New section of Literary Mama wants you!!!
Jan 27, 2006 Writing
We’ve had a hell of a time over at Literary Mama to try to figure out how to manage the commentary section. We just decided to start running it as an op-ed and I would be very interested in hearing from you, my brilliant writing/blogging friends!
Opeds will run 500 to 800 words, which means we’re looking for tight, opinionated, focused writing. This is a place to go with your strong opinions about topics important to you as mothers and as creative women. We welcome your controversial topics as long as your argument is sound and compelling. Topical is GREAT!!!
Now 500 to 800 words is basically a blog entry so if you’ve just written a terrific rant, think about sending it to us before you hit “publish.”
Literary Mama doesn’t pay but it means getting fabulous exposure. We get between 40,000 and 50,000 visitors a month and our email list is over 800 members!!! We also had our first anthology come out this month!! In short, it makes for a nice clip! You’ll find yourself in the company of a lot of fabulous writers (check out our site to see) and we LOVE discovering new writers, too, so don’t let lack of clips make you scared of submitting.
You can send your commentary submissions to me at oped@literarymama.com. (I don’t know how often we’ll be updating this section — a lot will depend on how much quality work we get.)
January 28th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
Oooh - excellent! I have spent _months_ working on a response to Tricia Smith Vaughan’s anti-adoption article, and had it within spitting distance of getting finished by the time I read this. So, with this incentive, I have finally managed to finish it _and_ polish my ramble down to a mere 798 words, and I’ll send it on to you. Even if you don’t think it’s publishable, I would love to have your opinion (the opinions expressed in it owe a great deal to this blog!) And dammit, but it’s good to have that article finally finished.
January 30th, 2006 at 10:33 am
Hmmm…just the right place for me to rant to a larger audience. As soon as I’m done with my review of the anthology, watch out!
January 30th, 2006 at 12:17 pm
Will you take pieces that have already been published (say, on my site) or are you looking for entirely new material?
Just wondering!