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MER - Mom Egg Review presents literary work and art on motherhood and women's lives. MER supports and celebrates mother writers and artists through print and online publications, performances, workshops, and events. Enjoy our annual print issue and read more at MERliterary.com. Contributors: Deborah Bacharach, Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Jennifer Barber, Carrie Bennett, Margo Berdeshevsky, Lisa Creech Bledsoe, Mary Bonina, Mary Lou Buschi, Kevin Carey, Robert Carr, M.P. Carver, Sofia Chapman, Eileen Cleary, Ashley W. Cundiff, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Ariane Dreyfus, Merridawn Duckler, Suzanne Edison, Jennifer R. Edwards, Kelley Engelbrecht, Natalie Shaw Evjen, Lupe Eyde-Tucker, Sandra Fees, Jessica Femiani, Brandel France de Bravo, Elizabeth Cranford Garcia, Violeta Garcia-Mendoza, Marie Gauthier, Jennifer Georgescu, Joan Kwon Glass, Laura Goldin, Robin Gow, Pat Hale, Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick, Marie Harris, Katie Hartsock, Sarah Herrington, Katelynn Hibbard, Melissa Joplin Higley, Rae Hoffman Jager, Crystal Karlberg, Tina Kelley, Claire Keyes, Debbie Koenig, Andrea Krause, Anaïs La Rocca, Danielle Lemay, Barbara Lock, Tarisa A.M. Matsumoto, Dw McKinney, Livia Meneghin, Chloe Yelena Miller, Gloria Monaghan, Abby E. Murray, Loretta Oleck, Dayna Patterson, Anne Elezabeth Pluto, Jennifer Pons, Kyle Potvin, Kimberly Ann Priest, Jessica Purdy, Kimberly Ramos, Glenis Redmond, Jeff Rivers, Tessa Ellison Rossi, Karen Elizabeth Sharpe, Martha Silano, Dorsía Smith Silva, Anne Starling, Meghan Sterling, Darlene Taylor, Elaine Terranova, Pramila Venkateswaran, Lauren Walke, Annelies Zijderveld

Welcome to Mom Egg Review Vol. 14-the Change issue! Change can be a lightning bolt, a bud's unfurling, or the inexorable melt of ice caps. A body swells with pregnancy, bends with illness, shrinks with age; a couple evolves or severs; a child slowly cycles through a myriad of incarnations. Or tornado, bomb, gunshot. Change is acute and cyclical, rhythmic and cataclysmic, personal and political, abstract and physical, natural and un-, absolute and incremental, often too gradual or too precipitous. Change is not just one-directional flow, something that happens to us-we can affect its course, embrace, finesse, challenge, or stem it. Mothers often serve as society's first responders, interlocutors of change for children and often others. There is also change that we make. Mothers effect change by example and by action, by our works-life and art. The works in this issue look unblinkingly at change; they investigate, interrogate, and implement change, local and global. Enjoy the frank, thoughtful, and powerful poems and stories in this issue. May they inspire you to create the good changes needed in your world.

Mom Egg Review is a literary journal about motherhood. MER is about being a mother in its many varieties; it is also about being a daughter, worker, partner, artist, a member of cultures and communities; MER explores how these identities can collide and coexist. We publish work with ideas, exciting use of language, and strong creative energy. Our writers consider the body, work, family and societal roles, sex, local and global crises, and making art. The stories and poems-intelligent, irreverent, lyrical, funny, sharp-cast light on the multifaceted life experience of motherhood, and out from it.

This issue of Mom Egg Review looks at PLAY and WORK through the lens of motherhood. Celebrated and emerging literary writers explore the following themes: The work of mothering, of creating art, of scholarship. Office work, housework, school work, political work, physical labor. Life's work. Work that's respected and work that's denigrated. Jobs that lift you up and jobs that suck your soul. Our mothers' and fathers' work. The work of nurture. Work for pay, work for love, work for duty. Working on ourselves and working on our kids or on relationships. Working out. Working it out. And of course, we're interested in the interplay between work and play. And also--How do mothers play: with children, with partners, with friends, on their own? How do children play at various stages? Is it irresponsible to play in a damaged world-or necessity? What types of play nourish you, and which are playing with fire? Is play as enjoyable as it's cracked up to be? Is your work your play? Read MER 16 for the insights of fine literary writing on a mother's world of work and play.

Mom Egg Review is an annual collection of literary writing about diverse experiences of motherhood.