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Fall 2007 Short Fiction Writing Contest
 

Deadline: Monday, November 12, 2007
Entry Fee: $10.00

We are accepting submissions for our short fiction writing contest starting September 24, 2007.  It may be any genre and should be between 800 - 1,500 words. The stories submitted will be judged by MWLM Editors, and we will choose one grand prize winner to receive $100.

Click here to submit your fiction story.

We look forward to reading your work!

Good Luck!

Congratulations to our Summer Short Fiction Contest Winner!

We Believe You to Be Our Mother
by Linda C. Wisniewski
 

Our Feature Cover Story for MWLM

Mom Writer Lisa Garrigues: The Importance of Writing Motherhood
by Stephanie McCarty

As mom writers, many of us recognize the benefits that come with writing about our motherhood experiences. Now, award-winning writer and experienced educator, Lisa Garrigues, has created an invaluable resource for any mother, writer or not, to begin chronicling her own unique journey through motherhood.

In her new book, “Writing Motherhood,” Garrigues draws on her own efforts to balance the demands of motherhood and writing, showing readers how everyday life can be a rich source of stories, and how writing can provide a means to understand and document their experiences... 

Our Profiles

Visit with mom author, Carol Evans
interviewed by MWLM’s Jackie Papandrew

Ask Carol Evans, owner and CEO of Working Mother Media, why she wrote “This Is How We Do It: The Working Mothers’ Manifesto,” and she will tell you she wrote it because she got mad.

“I was really angry,” Evans explains, “because I was still being asked to do interviews on the topic of whether mothers should work...”

Our Profile

Visit with mom author, Jayne Jaudon Ferrer
interviewed by MWLM’s Jackie Papandrew

Jayne Jaudon Ferrer says the hardest thing about being a writer is also the hardest thing about being a mother: “The hours. There are never enough.” The author of several books of inspirational, thought-provoking poetry about motherhood says her latest book of poems, “She of the Rib,” represents a new, bolder direction for her writing — one that targets women in general rather than mothers in particular. Jaudon Ferrer, a resident of Greenville, SC, is a full-time writer with a husband and three sons. She’s been writing stories since she was a child growing up in Florida, and one of her stories was published in her hometown paper when she was a fourth grader. During junior high, she wrote a weekly column for that same newspaper and then got a big break in high school when the Tampa Tribune agreed to carry a series of interviews she’d done with country music stars, such as Kenny Rogers, Jeannie C. Riley and Jerry Reed. “I've been writing and publishing ever since...”

Our Guest Profile

Visit with mom author, Michelle Herman
interviewed by Kathy Schlaeger

Michelle Herman is the author of the novel “Missing” (1990); the collection of novellas “A New and Glorious Life” (1998); the novella “Dog”(2005); and her first nonfiction book “The Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood” (2005). Michelle Herman was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. In 1988, she began teaching at Ohio State University, where she co-founded the MFA Program in Creative Writing. Today she is professor of English, and in addition to teaching, she is also the director of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences Freshman Common Book program and the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Fine Arts. She lives with her husband, painter Glen Holland, and their 14-year-old daughter, Grace. Her daughter’s dog, Molly, was the inspiration for her book, “Dog...”

Our Guest Features

From Single to Only
by Jane Hammons

A Tale of Two Ariels
by Christina Kapp

Birthday Wishes
by Jennifer Lang

Some Like it Hot When Twisting Themselves into Knots
by Audrey D. Mark

Noble Gas
by Lily Owyang

Careful Or You'll End Up in My Novel
by Patti See

MWLM Columnists

Check out all of our down-to-earth columns by the MWLM’s regular columnists – Lucie Bouchard Antoniazzi, Jennifer Brown, Samantha Gianulis, Karrie McAllister, Stephanie McCarty, Tracy Lyn Moland, Sharon O'Donnell, Jackie Papandrew, Lisa Rickwood, Denise Roy, Dionna Sanchez, Linda Sharp, and Julie Watson Smith.

Our Book Reviews

The Mother-Daughter Project: How Mothers and Daughters Can Band Together, Beat the Odds, and Thrive Through Adolescence
Reviewed by Jennifer Brown

The only emotion as overpowering as the incredible awe, joy and love you feel when holding your infant daughter in your arms for the first time, is the fear that you will lose her in time, when she joins the legions of her mom-hating adolescent peers. Despite the plans you may have for bonding with your little girl, despite femininity-embracing, girl-powerful blueprints you’ve drawn for the two of you, a part of you somewhere deep down may be resigned to waiting for the day when your little girl wants nothing to do with you...

Still Summer
Reviewed by Jennifer Brown

What woman wouldn’t jump at the chance for a vacation on the sea, especially one that would allow her to reconnect with her high school girlfriends while sailing to exotic ports unknown? What woman wouldn’t consider a vacation like that a dream come true? In Jacquelyn Mitchard’s “Still Summer” we find out how dreamlike – or nightmarish, perhaps – a vacation on the sea can become...
 

Our Poetry

If Only Someone Would Clean My House
by Jessica Ciosek

Inside
by Kris Underwood
 

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We are a literary magazine for mothers with something to say and we honor the fulfilling and tedious work that women do by making their stories visible through print.