The Giving

Check out "The Giving," on DVD - it is the number one selling adoption video on Amazon.com. It "chronicles the difficult journeys of six women from the time they learn of their pregnancy to the signing of adoption papers . . . this film shatters the myth of the careless, abandoning birthmother, and reveals, once again that courage and selflessness are found in the most unassuming places."

Summer 2009 Adoption Monologues Contest

The Adoption Monologues is holding its first summer writing contest. Submit your personal experiences with adoption in the form of essays, poetry or - you guessed it - monologues. The winner's piece will be published on the AM blog and, when it's up and running, on the AM website. The deadline for submissions is August 15th, 2009. We will announce a winner on August 31st, 2009. Please submit your writing to adoptionmonologue@gmail.com. Please inform us if you would like to remain anonymous. We look forward to reading your work. Good luck!

WELCOME!

The Adoption Monologues is a nonprofit organization that seeks personal writing from all those affected by adoption: adopted children and parents, birth parents, siblings, grandparents, friends and so on. We are looking for monologues more than personal narratvies, i.e. A monologue is an extended, uninterrupted speech or poem by a single person. The person may be speaking his or her thoughts aloud or directly addressing other persons, e.g. an audience, a character, reader, or inatimate object. We are collecting personal experiences to be read publicly and hope to publish them in book form. Please submit your work to: adoptionmonologue@gmail.com