Mom Egg Review publishes reviews of recent books (including chapbooks) of poetry, fiction and creative prose, by mother writers, and of books focused on motherhood or women’s experiences and issues. If you are interested in having your book reviewed, please visit Book Review Request for more info.
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Review by Jane Ward In Circling Flight is the first novel by Jane Harrington, short story author and professor of English at Washington & Lee University. In 2019, the manuscript was awarded the Brighthorse Prize, an honor which included…
Review by Emily Webber In Zoe Ballering’s short story collection, There Is Only Us, each of the eight speculative fiction stories is surprising, funny, and thought-provoking. In stories spread across time—biblical times, pandemic times, future worlds—Ballering’s characters often face…
Review by Jennifer Martelli Elizabeth Strauss Friedman writes in her title, “Lost Positive (Centaurus Constellation—Centaur),” Untamed| As women ought to be, life outside male invalidation advertently galloping into stardust. In her latest collection, The Lost Positive, Constellation Poems, Strauss…
Review by Hester L. Furey Nicole Callihan’s new book This Strange Garment delivers a stunning sequence of poems about the experience of breast cancer. A survivor myself, I selected the book for the theme, remembering Audre Lorde’s insistence that…
Review by Sherre Vernon Lisa C. Taylor is the author of two collections of short fiction, Impossibly Small Spaces (Arlen House, 2018) and Growing a New Tail (Arlen House, 2015), as well as five collections of poetry including Interrogation…
Review by Jennifer Martelli I’ve come to love the epistolary form, which is defined as literary work that reads as a letter or letters. Relationships are laid out on a surgeon’s table, emotions revealed through the mechanisms…
Review by Jane Ward In Barnflower: A Rhode Island Farm Memoir, award-winning short story writer and poet Carla Panciera presents a deeply moving collection of nineteen standalone stories that, read as a whole, pay tribute to the years she…
Review by Michelle Panik Splashed on the cover of Everything’s Changing is a woman in glamorous sunglasses and a headwrap à la Jackie O, her figure a 3-D image edged with bright colors. And, indeed, the people within Chelsea…
Review by Ana C.H. Silva Dragonfly Morning, consisting of twenty poems, heavily illustrated over its fifty one pages by both Eihmane and Bridget Irving, put out by Being Books, is a wonderful follow up to Eihmane’s recent chapbook, One…
Review by Barbara Ellen Sorensen Millicent Borges Accardi’s Quarantine Highway is an exploration of human beings finding new ways to be together in the midst of a pandemic. Her poems encompass relationships as well as separations and borders, and…