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Birthing the Mother Writer

Retired Columns

From “Life in the Sandwich” to “Special Needs Mama” to “Zen and the Art of Child Maintenance”—they’re all here for you to explore.

Editor Response to Renewal: Beginning a New Season in the Mother Writer Life

In last month’s “Birthing the Mother Writer Column” Cassie Premo Steele announced that she will be taking a five-month break from her column, as she prepares for a new season…

Birthing the Mother Writer | April 2014 | By Cassie Premo Steele


Renewal: Beginning a New Season in the Mother Writer Life

When I started this column, my stepdaughter was still in college and my daughter was a still slightly chubby nine-year-old. Now the stepdaughter is in law school and my daughter…

Birthing the Mother Writer | March 2014 | By Cassie Premo Steele


Reader Response to Fallow: Remembering that Before Birth Comes the Cave

Last month’s “Birthing the Mother Writer” column asked readers to submit a creative nonfiction piece that illustrates the resistance to and need for rest as a mother writer. The following…

Birthing the Mother Writer | March 2014 | By Cassie Premo Steele


Fallow: Remembering that Before Birth Comes the Cave

This month Cassie Premo Steele invites you to submit a creative nonfiction piece of 800-1200 words that illustrates your resistance to and need for rest as a mother writer.

Birthing the Mother Writer | January 2014 | By Cassie Premo Steele


Reader Response to Pruning: Centering Your Writing Around Its Roots

Last month’s “Birthing the Mother Writer” column asked readers to submit poems in the tradition of Dickinson, Rich, Rukeyser, and Olds whose poetry prunes away the hopes and fantasies of…

Birthing the Mother Writer | December 2013 | By Cassie Premo Steele


Pruning: Centering Your Writing Around Its Roots

In the tradition of the poetry of Dickinson, Rich, Rukeyser, and Olds, Cassie Premo Steele invites you to submit a poem that prunes away the hopes and fantasy and false…

Birthing the Mother Writer | November 2013 | By Cassie Premo Steele


Reader Response to Gathering in the Harvest of Girls: On Mothering, Desire, and Writing

Last month’s column explored the theme of claiming your voice and your desire as a mother and as a writer. In this creative non-fiction piece, Kezia Willingham discusses the ways…

Birthing the Mother Writer | October 2013 | By Cassie Premo Steele


Gathering in the Harvest of Girls: On Mothering, Desire, and Writing

A Bieber concert is as much for the moms as the girls. For one night, our daughters’ eye rolling and self-doubt turn into screaming and exhilaration. We are reminded of…

Birthing the Mother Writer | September 2013 | By Cassie Premo Steele


Reader Response to Fruiting: What Happens After You Become a Published Writer

Last month’s column focused on how publication can change us as writers and mothers and asked readers to submit essays reflecting on these changes. In this essay, writer Em Climaco…

Birthing the Mother Writer | August 2013 | By Cassie Premo Steele


Fruiting: What Happens After You Become a Published Writer (A Guide for When the Fruits of Your Labor Start Coming In)

In the tradition of Audre Lorde and Anne Lamott’s truth-telling, Cassie Premo Steele invites you to submit a creative non-fiction piece of 800-1200 words on the theme of how you…

Birthing the Mother Writer | July 2013 | By Cassie Premo Steele


Reader Response to Planting: Sowing the Seeds of the Self in One’s Own Writing Room

Last month’s column invited readers to submit a short story or creative non-fiction piece on the theme of claiming one’s own space as a mother writer. In this essay a…

Birthing the Mother Writer | May 2013 | By Cassie Premo Steele


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