A blog carnival is a type of blog event. It is similar to a magazine, in that it is dedicated to a particular topic, and is published on a regular schedule, often weekly or monthly. Each edition of a blog carnival is in the form of a blog article that contains permalinks to other blog articles on the particular topic. (Wiki). Just like real carnivals, blog carnivals tend to move around and get hosted at different sites. Not always but sometimes. Of course, this can mean blog carnivals are hard to find, which is where I come in!
If you’re like me, you appreciate being able to participate at a carnival for the extra traffic they can bring to your site, reading material on the same topic on other blogs, thus finding new great blogs to read, and improving the overall level of conversation in the blogospehere. That and having a topic already thought out for you to write about can be a blessing on those writer block days!
Carnivals and MrLinkys are not exactly the same but definitely similar enough for the purpose of this post. I am providing links to each site’s carnival info page or homepage. It’s up to you to either find the date they do the linky/carnival, submit a post on the required form or to the required blog, or subscribe to their feed to make sure you don’t miss an announcement about any upcoming carnivals and the guidelines for participating.
Some of these blogs and blog carnivals are more crunchy than others, but the non-crunchy looking ones accept crunchy lifestyle/recipe posts, so make it work for you! It is also okay to participate in more than one carnival on the same day with the same post. Carnival etiquette just requests that you link to each hosting site in the body of your post. An example can be found here.
Here are some carnivals I like to (and/or would like to) participate in. Most of them run monthly unless otherwise noted. If you know of any other crunchy mom blogger-friendly carnivals please leave a comment and I will link to it here. If you want to get an idea of just how many blog carnivals there are (crunchiness aside) then check out this site for a jaw-dropping experience.
*Side note. I was going to link to a ton of Giveaway linky sites, but there are already so many other blogs that do that. Instead here are a couple of those sites that provide their own round-up of giveaway linkys. These may or may not be completely up to date.
Giveaway Linky Round-Ups
Mission Mommy (check out her linky post on Mondays for the list)
Christmas
Handmade Gift Carnival at The Nourishing Gourmet
The $10 Challenge at What I Learned Today
Food, Frugality and Miscallaneous
Monthly:
Cookie Carnival at Clean The Plate
Gluten-Free Recipes at Wheat Free Meat Free
Monday:
$5 Dinner Challenge at $5 Dinners
Menu Plan Monday at Organizing Junkie
Weekly Shopping Trip (budget shopping) at Grocery Cart Challenge
Tuesday:
Balancing Beauty and Bedlam’s Tasty Tuesday
Talk To Me Tuesday at Tip Junkie
Tempt My Tummy Tuesday at Blessed With Grace
Wednesday:
Works for Me Wednesday at We Are That Family
Real Food Wednesdays at Kitchen Kop
Thursday:
The Grocery Cart Challenge Recipe Swap
The Nourishing Gourmet’s Pennywise Platters Carnival
Nourishing Day’s Food Roots
Ultimate Recipe Swap at Life As Mom
Friday:
Food Renegade’s Fight Back Friday
Ann Kroeker’s Food on Friday
Designs by Gollum’s Foodie Friday
Momtrend’s Friday Feasts
Finding Freedom Friday at Cents to Get Debt Free
Food Waste Friday at The Frugal Girl
Frugal Friday at Life As Mom
Natural on a Budget’s Foodie Friday
Birth
Healthy Birth Carnival at Science and Sensibility
Breastfeeding
Subscribe to Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog or Blacktating to receive monthly announcements.
Feminist
Feminist Parenting Carnival at Mothers For Women’s Lib
Green Moms
Homeschooling
Parenting
Non-Punitive Discipline Carnival
Do you know of any other crunchy mama blogger-friendly carnivals? Let me know so I can link them up! Oh yeah, and don’t forget to bookmark this post for future reference. Stumbles appreciated too!
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Tags: birth, blog carnival, Breastfeeding Carnival, crunchy mamas, feminism, feminist parenting, frugality, green moms, homeschooling, Vegetarian Recipes
There is also the non-punitive discipline carnival
http://blogcarnival.com/bc/cprof_7962.html
Annie @ PhD in Parenting´s last blog ..Wordless Wednesday: Babywearing Babies
I started one! It is the Second Tuesday Parenting Carnival – post on anything, as long as it relates to parenting
Yesterday was the first installment.
Thank you so much for this list – it will be bookmarked
Dionna´s last blog ..Ho Ho Ho, How Do You Santa?
Thanks! These are great. I’m always looking for new reading material.
Casey´s last blog ..Timely Blog Posts
Thanks Annie and Dionna!
[...] at Breastfeeding Moms Unite put together a great list of blog carnivals that covers topics like breastfeeding, real food/whole foods, attachment parenting, [...]
Hey there – will you update the second Tuesday carnival to reflect that it is now the “Carnival of Natural Parenting”? Here is a permanent link with details: http://codenamemama.com/carniv.....parenting/
Thank you!
Dionna´s last blog ..What Breastmilk Tastes Like, Part 3
How about the Attachment Parenting Carnival at API Speaks?
http://attachmentparenting.org.....-schedule/
Great list!
Paige´s last blog ..It’s All About Empathy: Nurturing a Toddler’s Compassion Potential
@Paige – I meant to add that when it came up recently but I fogot. Thank you!