MER - Mom Egg Review
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Literary magazine on motherhood, in print, and online at merliterary.com.
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So grateful for this thoughtful review of MY LITTLE BOOK OF DOMESTIC ANXIETIES @merliterary.bsky.social, including an Anne Sexton reference.
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My Little Book of Domestic Anxieties by Elizabeth Sylvia - MER - Mom Egg Review
Review by Ruth Hoberman Elizabeth’s Sylvia’s new book presents itself modestly: My Little Book of Domestic Anxieties contains only twenty-four poems, and their tone (like the title) is low-key. But ...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So grateful for this thoughtful review of MY LITTLE BOOK OF DOMESTIC ANXIETIES @merliterary.bsky.social, including an Anne Sexton reference.
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We are honored to present some of the work that was read that night. For more, see you in Baltimore!
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Issues 110 & 111 - Painted Bride Quarterly
The Sept 2025 double issue packs in a ton of amazing poetry. Issue 110 focuses on recent work to PBQ; Issue 111 is a special issue.
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October 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We are honored to present some of the work that was read that night. For more, see you in Baltimore!
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"Two pages into The Fun Times Brigade, author Lindsay Zier-Vogel’s follow-up to her acclaimed novel Letters to Amelia, and I am fully transported to my own early days of mothering an inconsolable, colicky newborn." Read Jane Ward's review for @merliterary.bsky.social. merliterary.com/2025/06/11/t...
The Fun Times Brigade by Lindsay Zier-Vogel - MER - Mom Egg Review
Review by Jane Ward “It’s pitch black and Alice won’t stop screaming.” (4) Two pages into The Fun Times Brigade, author Lindsay Zier-Vogel’s follow-up to her acclaimed novel Letters to Amelia, and I...
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June 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"Two pages into The Fun Times Brigade, author Lindsay Zier-Vogel’s follow-up to her acclaimed novel Letters to Amelia, and I am fully transported to my own early days of mothering an inconsolable, colicky newborn." Read Jane Ward's review for @merliterary.bsky.social. merliterary.com/2025/06/11/t...
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Clean, efficient and a little bit devastating - that's new #microfiction from @marjorietesser.bsky.social in the #Bully issue, out now.
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Baby by Marjorie Tesser | The Woolf
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May 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Clean, efficient and a little bit devastating - that's new #microfiction from @marjorietesser.bsky.social in the #Bully issue, out now.
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Without further ado, Issue 8 is now live!
The #Bully issue features thought-provoking words from 14 incredible writers. Stay tuned for highlights or have a look yourself - it's a corker #flashfiction #microfiction #creativenonfiction #prosepoetry #shortstories
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The #Bully issue features thought-provoking words from 14 incredible writers. Stay tuned for highlights or have a look yourself - it's a corker #flashfiction #microfiction #creativenonfiction #prosepoetry #shortstories
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The Woolf
Sometimes we howl.
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May 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Without further ado, Issue 8 is now live!
The #Bully issue features thought-provoking words from 14 incredible writers. Stay tuned for highlights or have a look yourself - it's a corker #flashfiction #microfiction #creativenonfiction #prosepoetry #shortstories
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The #Bully issue features thought-provoking words from 14 incredible writers. Stay tuned for highlights or have a look yourself - it's a corker #flashfiction #microfiction #creativenonfiction #prosepoetry #shortstories
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Thrilled and honoured that “After the Kiss” (2024) is featured on the cover of this year’s MER literary journal print issue!
You can check out the beautifully written work on motherhood, literature, & art in MER 23 here: merliterary.com/2025/03/31/m...
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#motherhood #klimt
You can check out the beautifully written work on motherhood, literature, & art in MER 23 here: merliterary.com/2025/03/31/m...
@merliterary.bsky.social
#motherhood #klimt
May 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Thrilled and honoured that “After the Kiss” (2024) is featured on the cover of this year’s MER literary journal print issue!
You can check out the beautifully written work on motherhood, literature, & art in MER 23 here: merliterary.com/2025/03/31/m...
@merliterary.bsky.social
#motherhood #klimt
You can check out the beautifully written work on motherhood, literature, & art in MER 23 here: merliterary.com/2025/03/31/m...
@merliterary.bsky.social
#motherhood #klimt
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"In All This Can Be True, Jen Michalski offers a poignant story about this transformational power of love—even when that love is not destined to be the forever kind."
A lovely review of @socalwritergirl.bsky.social forthcoming novel in @merliterary.bsky.social
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A lovely review of @socalwritergirl.bsky.social forthcoming novel in @merliterary.bsky.social
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All This Can Be True by Jen Michalski - MER - Mom Egg Review
Review by Jane Ward Jen Michalski, award-winning author of 2021’s You’ll Be Fine, returns in June with All This Can Be True. Using alternating narratives, Michalski first explores the complex inte...
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May 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"In All This Can Be True, Jen Michalski offers a poignant story about this transformational power of love—even when that love is not destined to be the forever kind."
A lovely review of @socalwritergirl.bsky.social forthcoming novel in @merliterary.bsky.social
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A lovely review of @socalwritergirl.bsky.social forthcoming novel in @merliterary.bsky.social
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So many beautiful moments at AWP—The amazing poets and writers who read at our two off site events, Off site.On purpose. with our colleagues from @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @swwim.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social and @cultivatingvoiceslive
March 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
So many beautiful moments at AWP—The amazing poets and writers who read at our two off site events, Off site.On purpose. with our colleagues from @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @swwim.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social and @cultivatingvoiceslive
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This was an AMAZING event. If they pull together this “Off Site/ On Purpose” group reading again next year, seek it out! Powerful poems and an exceptionally warm, inclusive vibe @merliterary.bsky.social @swwim.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social
Photos from our reading, with thanks to the editors at SWWIM, Whale Road Review, Perugia Press, Mom Egg Review & Cultivating Voices for sponsoring 🔥🔥🔥
March 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
This was an AMAZING event. If they pull together this “Off Site/ On Purpose” group reading again next year, seek it out! Powerful poems and an exceptionally warm, inclusive vibe @merliterary.bsky.social @swwim.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social
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Will you be at AWP in Los Angeles?? Come find me at my book signing @univnebpress.bsky.social or the offsite reading hosted by @merliterary.bsky.social and @wtawpress.bsky.social and @bettybooks.bsky.social Happy to arrange for a review copy--just ask!
March 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Will you be at AWP in Los Angeles?? Come find me at my book signing @univnebpress.bsky.social or the offsite reading hosted by @merliterary.bsky.social and @wtawpress.bsky.social and @bettybooks.bsky.social Happy to arrange for a review copy--just ask!
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We appreciate @jennmartelli.bsky.social, co-poetry editor at @merliterary.bsky.social, for joining us for a Brown Bag Lit ‘Fake AWP’ panel!
Learn more about MER here: merliterary.com
and Jennifer here: www.jennmartelli.com
Learn more about MER here: merliterary.com
and Jennifer here: www.jennmartelli.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
We appreciate @jennmartelli.bsky.social, co-poetry editor at @merliterary.bsky.social, for joining us for a Brown Bag Lit ‘Fake AWP’ panel!
Learn more about MER here: merliterary.com
and Jennifer here: www.jennmartelli.com
Learn more about MER here: merliterary.com
and Jennifer here: www.jennmartelli.com
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Betty's AWP events!
📍 Panel: The Matrilineal Saga – March 27, 10:35 AM, with @pegalfordpursell.bsky.social & @ilzeduarte.bsky.social
📍 Book Signing: TAKE ME WITH YOU NEXT TIME by @janishubschman.bsky.social – March 27, Noon
📍 Reading: Shoo Shoo Baby — March 28, 5:30 PM with @merliterary.bsky.social
📍 Panel: The Matrilineal Saga – March 27, 10:35 AM, with @pegalfordpursell.bsky.social & @ilzeduarte.bsky.social
📍 Book Signing: TAKE ME WITH YOU NEXT TIME by @janishubschman.bsky.social – March 27, Noon
📍 Reading: Shoo Shoo Baby — March 28, 5:30 PM with @merliterary.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Betty's AWP events!
📍 Panel: The Matrilineal Saga – March 27, 10:35 AM, with @pegalfordpursell.bsky.social & @ilzeduarte.bsky.social
📍 Book Signing: TAKE ME WITH YOU NEXT TIME by @janishubschman.bsky.social – March 27, Noon
📍 Reading: Shoo Shoo Baby — March 28, 5:30 PM with @merliterary.bsky.social
📍 Panel: The Matrilineal Saga – March 27, 10:35 AM, with @pegalfordpursell.bsky.social & @ilzeduarte.bsky.social
📍 Book Signing: TAKE ME WITH YOU NEXT TIME by @janishubschman.bsky.social – March 27, Noon
📍 Reading: Shoo Shoo Baby — March 28, 5:30 PM with @merliterary.bsky.social
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Delighted to have a poem up in the single mothering folio @merliterary.bsky.social today!
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Adrie Rose - Climate Strike - MER - Mom Egg Review
Adrie Rose Climate Strike I organize the strike and I burn dinner. I organize the strike and I carry our clothes two blocks to the laundromat. The news says it’s already too late and I organize the ...
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March 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Delighted to have a poem up in the single mothering folio @merliterary.bsky.social today!
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With deep gratitude to the editors at MER (Mom Egg Review), @merliterary.bsky.social I am thrilled and honored that my poem "Memo to the Absent" has found a home in the "Mothering Alone"poetry folio. merliterary.com/2025/03/13/m...
MOTHERING ALONE - MER - Mom Egg Review
Mothering Along – MER Online Poetry Folio Curated by Cindy Veach and Jennifer Martelli In her poem, “Memo to the Absent,” Wendy Scher presents the Sabbath table set for two: the mother and the daugh...
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March 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
With deep gratitude to the editors at MER (Mom Egg Review), @merliterary.bsky.social I am thrilled and honored that my poem "Memo to the Absent" has found a home in the "Mothering Alone"poetry folio. merliterary.com/2025/03/13/m...
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Me at #AWP25!
3/27, 10:35-11:50 am, “Understories & Mycocosms” Rm 403A, L2
3/27, 7-9 pm, Reading w/ @merliterary.bsky.social @ MG Studio, 1319 W. 11th St
3/28, 3-3:30 pm, Signing w/ @tupelopress.bsky.social Booth 604
3/28, 7-9 pm, Tupelo Reading @ Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Blvd
3/27, 10:35-11:50 am, “Understories & Mycocosms” Rm 403A, L2
3/27, 7-9 pm, Reading w/ @merliterary.bsky.social @ MG Studio, 1319 W. 11th St
3/28, 3-3:30 pm, Signing w/ @tupelopress.bsky.social Booth 604
3/28, 7-9 pm, Tupelo Reading @ Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Blvd
March 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Me at #AWP25!
3/27, 10:35-11:50 am, “Understories & Mycocosms” Rm 403A, L2
3/27, 7-9 pm, Reading w/ @merliterary.bsky.social @ MG Studio, 1319 W. 11th St
3/28, 3-3:30 pm, Signing w/ @tupelopress.bsky.social Booth 604
3/28, 7-9 pm, Tupelo Reading @ Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Blvd
3/27, 10:35-11:50 am, “Understories & Mycocosms” Rm 403A, L2
3/27, 7-9 pm, Reading w/ @merliterary.bsky.social @ MG Studio, 1319 W. 11th St
3/28, 3-3:30 pm, Signing w/ @tupelopress.bsky.social Booth 604
3/28, 7-9 pm, Tupelo Reading @ Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Blvd
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Two weeks from tonight! We’re thrilled to be part of a collaborative offsite at #AWP25 in L.A. on 3/27. Join us! Free admission / Cash bar. @swwim.bsky.social @merliterary.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social @jenjblackburn.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Two weeks from tonight! We’re thrilled to be part of a collaborative offsite at #AWP25 in L.A. on 3/27. Join us! Free admission / Cash bar. @swwim.bsky.social @merliterary.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social @jenjblackburn.bsky.social
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www.versedaily.org/2025/isawagi... A Feature in Verse Daily. @versedaily.bsky.social "I Saw a Girl" first appeared in @merliterary.bsky.social
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March 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
www.versedaily.org/2025/isawagi... A Feature in Verse Daily. @versedaily.bsky.social "I Saw a Girl" first appeared in @merliterary.bsky.social
MER Wrapped!!! Looking forward, and backward in our latest newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/merliter...
Looking Forward, Looking Back with MER!
MER 2024 WRAPPED! Plus New Year's News and Wishes!
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December 30, 2024 at 12:07 PM
MER Wrapped!!! Looking forward, and backward in our latest newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/merliter...
Lore Segal’s flash fiction online at merliterary.com.
October 7, 2023 at 12:58 AM
Lore Segal’s flash fiction online at merliterary.com.
Congratulations to Lore Segal on the launch of “Ladies’ Lunch” (Melville House).
October 7, 2023 at 12:56 AM
Congratulations to Lore Segal on the launch of “Ladies’ Lunch” (Melville House).
Hi bluesky! Glad to be here!
September 12, 2023 at 3:07 PM
Hi bluesky! Glad to be here!