Call for Stories/ Poems
on Black Infertility
(Infertility Press)
Infertility Press, a division of Emperor Publishing, is looking for stories of Black People who were, or currently are struggling with Infertility. Pays in copies of books as well as discounted books to contributors. There are no guidelines, simply email your story, poem, or encouraging words to lena@infertilitypress.com. Please be sure to include your name and contact information. Pseudonyms are okay as well, as long as we have current contact info. A letter will be mailed or emailed to you upon acceptance.PLEASE NOTE: Send your submissions as PDF's or pasted into the body of an email as attachments will not be opened.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For inquiries: lena@infertilitypress.com
For submissions: lena@infertilitypress.com
Website: http://www.infertilitypress.com/
INfertility Press
Remember, it's not how you started, it's how you finish
that matters...TM
I was 12 years old in 1978 when Louise Brown, the first “test tube baby” was born. I clearly remember being fascinated about a baby being conceived in a tube. Already just beginning to understand the concept of reproduction, this new method was too much for me to fathom. As I grew into a young adult and learned more and more about the myriad forms of alternative conception I began to philosophize that these forms were somehow abnormal. Now as a young adult, who’d grown up on Christian theology I had a tendency to see things only in black and white. “There is only one way to conceive,” I thought, and though inherently I wasn’t opposed to In-Vitro fertilization I just theorized that it wasn’t for me. The concepts of sperm samples, sperm and egg donation, and surrogacy even more muddled the waters of my growing judgments. And when you mixed all that with court battles and ethics I simply chalked it all up as one big mess and that women with sense ought to just leave it all alone and accept whatever fate God dealt them. But then I was young, did not want children, and was naïve to the fact that I might someday become one of the desperate women I had previously scorned in my judgments... For This Child We Prayed:
Living with the Secret Shame of Infertility
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