Cover Girl Contest with Get Born and G. Mark Art - $10.00
Size limit: 100
get born is holding an ongoing cover girl contest in conjunction with G. Mark Art! $10 to participate. Attach a photo of yourself and why you'd like to be on the cover of Get Born.*chosen models will need to travel to Loveland, Colorado for the photo shoot
Personal Essay
Includes: Cultural Views from the Motherworld, Thoughts and Perspectives, The Naked Truth, True Confessions, and Belly Laughs and the new Dad’s Column.We are looking for personal essays that reflect real mother’s experiences and also have a larger, universal connection to her growth as a woman. We feel that the voices of real women are imperative to our mission—for that reason, we don’t limit our submissions to already published writers, or writers who make their living writing.
We want fresh, candid, authentic writing, and we love writing that is edgy and powerful. Word limit is between 900-2000 words.
Feature Article
Features on a topic of importance to women who mother—a journalistic feature with apersonal edge–best fit get born. Straight journalism isn’t get born’s style. We want the pieces to have a personal component, to weave personal experience and interview with research, to give us a balanced look at both sides, and to do so in an entertaining way. Word limit between 2500-4000 words.
Finding Spirit
Central to many of our experiences as mothers lays our continuous process of connecting to the Divine in whatever way we understand Her or Him. This very personal, often conflicted facet of our selves as spiritual beings fascinates us.Because we believe in its inherent power to shape both our selves and our mothering, “Finding Spirit” is intended to be a gathering place of sorts where mothers of all ages can share honestly about their own spiritual journeys. An essay for “Finding Spirit” will not be sectarian or proselytizing in nature, but rather be an honest treatment of one’s personal process and journey within their own spirituality. Length: 500-2000 words.
Fiction
Every day, mothers from every corner of the universe hear their children invent wild stories of adventure, imaginary friendships and missing cookies. Now it’s your turn.Turn those afternoon daydreams into something everyone can enjoy. So what if it’s about your high school boyfriend? We think that would be really…juicy, if you know what we mean. Get lost in your own imagination and start writing. The only guideline: Honesty. If your characters speak with it, so will your story.