Whether you’re living happily ever after or continue to be digitally dumped, you’ve got a story we may want to publish!
We are looking for thoughtful-yet-humorous nonfiction pieces that focus on the uniqueness of trying to make a human connection in this digital age.
We are interested in the ideas of love and technology intertwined, for better or for worse.
Is dating now so very different from the days of our ancestors?
Does courtship still exist in the world of instant-everything?
Have ideas of romance changed even within your lifetime?
Has technology enhanced or intercepted your chances at a love connection?
Has progress gotten in the way of your more primal instincts? The world wants to know!
Guidelines:
All essays should be of the true and personal nature, written in the first-person. Focus on one or a few selected events in your life; do not send rants or political speeches. Stories should be titled. Essays should be between 1000 – 5000 words, double spaced, paginated and word-processed.
No funky fonts, please.
Please include a brief bio (1-3 sentences) at the end of your submission.
Deadline: Dec 31st, 2009
Please send your submissions to: red@lifesabitchbooks.com
Writers chosen for the book will be contacted early in 2010. Their selected stories will be published in an anthology shortly thereafter.
Each contributor receives two free copies of the finished book, will be included in publicity promoting the book and will be invited to read at literary events associated with the release of the book. Books will be available on amazon.com, bookstores and our company website.
Visit www.lifesabitchbooks.com
Literary Mama editor and former Special Needs Mama columnist will be reading from her new memoir,
Book Passage
Thursday, August 06, 7:00 PM
51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA, 94925
for more information, visit http://www.bookpassage.com/content.php?id=16
Dear ARM Members and Friends,
As you are no doubt aware I am editing an encyclopedia on motherhood for Sage Press (3 volumes, 700 entries), scheduled for publication April 2010.
As a result of last minute changes several entries are in need of contributors.
PLEASE SEE LIST BELOW. If you are interested please contact sue@golsonmedia.com at your earliest convenience (she will provide full information and instructions).
Thanks so much
Best,
Andrea O'Reilly
aoreilly@yorku.ca
LIST
subject; word length
Displacement 900
Environments and Mothering 2000
Infanticide 2,000
Infidelity and Motherhood 1,200
Maternal Abject (Kristeva) 800
Maternal Pedagogy 1200
Matricide 900
Mid-Life Mothering 1,200
Midwifery 1,500
Morrison, Toni 1000
Mothering and Creativity 1,200
Mother-in-Law 800
Motherless Daughters 900
Motherline 800
Music and Mothers 2500
Myth, Mothers in 1,500
Paganism (New Paganism) and Mothering 900
Reproduction of Mothering 900
Sons And Mothers 1500
Stepmothers 2000
Technology and Motherhood 1,200
Wicca and Mothering 800
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Dr. Andrea O'Reilly,
Associate Professor,
School of Women's Studies,
Founder-Director: Association for Research on Mothering,
Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, Demeter Press,
Co-Founder, Museum of Motherhood,
Co-Founder, International Mothers Network,
Editor, Encyclopedia of Motherhood, Sage Press, 2010.
York University,
Toronto, Ont.,
M3J 1P3
416 736 2100;60366
aoreilly@yorku.ca
www.yorku.ca/arm
SHE WRITES is a new social network where women writers working in every genre--in every part of the world and of all ages and backgrounds--can come together in a space of mutual support. Join us!
For more information, visit http://www.shewrites.com/notes/FAQ
How it works:
Enter at goodhousekeeping.com/shortstory by submitting a short story no longer than 3,500 words, on a theme that focuses on the lives of women today. Submission must be original, not previously published or a finalist for any other prize or award. Please include your full name, address, daytime phone number, and e-mail address.
Eligibility: Contest is open to anyone, age 21 or older, who is a legal resident of the United States or District of Columbia.
Deadlines: Manuscripts will be accepted beginning June 5, 2009. All entries must be received by September 15, 2009. Only one entry per person allowed. Submitted material cannot be returned or acknowledged. Winners will be notified in December 2009. Decisions of the judging panel are final.
Prizes: One grand-prize winner will receive $3,000 and possible publication of the winning story in the May 2010 issue. Two runners-up will each receive $750 and may have their stories published on goodhousekeeping.com.
For official contest rules, go to goodhousekeeping.com/shortstory.
vox poetica, an online poetry salon, is seeking poems on all elements of motherhood: birth, baby care, sleepless nights, sending kids to kindergarten or college, the ups, the downs, the highs, the lows, the unexpected joys and sorrows, the whole collective of the thing.
Poetry is the lifeblood of creative expression, the perfect union of sound and image, and vox poetica is the place to share it. Click on the submit your poem page of http://www.voxpoetica.com for more information and online submission. Poetry: read it, write it, share it!
Annmarie Lockhart
Editor
vox poetica
annmarie@voxpoetica.com
2,000-4,000 words
Payment: upon publication
Editors: Candace Walsh and Laura André
Contact: candace.walshATgmail.com
As Dr. Lisa Diamond’s recent ground-breaking book Sexual Fluidity
makes clear, women’s sexual desire and identity are capable of
shifting. Cynthia Nixon, Carol Leifer, Wanda Sykes, Portia de Rossi,
and countless others have left the fold of heterosexual identity to
enter into or pursue same-sex relationships.
Although this book will evolve as we receive submissions, we welcome
first-person essays from women,
1. who were aware that they had always felt robust same-sex desires,
but wanted to try to make it work in the straight world, and also
2. women who identified as heterosexual at one time, but found that
the situation they were in just naturally led to embarking on an
intimate romantic relationship with a woman.
(We also welcome essays from women who don’t fit precisely into the
above descriptions, of course.)
Here are some questions that we’d like answered in your piece. It may be one of the questions, or you may touch on most of them, and throw
in some extra, great stuff that didn’t even occur to us.
How did you come to your moment of truth?
Did your perception of yourself change?
Do you feel that others’ perceptions of you changed? Did they surprise you with either an unexpected positive or negative reaction? How did this affect you? Did their reactions change over time?
Do you feel like you surrendered heterosexuality or elements of
heterosexual privilege? Do you feel like your new life with a woman
has yielded rewards? What were the rewards you expected and which ones were surprises?
What do you miss? What do you not miss? Everything from in the bedroom to out at dinner, at a wedding, as a parent, as a family member, at the gym, in the workplace, on a picnic—whatever comes up for you.
What is this journey like, in general and for you? How did you feel as you were setting out on it and how do you feel now? How do you mark your progress? Were there stages? Illustrative moments? Looking back, do you feel like you went through certain phases?
What is it like to shift your identity? What about you is the same and always will be? What about you has changed or altered?
How did you feel as you began your relationship with a woman? Did you get flak from individuals who second-guessed you? Did you feel like
you had to prove yourself? How did you keep your internal balance?
How did your socialization as a straight woman prepare you (ill or
well) for pursuing a woman or being in a relationship with a woman?
Do you like, or are you attracted to certain things that your partner or girlfriend, or gay women do that are traditionally labeled as
masculine? Feminine?
How do you define yourself? Do you feel like the current “labels” work for you or that what you are is not yet defined by a word or phrase?
What paradigm do you imagine?
Are you still with the woman you left your previous relationship for?
Was she just a catalyst, or a rebound, or something else, or “the one”?
As editors, we value specificity, detail, “showing, not telling,”
honesty, epiphanies, clean, polished, yet real writing, and the
sharing of insights.
The Mom Egg is an annual journal of poetry, fiction, creative prose and art; we publish sharp, insightful, lyrical, inventive, disruptive, cynical, hilarious, and resonant work by mothers about everything, and by everyone on the subject matter of mothers or motherhood.
Submissions for our Fall 09 special online issue accepted through July 31st.
Guidelines and selections from past issues, as well as links to purchase back issues, are on our website, www.themomegg.com
Motherhood to a poet means more than lost sleep. Our class will
consider motherhood as a formal constraint: a tongue-tying through
which we widen the range of our voices. We will help to unstrap the
sweetness, unfurl the frustration, unwind the wonder of motherhood,
creating the space for bold new work. If you’re a mother who’s ready
to return to writing, join us as we read, draft new poems and connect
with others who have one hand on the cradle while the other pushes the
pen.
We are leading the writing class at the Richard Hugo House in Seattle WA next month for women poets who are ready to return to writing after
the birth of a child. We are so excited about what we will be able to
offer new mothers: a forum for community and a lot of practical advice
for how to get writing again. As new mothers ourselves, we felt like
we were reinventing the wheel as we worked to create new writing
habits, and find new models, that fit with our new days. We decided to
lead this class out of a strong desire to offer the support we wished
was available to us. Returning to poetry after the birth of a child
marks a critical juncture in the writing life, and our goal is to
offer peer support and practical ideas for harnessing the scattered
time.
Our class meets Saturday mornings from 10am-noon on July 11th, 18th,
25th, and August 1st. Registration is open now through Hugo House's
website: www.hugohouse.org.
Megan Snyder-Camp's novel-in-verse, The Forest of Sure Things, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. Laura Shoemaker is currently writing a poetry collection that includes poems about and around the subject of motherhood. Both Laura and Megan are Seattle-based poets and mothers who received their MFAs in poetry from the University of Washington.