A discussion, led by panelists Maria Colaco, Leslie Fields-Cruz, Sarah Haviland, Kathleen Pemble, Lowry Reinaur, and Dar Williams follows the film.
Details :
May 1, 2010
6:30 p.m.
Peekskill Hat Factory
1000 North Division Street , Peekskill, New York
$30 per person
Benefits The Garden Road School's Arts in Education Programs
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 editors will select the $1,000 grand-prize winner and the three runners-up stories. The four "winning" stories will be published--along with 45-47 other stories (selected by yours truly)--in A Cup of Comfort for Couples. The book will be compiled and edited by, you guessed it, yours truly. The grand-prize-winning story will also be excerpted in REDBOOK. The finalists as well as the winners and all stories published in the book will be announced in the Cup of Comfort Blog (also, by the way, written by yours truly).
We're looking for real-life stories about romantic relationships that work and last. Stories must be true, original, postive, 1,000-2,000 words, and be submitted at www.cupofcomfort.com.
Submission deadline: April 20, 2010
*** Ona Gritz, LM Columnist and poet, will be reading with Dan Simpson at the Cornelia Street Cafe on Friday, April 2nd. They will be alternating poems to create a conversation.
The event begins with an open reading at 6pm.
Cornelia Street Cafe is at 29 Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village -- just west of Sixth Avenue between West 4th and Bleeker. The cover charge of $7 includes one house drink.
*** Kate Haas, LM CNF CoEditor, published "the baby" at errant parent, an online magazine "where top-notch, offbeat, parenting humor comes first, and baking homemade snickerdoodles comes second."
** Maria Scala, LM Column Editor, was the March 26th featured guest on LM Columnist Cassie Premo Steele's poetry radio show. Cassie's Poetry Show highlights the themes of women's lives, spirituality, relationships, healing, and the natural world.
The Friends of the Association for Research on Mothering has begun a fundraising campaign and is looking for volunteers. (Due to budget constraints, the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) is scheduled to close on May 1, 2010.)
Linn Baran, Outreach Coordinator, needs 10 volunteers. Work can be done from the comfort of your own home and involves approximately five hours this week and next week. Contact Linn (linnbaran@sympatico.ca) if interested.
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 years of pregnancy and nursing?
Share your stories!
Please send your real-life stories (short or long, 500-2000 words) by
September 1, 2010 to:
Rachel Epp Buller, rachel@ddtr.net
Subject line: comic nursing stories
Please include a 50-word bio along with your story
Jessica Berger Gross, who wrote LM's Passport to Parenting and Mama's Boy columns from 2005 to 2009, was the subject of Rebecca Walker's March 15th blog post at The Huffington Post.
In celebration of the paperback release of "One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Polyamory, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love," Walker's entries this month ask contributors and other writers she admires to discuss their wild, messy, loving, non-traditional families.
Literary Mama is seeking a reviews editor! You will join our two current editors in obtaining review copies and soliciting reviews, and then work closely with writers to hone their reviews. Please send a letter detailing your interest and past editing experience to LMinfo AT literarymama DOT com. Please note that we can't offer any compensation for this position; we are all volunteers here.
Due to budget constraints, the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) will close on May 1, 2010. The Toronto, Canada-based organization -- and the first international feminist organization devoted to mothering/motherhood -- has been affiliated with York University's Women's Studies program since its inception in 1998.
In 1999, ARM launched the Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering (JARM), and in 2006, created Demeter Press, a peer-reviewed scholarly press devoted specifically to the topics of mothering and motherhood. At this writing, Demeter Press will continue operations. Click here to visit the new website and view the latest catalog.
Reading Period: March 1 - June 15, 2010
Have you been meaning to write about your mother, your father or yourself as a parent? Is there some one in your life who has been like a mother or father to you? It's on our minds as Mother's Day and Father's Day approach and Sheila Bender's Writing It Real, an online magazine for those who write from personal experience, announces a poetry and essay contest on the topic.
Guidelines
We are seeking creative non-fiction essays and poems about mothers and fathers and our own mothering and fathering. Work that honors parents, meditates on memories and losses, and/or examines successes and failures in parenting as well as the ways in which we find alternative parents is welcome. Essays and poems submitted must be previously unpublished. Send an essay up to six pages, double-spaced or up to three poems by June 15, 2010. We'll announce our list of winners by the end of July.
Cash Prizes and More!
First Place: $100
Second Place: $50
Third Place: $25
In addition to the prize money, the top three prizewinners will also win their choice of:
free admission to one of Sheila's Writing It Real online classes OR
a half-hour email or phone consultation with Sheila.
10 Honorable Mentions will receive a detailed written response from Sheila Bender.
Three winners will be published in a summer issue of Writing It Real with the author's permission.
Entry Fees
If you are a current subscriber, your entry fee is $15. If you'd like to renew your subscription the fee is $45 dollars, which includes your next year's subscription to Writing It Real. If you are not yet a subscriber, your entry fee of $45 includes a year's subscription as well as the reading fee. Your subscription begins as soon as the entry arrives. To read more about Writing It Real please visit our magazine page.
Mailed Essays
Mailed submissions must be accompanied by a check for US$45 for new or lapsed subscribers or US$15 for current subscribers. Checks should be made payable to "Writing It Real". The submitted essay or poems must be accompanied by a cover sheet that contains the author's name, title of the essay or poems, phone number, address and email. Don't worry; the cover sheet won't be counted toward length. Mailed submissions will NOT be returned -- NO SASE's please. Mail to:
Writing It Real Contest
394 Colman Drive
Port Townsend, WA 98368