Published Writers

E.B. Axelrod, Lolly (Blue Lake Review), Break Fast (Split Lip Magazine), Strangers (East of the Web)

Elizabeth Burk, What We Carry With Us (Pithead Chapel)

Ruth Carmel, My Big Fat Orthodox Thanksgiving (Alimentum); Why I Write About My Family (TalkingWriting.com); Misdirection (TalkingWriting.com); Too Much Information (Ducts.org); Writing Actually is Hard Work, Which is Fine (Brevity); You are the Hero of This Tale (Literary Mama)

Hilda Chazanovitz, The Loving Complex Relationship I Had With My Mother, a Holocaust Survivor, The Foward), Bringing Passover back to the town where the Nazis killed our relatives (The Forward), The Understanding(The Moth)

Jennifer Dorr, Nice Stuff (Herstry)

Susan Berger Ellman, The Royalty of Brooklyn (HerStry)

Elizabeth Emrey, Alumni Love Stories (USFCA), Mother Knows Best (2nd prize winner, The Girlfriend’s 2023 Mother’s Day Contest)

Kristen Fealy, Janice Has a Bad Sex Life; I am a Very Bad Person; Things I Say to My Children, And the Heavens Opened (The East Hampton Star)

Valerie Feigen, In Memoriam, My Breasts (HerStry)

Arthur Flug, Riding the QM6 (The New York Times)

Michelle Friedman, A Last Act of Intimate Kindness (The New York Times)

Ilene S. Goldman, My Father’s Tallit (Reform Judaism), Gray Hairs and Growing Pains (Grande Dame Literary), Caution: Memories in the Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear (HerStry)

Adele Aron Greenspun, The Uses of Sorrow (Grande Dame Literary), The Uses of Sorrow (Snapdragon Journal), But! I Didn’t Hear You (Grande Dame Literary), Regular A (Herstry), The Best Mother’s Day Ever (Flora Fiction)

Lisa S. Greene, Where’s My Knife? (Eat, Darling, Eat) Purim Costume Redux (Jewish Chicago)

Grania Gurievitch, The Body Departs, Alte (Jewish Current)

Sarah Gundle, Therapeutic Love (Square Wheel Press), Wishbone: An Angry Teenager, a Pandemic and How a Buy Nothing Facebook Group Helped Us Write a New Story (Visible), What I Gained From an Awkard Failed Marriage Proposal (Scary Mommy), Sharon Was My First Patient and I’m Heartbroken That She’s Gone (Scary Mommy), A Stranger’s Gift to Me in the Phoenix Airport (Motherwell,) Mahjong Saved My Life (The Forward)

Judith Katz performed her story, "The Seeker," through Generation Women at Caveat Theater

Melanie Hoopes wrote and directed the play, Six Feet, at River Arts

Jeff Lawenda, A Fish Tale (Dillydoun Review); Pathways; White Hat Black Hat

Kate Levin, My Favorite Place (The Library Love Letter); The Library Love Letter Presents; Food Fight (Heart Balm); Life Lessons (Marathon Lit Review)

Joan Lipton, Constructing Trauma’s Narrative in the Later Years: Aging and the Life Review (Contemporary Psychoanalysis)

Elissa Caterfino Mandel, A Wave from the Window (The Forward); Our Passover: Why this night is different from all others (The Forward); How the Pandemic Turned Me Into Something I’m Not (Disrupt Aging); My Catholic Man Wanted Me to Marry a Jewish Man When He Died, (Kveller), Two Jewish Weddings and an Identity Crisis (Kveller), Bulls and Bears (Pennsylvania Gazette)

Kahdeidra Monet Martin, Forever Three (Transition)

Randi Mazzella, Rewriting Middle Age (Disrupt Aging); Why Girls’ Trips Will Make You a Better Mom (The Girlfriend); To the Woman Who Marries My Son: I'm Sorry and You're Welcome (The Fine Line); The Music of My Youth Takes Me Back (The Fine Line); Rediscovering Shabbat (Tablet Magazine), The Six Benefits of Lemons That May Surprise You; About Face: Five Products Your Skin Needs Now; Ten Podcasts Women Should Tune Into Now; Should You Worry If You Have an Old Fashioned Marriage?; Do You Need an Air Fryer? (The Girlfriend), Saying Goodbye to My Last Kid as He Heads Off to College (The Girlfriend)

Melissa Mizel, Just Too Bad (Medium), What to Wear to Become a Jewish Mother-in-Law? (The Forward)

Ileana Nachescu, The Traveling Tomato (Ducts.org)

Debbie Nathan, We’ll Be Here All Night  (This American Life)

Maxine Paul performed a piece about serial killers Artie Shawcross and David Berkowitz at the Moth

Judith Ruskay Rabinor PhD, The Girl in the Red Boots: Making Peace with My Mother (SheWrites Press), Mother Knows Best (The Girlfriend’s 2023 Mother’s Day Contest)

Beth Raymer, Lay the Favorite: A Memoir of Gambling (also made into a motion picture), Fireworks Every Night (novel, Random House)

Janet Rich, Angels All Around, Chicken Soup for the Soul

Leslie Dannin Rosenthal, That Cake (Grande Dame Literary), This Daily Practice Became an Unexpected Comfort During Coronavirus (Kveller), That Time My Jewish Grandma Befriended Cassius Clay in Miami (Kveller), Snack Plate (Grande Dame Literary)

Karen Satran, Nights (The Yale Review), The Scent of Lime Trees (The New Yorker)

Holly Shaw, COVID Sheds Light on the Painful Sting of Poverty (NJ.com), Big Lessons from Montclair Little League (Montclair Local)

Sharon Silver, When Covering Up Becomes Trendy (Tablet Magazine)

Lisa Tognola, Feeling Naked and Exposed on Yom Kippur (Salon.com), Why I Let My Daughter Get a Nose Job (Kveller). As Long As It’s Perfect (novel, SheWrites Press)

Barbara Trommer A Widow’s Bed (Ducts.org), Kitchen Ballet (Still Point Arts Quarterly)

Jo Varnish, My Son and I Visited a Medium, and She Gave Us a Gift We Never Saw Coming (Huffington Post); The Benefits of a DIY Writing Retreat (Brevity); Old Teachers Never Die (Anti Heroin Chic), Sanctuary (OkayDonkeyMag.com), Raw Meat (X-R-A-Y.com), Dog (Ellipsiszine.com), Unblessed (Manquemagazine.com), Candling (The Coachella Review),  The Opposite of a Worm (Rejection Letters), Halloween Like No Other (The Girlfriend). A Halloween Like No Other (The Girlfriend), Georgina Willis (The Forge). Jo’s story, Dog, was nominated by Ellipsiszine for a Pushcart Prize.

Laura Weiss, Down and Out City (Bright Flash Literary Review), Healthy Smiles is the Place to Go (Five on the Fifth)

Nora Wong,  Loving My Son, After His Death (The New York Times)

Lucinda Ziesing, What You Love May Not Last But It’s Worth Fighting for Anyway. (Penobscot Bay Pilot)