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The Mom Writer’s Literary Magazine
Mom Writers Who Have Something To Say
September 2006
Hello Mom Writers!
Welcome to the fall issue of the Mom Writer's Literary Magazine Newsletter. In this issue you will find creative, enlightening and inspiring writing by mom writers and authors. We are thrilled to bring you a collection of writing that covers a variety of topics, including book reviews, poetry, creative nonfiction essays and recent interviews with mom authors, Gayle Brandeis,Susan Reinhardt, Alicia Bayer and Amy Tiemann. Our Feature Cover story is on best-selling author, speaker and TV personality Stacy DeBroff. We have a special MWLM Give-Away this issue. We will randomly select a winner from our MWLM Newsletter subscribers to win a one year subscription to Writer’s Digest Magazine. If you are lucky enough to have your name drawn, you'll receive an email from editor@momwriterslitmag.com asking for your mailing address. So sign up today and Good Luck!
I would like to take a moment to thank everyone who is a part of MWLM for all their dedication and support. Without you, we would not be the literary magazine we are today, so thank you! We have added some new names and faces to our team that I am excited about. Our new profile editor is Jackie Papandrew, who is also one of our columnists. Our former Senior Editor and Webmaster, Lucie Bouchard Antoniazzi has taken a new position as Illustrations Editor and funny mom writer Jennifer Brown is now our Senior Editor. Karrie McAllister is our Webmaster and also joining us as regular columnists are Karrie McAllister and Samantha Gianulis whose poetry and an essay were in our special one-year summer issue. Welcome to all these great ladies! Also, please check out our new Writer’s Resources page!
Check out the MWLM Blog this issue - If you are a mom writer who has something to say, let us know and you may add your post at editor@momwriterlitmag.com.
We hope you enjoy this issue of our magazine. We’d love to include writing from more mom writers like you. If interested, see our Writer’s Guidelines on the magazine’s website to submit your writing to us. Our winter issue will be available December 18, 2006. Please send us your thoughts and suggestions, as our primary objective is to be an online magazine that you can’t wait to visit and share with your friends and colleagues.
Happy Reading and Writing,
Paula Schmitt, Editor
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Fall 2006 Short Fiction Writing Contest
Deadline: December 1, 2006
Entry Fee: None
We are accepting submissions for our short fiction writing contest starting
October 1st, 2006. It may be any genre and the word limit is up to
1,200 words. The stories submitted will be judged by MWLM Editors, and we will
choose one grand prize winner to receive $100.
One entry per writer.
Please send your
submission to:
editor@momwriterslitmag.com
No attachments please - they will not be opened.
We look forward to reading your work!
Good Luck!
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Our Feature Cover Story for MWLM
Passion Creates Future Role Models
by Tracy Lyn Moland
Whether it's a high five from Samuel Jackson, a cancelled interview due to terrorist scares or providing expert advice, parenting guru Stacy DeBroff leads a very exciting life. Just trying to track her down for an interview in the midst of a 10-city media tour as the spokesperson for Office Depot’s “Organize to Learn” campaign was nearly impossible. However a certain group of people do not have to compete for this mom writer’s time – her family. With weekly media appearances including being a regular on The Today Show, to running a successful business, to consulting with multinational companies, Stacy is first and foremost a mother and wife. She lives with her husband Ron, 13-year-old daughter Kyle and 12-year-old son Brooks. “Everyone tells me I am so lucky because I have such nice kids,” DeBroff says. “But it goes beyond luck and does take some effort. My office is right there. I am always available to my kids...”
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Our Profile
Visit with mom author,
Gayle Brandeis
interviewed by MWLM’s Jackie Papendrew
Award-winning author Gayle Brandeis says motherhood has profoundly affected her writing. Her novel, The Book of Dead Birds, won the prestigious Bellwether Prize for Fiction in 2002, and she was named one of “Six Writers Who Made a Difference” by The Writer magazine in 2004. Brandeis has performed as a dancer in Southern California and is currently the writer-in-residence for the Mission Inn Foundation’s Family Voices Project in Riverside, CA...
Our Guest Profiles
Visit with mom author, Dr. Amy Tiemann
interviewed by Christine Louise Hohlbaum
Visit with mom author, Susan Reinhardt
interviewed by Kathy Schlaeger
Visit with mom author, Alicia Bayer
interviewed by BethAnne Yoxsimer Paulsrud
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Our Guest Features
Mother's Day
by Shannon Chapel, RN
Toddler Land “Disillusioned”
by Melissa Fulwiderhe Weight
Ironing: The New Spa Treatment
by Gina Gort
Brave Enough to Create and Give Away
by Monica Haydee Di Santi
Looking for a Sign
by Susan M. Heim
Farmer of Life
by Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Slicing Tomatoes
by Samantha Leigh
Competitive Coffee - Sipping and Social Climbing in the Suburbs
by Audrey D. Mark
Mom's Last Stand Against Clutter
by Sheryl Oliver
In Pursuit of Leisure
by Carolyn Prescott
My Name is Wendy, and I'm a Napaholic
by Wendy Sang Kelly
Manhattan Playdate Scene
by Eileen Travers
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MWLM Columnists
Check out all of our down-to-earth columns by the
MWLM’s regular columnists – Lucie Bouchard Antoniazzi,
Jennifer Brown, Nicole Dean, Samantha Gianulis, Karrie McAllister, Stephanie McCarty, Tracy Lyn Moland, Sharon O'Donnell, Jackie Papandrew, Lisa Rickwood,Karen Rinehart, Dionna Sanchez, Linda Sharp,
and Julie Watson Smith.
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Our Book Reviews
The
Truth Behind the Mommy Wars: Who Decides What Makes a Good Mother?
Reviewed by Tracy Lyn Moland
Miriam Peskowitz has successfully taken on a challenge that all parents, children and employers face – The Mommy Wars. However in her book she goes beyond what has often been considered the “Mommy War” – that between stay at home moms and work out of the home moms. As Peskowitz describes in excellent anecdotes, examples, statistics, studies and personal experiences there is no one definition of Mommy...
Peanut Butter, Playdates & Prozac: Tales of a Modern Mom
Reviewed by Tracy Lyn Moland
As I lay in bed crying from laughing so hard and reading excerpts to my husband, I knew I had found the perfect Mom book. After reading Schuster’s comment, ‘“Because I said so” is reason enough’ in the section entitled Your Mother Said You’d Understand When You Had kids of Your Own I knew I had found a Mother writer who spoke my language...
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Our Poetry
Her Life
by Liz Abrams-Morley
Who I Am and Was
by Georgie Lee Blalock III
Prayer
by Jennifer Budenski
Four and a Half
by Ann Campanella
First Day ~ A Mother Prays
by Karen Heywood
Acorns
by Jacqueline Jules
On Contemplating College before Preschool
by Britt Kaufmann
Signs of Character
by Jeanne Lesinski
A Letter for Our Holiday
by Mona Loring
Milkweed
by Lorriann McGarvey
ASD
by Alice Osborn
While Everyone Else Sleeps
by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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