A look at Birth, through your experiences. A collection of stories and poetry about birth including the emotions and connections in the experience.

Submission Guidelines: Birth Story

This book will be published under our imprint, Mostly for Mothers, please go to www.mostlyformothers.com/birthstory.html for more information.

Please include the following information in your email.

Name, address, phone number, title of work, word count, and short bio about yourself. Email this all to us with your story as an attachment.

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Birth Story (title to be chosen at a later stage) will include a collection of stories about birth from BOTH male and female perspectives. How this will be designed to suit males and females is yet to be decided, but contributions are needed from both. It will include poetry, short stories and some essays/articles. Illustrators looking to publish work are particularly encouraged to send in their submissions for review. Original illustrations can be returned on request after publication if accepted.

Submissions should reflect a positive attitude and be encouraging for new parents to be. Submissions can be in any of the below formats:

Short stories: Stories to be no longer than 5000 words.
Poems: No length limit depending on what is chosen.
Anecdotes: can be comical and of any size up to 500 words.
Comics: Short strips accepted to be used between stories and poems.
Pictures: Original photos or drawings. Both colour and black and white will be accepted for consideration, but colour pages will be limited.

Submission deadline - none currently. We are looking for the best stories and will see keep this open until we have received what we are looking for.

Details below:

There is no cost to send in submissions, as this is not a competition. All contributors included in the work will receive a free copy of the book. Some payment will be made for all contributions based on a shared royalties between authors and illustrators. Publications will only occur after signed contracts from both the artists involved and the publisher.

Authors retain copyright of their own work but must give exclusive permission for Wombat Books to use their work in the book and on the website for 12 months and then non-exclusive rights for a further time.

We also suggest you purchase a copy of Unborn Beauty to see what sort of work is included in our publications. In this way you are also supporting other Australian authors like yourself who have contributed. Purchase online or find out more...

Wombat Books is an independent publishing house seeking to publish work by Australians that acknowledges the wonder of all life, animals, plants and human. For more information about Wombat Books go to www.wombatbooks.com.au

Email submissions:
wombat@wombatbooks.com.au put the word “Birth Story” and your name in the subject header.
Post submissions:
P. O. Box 1519 Capalaba B. C. Qld 4157