Mother Poetry Contest

Woman-Stirred is having a poetry contest! Email your poems on the subject "mother" to womanstirred@earthlink.net. Include your name and full postal address. (Do not send attachments. Emails with attachments will be deleted unread.)

• No entry fee!
• Open to everyone!
• Deadline is March 1, 2006.
• Winner will be announced on UK Mother's Day, March 26, 2006.

Winner's poem will be published on Woman-Stirred (including your profile - bio, photo, links - if you wish). Your poem and profile will remain online indefinitely. Other prizes include:

• Sinister Wisdom #65 on Lesbian Mothers and Grandmothers
• Jan Steckel's poetry chapbook, The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press, 2006)
• a custom-written Woman-Stirred Sonnet by Mary Meriam
• Julie R. Enszer's popular broadsheet "When We Were Feminists"