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Mama Sez

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.

Stepmother: What’s In a Name?

Stepmothers are the silent voices in the mothering community. This month at Literary Mama, many of our departments feature pieces by and about stepmothers. Since representing stepmothers has always been…

Mama Sez | March 2007 | By Ericka Lutz


How to Publish a Book

New writers and students often ask me “So, how do you get a book published?” Well, the answer is: part luck, part connections, part platform, and part good writing; but…

Mama Sez | February 2007 | By Amy Hudock


New Year’s Resolutions

Clarify. Unknot. Simplify. Pack away the holiday decorations. Organize the closets. Wear pink, red, orange, plaid and stripes. Wear your pants too short, too high, too low. Wear your nicest…

Mama Sez | January 2007 | By Erin Sullivan


Happy Birthday to Literary Mama

Three years ago, LiteraryMama.com hit the web for the first time. Our main mission: connecting mama readers with mama writers. As I look at the scrapbook that commemorates that birth,…

Mama Sez | December 2006 | By Amy Hudock


The Well-Turned Column

My great-grandfather was a fireman. Not the kind who rescues people from burning buildings; rather, he worked for the railroad, shoveling coal into the firebox of a steam engine. A…

Mama Sez | October 2006 | By Marjorie Osterhout


Questions and Answers

When my son was two, he asked me whether Santa was real. He sat on our green couch with his legs straight in front of him, his orange and blue…

Mama Sez | September 2006 | By Rachel Iverson


The Falling-in-Love Factor

When I took the position of Fiction Co-Editor at Literary Mama, I figured it would be easy to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak. After all, I’d…

Mama Sez | August 2006 | By Suzanne Kamata


The Art of Imperfection

While teaching my first journal writing class for mothers, I realized we had a problem. I looked around the room at pregnant women and new mothers with journals full of…

Mama Sez | August 2006 | By Amy Hudock


Literary Reflections

You’re a reader. You’re a mother. And then gradually you realize that at naptime you race to your computer the way you used to race to the TV, anxious to…

Mama Sez | July 2006 | By Caroline Grant


Why Start a Pregnancy Journal?

I began my pregnancy journal as a series of letters to my unborn child. Cute idea. I thought I would give it to her as a gift when she grew…

Mama Sez | July 2006 | By Amy Hudock


Writing is Rewriting

At Literary Mama, we believe that great writing lies in the details and attention to language. Yes, your ideas matter, but unless the prose itself works, you’re going to bore…

Mama Sez | July 2006 | By Ericka Lutz


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