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November/December 2023

For the past 20 years, staff members have treated writers with kindness and respect, regardless of where they were on their writing journey. At Literary Mama, we love all mama writers and want them to shine. And shine they do.

Letter From the Editor

Creative Nonfiction

  • Blood on the Track

    By Brittany Micka-Foos

  • Launching

    By Caroline Grant

  • My Chauffeur

    By Jessica Gregg

Fiction

  • After the End

    By Irene Cantizano Bescós

Literary Reflections

  • Brood X: Taking Flight from Academia

    By Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh

  • Writing for Presence

    By Vickie Barret

Poetry

  • A Mary Sequence

    By Danielle McMahon

  • In Bad Taste

    By Amy Lee Heinlen

  • Two in the Morning

    By Jane VanderVelde

  • Autism Diagnosis

    By PJ Holliday

  • Apophatic Knowledge

    By Jayna Morris

  • Nine o’clock ferry to Cushing’s, 1984

    By Susie Meserve

  • My Mother’s Advice

    By Yael Valencia Aldana

  • I notice perhaps a small dot at bedtime

    By Elizabeth Kandall

  • To my mother’s oncologist

    By Jessica Bell Rizzolo

  • Elegy

    By Nicole Desjardins Gowdy

  • [G]littering

    By Stephanie Pritchard

Profiles

  • Connection, Consent, and Care: A Conversation with Amanda Montei

    By Natalie Serianni

  • Fearless Inspiration: An Interview with Stephanie Land

    By Jennie Burke

  • I Like When It’s Messy: A Conversation with Margo Steines

    By Brianna Avenia-Tapper

  • Protecting the Patriarchy: A Mom Rage Conversation with Minna Dubin

    By Amanda Fields

  • Regret, Understanding, and Compassion: A Conversation with Christina Consolino

    By Carrie Vittitoe

  • A View from Inside the Syrian Jewish Community: A Conversation with Corie Adjmi

    By Holly Rizzuto Palker

Reviews

  • Being Mother, Being Human: A Review of Heather Lanier’s Psalms of Unknowing

    By Libby Maxey

  • Writing Her Way Through Poverty: A Review of Class

    By Shellie Kalinsky

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