CONNECTING, EDUCATING, ADVOCATING, & LEADING SINCE 1917 WNBA Writing Contest 2018 The Women’s National Book Association Writing Contest is now open! Submit Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction/Memoir and Young Adult. Publication for top 4 winners in each category and Cash Prize for…
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Suzanne Kamata Suzanne Kamata’s fourth novel The Mermaids of Lake Michigan was published earlier this year, and won a Silver IPPY Award. She has also recently published a novella-length travelogue, A Girl’s Guide to the Islands, about exploring Japan’s Inland…
Our friend and longtime MER community member Fay Chiang has passed on/transitioned. I don’t usually share too much that’s personal online, but others’ generous words have helped me, so in that same spirit here are some thoughts. I met Fay through Bob…
Estelle Bruno was already in her 80’s when she began contributing work to Mom Egg. Her work was known for its economy and wit. She passed away in Oct. 2017. Here is a poem from The Mom Egg Vol.6. …
Felice Aull’s poetry collection, Mandatory Evacuation Zone, was published in July. Several poems originally published in Mom Egg Review are included. Poet Jean Marie Beaumont comments, “Felice Aull is always attuned to the histories and traumas that haunt the present…
WTAW Press is open for submissions of full-length prose manuscripts through September 15. We welcome submissions from writers unpublished, extensively published, and in between. We don’t privilege one aesthetic over another: we want to publish books that show us more…
Janet Garber’s comic debut novel, Dream Job, Wacky Adventures of an HR Manager, has been named a Runner-Up in the 2016 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book contest and a Finalist in the 2017 New Generation Indie Book Awards, making the…
Barbara Crooker has a new book out, Les Fauves, “a collection of ekphrastic poetry, meditations on paintings from the Fauve and Post-Impressionist movements. But it also contains poetry’s equivalent to Fauvism, poems that take a walk on the wild side…” https://www.amazon.com/dp/1936196697/?tag=barbaracrooke-20 Hester…
Calls for Submissions – “Nasty Women” From Deena November and Nina S. Padolf Staghorn Poetry Series is putting together Nasty Woman & Bad Hombre Anthology to be published by Lascaux Editions in the summer of 2017! This anthology seeks poetry,…
Not for Mothers Only Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing Edited by Catherine Wagner and Rebecca Wolff & with a foreward by Alicia Ostriker Not for Mothers Only collects poems on a range of subjects under the motherhood umbrella, some…