Not The Way You Expect: A Collection of Words on Motherhood

Nineteen writers share poems, prose, and short stories capturing the wonderful, the painful, and everything between.

It's nearly impossible to feel nothing about motherhood.

Each of us comes from a mother, in fact. We adore them, we resent them, we miss them, we are them.

This book of poems, prose, and short stories is a collection of words on all shades of motherhood. The wonderful, the painful, and everything between. Motherhood isn't a monolith, after all.

And it's almost never what you expect.

Contributors:

Beth Ables

Emily Barnett

Mandy Blankenship

Nancy Bopp

Nicole Bougie

Katie Ellen Bowers

Adrienne Burris

Nicole Fernandes

Alex George

Shannon Greene

Lindsey DeLoach Jones

Lorna Mills

Brandon Seabrook Nelson

Courtney Paraham

Stephen Phillips

Moe Rice

Bethany Stedman

Katie Stewart

Angie Toole Thompson