Chicken Soup for the Soul is seeking stories related to Stay-at-Home and Work-from-Home Moms, with a deadline of September 1, 2008. I found the call of submission here, on the Literary Mama blog. I had trouble finding the exact call of submission on the Chicken Soup for the Soul website though. Nevertheless, the guidelines are still there.
Women’s Studies Quarterly is also seeking academic papers, memoirs, poetry, and essays on the topic of motherhood.
Topics to be explored include:
· Discourses around motherhood and how they are shaped by race, ethnicity, immigrant status and sexuality
· Mothers in the workplace: The price of motherhood, “mommy tracking” and “maternal wall,” “opting out”
· The “mommy wars”: Stay-at-home moms vs. working moms
· The paid and unpaid work of mothering and caregiving; the “second shift”
· Motherhood, loss and grief: Infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth and infant and child death
· Motherhood and disability/special needs
· Intensive mothering: Ideologies and practices around co-sleeping, breastfeeding, homeschooling and unschooling, toilet-training, tutoring
· Mothers as consumers: The marketing of motherhood
· Pregnancy: The medicalization of and birthing practices, representations of the mother’s body, assisted reproductive technologies (ART), surrogacy, abortion and reproductive choice
· New models of motherhood: LGBT moms, young moms, single mothers, stepmothers and blended families
· Men as moms: Stay-at-home dads, coparenting, single fathers
· Immigration and motherhood; global labor chains
· Childcare and domestic labor: Practices, issues and politics
· Motherhood and ecofeminism, explorations of “mother nature”
· Mommy lit as its own brand of chick-lit and the new “dad” books
· Mothers and digital media: The role of mommy blogs, list-servs, message boards and social networking sites
· Adoption: Transnational and domestic, transracial
· Motherhood and public policy: From debates about FMLA to activist groups such as MomsRising
· Mothering older children, mothering adult children, grandmothering
· Motherhood and Third Wave Feminism
· The experiences of women who choose not to mother
· Mothering in comparative, global and transnational contexts
If submitting academic work, please send abstracts by September 30, 2008 to the guest editors Pamela Stone and Nicole Cooley at: WSQMotherIssue@gmail.com. If accepted:
Full papers should be no longer than 22 pages, and will be due by January 1, 2009.
Poetry submissions should be sent to WSQ’s poetry editor Kathleen Ossip, at ossipk@aol.com, by January 1, 2009.
Fiction, essay, and memoir submissions should be sent to WSQ’s fiction/nonfiction editor, Susan Daitch, at sdaitch@hunter.cuny.edu by January 1, 2009.
Art submissions should be sent to WSQMotherIssue@gmail.com by January 1, 2009. Please keep in mind that after art is reviewed and accepted, accepted art must be sent to the journal’s managing editor on a CD that includes all artwork of 300 DPI or greater, saved as 4.25 inches wide or larger. These files should be saved as individual JPEGS or TIFFS
More info can be found here, on the Literary Mama blog.
