Writing

Book Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc. Contributors needed for articles about: websites for women poets, using life experience, magazine markets, networking, managing family, blogs, unique issues women must overcome, lesbian and bisexual poetry, continuing education, queries and proposals, anthologies, conference participation, contests, promotion, self-publishing, teaching tips, and other areas women poets are interested. Practical, concise, […]

Reading Period: August 1 – October 31, 2010 It’s a special kind of contest aimed at helping you develop your work. Everyone’s a winner because when you send in a draft, a free-write, or a piece you think may be done but you wonder about; within two weeks you’ll receive detailed response to your work […]

Every letter on Dead Advice begins with the same first sentence: “Now that I’m dead, I want to tell you a few things.” Imagine, for a moment, that you have just died. If you had to look back over the arc of your life as it stands today, what stories would you tell? What lessons […]

damselfly press, an online literary journal for women is pleased to announce the publication of our twelfth issue and call for submissions for the thirteenth issue. We are seeking electronic submissions of original fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by female writers only slated for online publication in October 2010. As always, we welcome a myriad of […]

Check out LM’s Literary Reflections Editor Kate Hopper’s interview with Debra Gwartney, author of Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love, one of 30 finalists for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Juggling career, motherhood and family life is clearly a hot button topic for many women today. This anthology is different from other “motherhood” books out there today in a number of ways: 1) As an anthology of personal essays, this book features the voices of real women, not just snippets from interviews or summaries of […]

June 29, 2010. New York. Today, on the one-year anniversary of She Writes founders Kamy Wicoff and Deborah Siegel will announce The Passion Project, a contest open to an emerging author and member of She Writes with a nonfiction book project in the works. The Passion Project enables a hand-picked A-team of writing and publishing […]

In May, we asked, “If you could profile your mother, what salient features would you include — her smell; her habits; her laugh? What did you love about her? What did you hate? What part of her is within you and obvious when you parent your own children?” Margaret Hundley Parker wrote: When I was […]

Read Founding Editor Amy Hudock’s interview with The Post and Courier’s Charleston Scene: Writing is all about play and experiments, and is a bit wild and untamed. Editing is all about shaping and organizing the play, making the “child” fit for polite society. Writing is the child in me, and editing is the mother. Read […]

undefined magazine wants to publish you in our summer reader Deadline for submissions June 7 Would you like to see your words on the pages of South Carolina’s premiere arts magazine? Of course you would. That’s why undefined magazine is holding its first creative writing competition with awards for poetry, short stories, and flash fiction. […]

In April, we asked the question: “Before children, what fantasies did you construct about childbirth and parenting? How did you come to terms with the disparity between your dreams and reality?” This month, we had two exquisite submissions. The following is the second submission we selected. Alyssa Westring wrote: In theory, I’m an expert at […]