Hi Teresa, this is Susan Fisher from Athens. I wanted
to give you the "heads up" about this project and
encourage you and your clients to submit
contributions.... Our website is under construction
and we will pay for photos of women laboring and
birthing in active positions. We would especially like
photos of women in their own clothing in a hospital
setting and pics of doulas in action. If you or anyone
you know is
interested in participating, you can email me back
directly. Hope you are doing well. I believe we have
several clients in common right now so I hope to see
you soon!
Susan

>Call for Submissions: Alternative Birth Anthology,
vol. 1

The goal of this project is to showcase individual
voices in the alternative birth movement, providing a
forum for parents, doulas, midwives, childbirth
educators, and activists who are part of the national
grassroots effort to promote holistic, woman-centered
pregnancy and childbirth practices in the United
States.

Submissions:
Please submit material that you feel should be
included in this volume. Possibilities include birth
stories, photographs, articles, commentaries, book
reviews, interviews with activists in the field,
artwork,
poetry, home remedies, etc.

Writers’ Guidelines:
We will consider birth stories, articles, editorials,
book reviews, interviews, natural remedies for
pregnancy/birth and other relevant material. Topics
should focus on alternatives to the prevailing
medicalized system of birth in the United States. We
would particularly like to hear from women who have
been able to birth on their own terms within the
medical system, or who have tried and failed.
Experiences with doulas/birth plans, midwives, and
other attempts to have a satisfying birth
within the system are particularly relevant. We want
to include articles on parient’s rights, VBAC bans,
informed consent and refusal. We would also like to
hear from homebirth moms, midwives, and advocates of
unassisted birth about their experiences of rejecting
the system altogether.

Please do not submit items that you have published
elsewhere, unless we can get permission for a reprint
from the original publication. For birth stories,
including photographs will increase the chance that
your story will be chosen for publication. Please
include a brief biographical sketch, your name,
address, phone number, and email address on the
first page of your manuscript as well as your name and
the page number on subsequent pages.

Photographers’ Guidelines:
We are interested in photos of pregnant women,
particularly labor and birth photos of women in active
labor/birth positions, photos of doulas/midwives at
work, prenatal yoga, photos of women participating in
birth rallies/protests, breastfeeding, etc. Permission
must be granted by the individuals appearing in the
photo for its inclusion in the book. $500.00 will be
paid for the photograph chosen for the cover of volume
1. You may send us photocopies, reprints, digital
photos, or low-resolution scans for submission, but we
will request the original if your photo is
chosen for publication.

submit it to :sfishercnm@...