Seeking Applications for Staff Writers

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In the past, I have published guest posts here at Catholic Mothers Online.  I want to continue to feature guest posts from time to time, but I also decided that I would love to have 4 - 8 writers that regularly contribute original posts (not previously published on their own blogs) for Catholic Mothers Online.  This would involve writing approximately once a month, unless I find closer to the eight writer mark, then it will likely be just once every other month.

What does writing for Catholic Mothers Online consist of?

• One required article/post submission per month (you may send in more, but you must meet that requirement)
• Posts are 250 – 1000 words in length (though if it makes sense to do less than 250, that is fine, and we really strive to keep under to 1000 word mark, unless it warrants being longer)
• Posts need to be well written grammatically and well formatted
• Topic ideas are pretty open (and you’ll mostly come up with them on your own) - anything that might be of interest to Catholic Mothers.  Topic ideas: faith formation, motherhood, crafts, reflections, recipes (with an eye toward a religious focus -- perhaps to correlate with feast days), household management, homeschooling, reviews of Catholic products or businesses, etc.
• You will have a byline (that you write) at that bottom of each post, as well as a bio on an author page, a 125×125 button on the sidebar, and your link in the "Links" section of the Catholic Gadget that is for CMO writers

If you are interested in writing, drop me (Angie) an email with “writer application” in the subject line. 

Please include:

• your name (first only is fine)
• blog URL
• a little bit about yourself
• any writing ideas you have
• links to two or three posts that you are particularly proud of.

Thank you!

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I Would Love to Have Your Help!

The Catholic Mothers Online community has meant so much to me over the past three years that I have been running it.  It's so amazing to me how it has grown from the night that I argued with God over the call to start it. 

Yes, I really did argue with God.  Not only did I have no idea how to start a blog roll, but I was afraid nobody would join.  He didn't let up though, and look at us now -- almost 600 wonderful Catholic blogs represented in our blog roll. 

I am trying to make my way to two different upcoming blog conferences without having to burden my family too much with the expenses.  There are a variety of ways that you can help me with this (or even just send some good wishes or prayers), please pop over to Many Little Blessings and read about the various opportunities.

Thanks so much for the way that you have helped us to grow!

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