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Spring 2007 Short Fiction Writing Contest

Deadline: May 7, 2007
Entry Fee: None

We are accepting submissions for our short fiction writing contest starting March 27, 2007. It may be any genre and the word count between 800 - 1,500words. 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!

Congratulations to our Winter Short Fiction Contest Winner!

Engraved on Styrofoam by Lauri Griffin

Honorable Mention:  A Stolen Me by Julie Sucha Anderson

Our Feature Cover Story for MWLM

Comic relief for suburban moms
by Stephanie McCarty

Our Profile

Visit with mom author, Cathi Hanauer
interviewed by MWLM’s Jackie Papandrew

Cathi Hanauer is the author of two novels, Sweet Ruin (2006) and My Sister’s Bones (1996), and the editor of a best-selling essay collection The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood and Marriage (2002) – a book she says was born out of anger. She has written for publications such as Elle, O, Self, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Parenting, and Child. She also wrote the monthly advice column “Relating” for Seventeen for seven years. She has taught writing at The New School in New York and at the University of Arizona. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, writer and The New York Times “Modern Love” editor Daniel Jones, and their daughter and son...

Our Profile

Visit with mom author, Martha O'Connor
interviewed by MWLM’s Jackie Papandrew

Martha O’Connor’s explosive debut novel, The Bitch Posse, chronicles the crisscrossed lives of three best friends – first as seniors in high school, then as women in their 30’s – who share a terrible secret that will rip them apart. It’s a raw and gritty book that will “walk alongside you and haunt your dreams, long after you turn the last page,” according to author Jacquelyn Mitchard.

O’Connor, a mother of twins, says she wrote the book as a love letter to all the girls who never quite fit in. A graduate of Bowling Green State University, she is married to award-winning writer Philip F. O’Connor and lives with her family in Marin County, Calif. She is currently working on another novel and divides her time between writing, juvenile diabetes advocacy (her son was diagnosed in July 2004), and watching her daughter perform in plays. ..

Our Guest Profiles

Visit with mom author, Mary Pierce Brosmer
interviewed by Kathy Schlaeger

Mary Pierce Brosmer is a poet, teacher, mother, grandmother and a visionary for saner communities and organizations. After receiving an English degree, she became a high school teacher. When she became a mother, she chose to stay home with her son for two years. She had a long-term plan to pursue a doctorate degree, but things changed when she turned 35. She and her husband divorced, and she made the decision to stay in Cincinnati so that her son could be near his father.

After her divorce, Brosmer spent a lot of time using her own writing to sort out where she was going with her life. She began to take her writing seriously. Then one night, Brosmer had a dream about women gathered around a table sharing their stories. From this vision, she founded Women Writing for (a) Change with 15 students in 1991. This safe place for women to speak their truths to one another has grown into a program with 150 students enrolled in classes at the Cincinnati center...

Our Guest Features

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Middle age
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Please send my son home exhausted!
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The dog question
by Andrea Marcusa

Five or six survival tips for the writer/mom
by Heather Moore

My mentor
by Monica Lynn Moraca

A mother's dream
by Stacey Nebel

Cookie from Hell
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A well-timed movement
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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,Karen Rinehart, Denise Roy, Dionna Sanchez, Linda Sharp, and Julie Watson Smith.

Our Book Review

Reviews of mom fiction writers
Reviewed by Tracy Lyn Moland

For this issue a few of the books I reviewed were fiction rather than how-to guides for mothers. Ultimate Terror by Carole Holden and Journey Out of Darkness by Jean Darby reminded me that we, as mothers who write, are all extremely different. Much of what we have reviewed to this date are books written based upon experiences in parenting. Both of these books stem from a love of and career in writing. I think this a great reminder to our readers that as mothers we are incredibly talented and can (and should) write about anything and everything – as long as we are passionate about it.

Our Guest Book Review

The No-Cry Discipline Solution
Reviewed by Tera Schreiber

There comes a time in every parent’s life when a sweet and cooing child first hurls a bowl of oatmeal in defiance and frustration. The parent has never before seen the skills of that child reach the point of purposeful misbehavior and the parent suddenly faces the inevitable need for discipline. This need for discipline continues to plague parents, despite our best prayers and wishes, for what seems to be an eternity. Hearing our anguished calls, Elizabeth Pantley has taken her “No-Cry” parenting philosophy made popular through The No-Cry Sleep Solution books, and honed in on the subject of discipline.

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