADLINE: OCTOBER 15, 2010! Grounded in a long history, in which women activists, writers, and feminists focused much effort on strengthening the social, personal, and political power of mothers, current motherhood research and activism makes maternal empowerment one of the major […]

Imagine your most frustrating, most irritating day at home with the kids. The girls joust with cuttings from your favorite fern, the boys paint Spiderman with mascara, the casserole smoulders in the oven, the baby wails in the rocker. You want to sleep, or scream, or run. It’s hard. But now imagine how much harder […]

Thursday, October 7 * 7 pm * The Loft Literary Center Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue S Minneapolis, MN Free and open to the public Each year, Kate Hopper coordinates a Mother Words Reading to showcase excellent literary nonfiction by women writing about motherhood. This year she will be joined by Bonnie J. Rough, author […]

Led by Local Author Elizabeth Fishel Welcome New Members This Fall The Wednesday and Friday morning women’s writers’ workshops I’ve led in my Rockridge living room for many years are testimony to the power of writers’ groups as catalysts, support, sources of ideas, and inspiration for the literary life. Part writing class, part support group, […]

Ann Hood writes about motherhood like nobody else, from the troubled, pregnant teenager of her novel Ruby, to her bestselling memoir of loss and grief, Comfort. In between Hood has written ten other books as well as popular essays for the New York Times’ Modern Love column, Tin House and O: The Oprah Magazine. In […]