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Essays

Oak tree in winter

Even in Winter

I jog and write. Feet find road, fingers ping keys. I don’t lose weight. Essays are left in pieces. Chapters are only ideas. I had hoped that by now my resolutions would be paying off.

Essays, Literary Reflections | March/April 2021 | By Erin Lyn Bodin


beach house on stilts

Are You There, Judy? It’s Me, Kendra

I was perhaps the exact readership that Judy Blume had in mind when she wrote Are You There, God? I was a girl with very little information about sexuality.

Essays, Literary Reflections | January/February 2021 | By Kendra Stanton Lee


Cave with ocean in distance.

The Missing Piece

I still don’t remember what it is. I know the feeling though. I feel its emptiness like black tar.

Essays, Literary Reflections | January/February 2021 | By Brandi-Ann Uyemura


Bird flying through sky

Write of Passage: Telling a Daughter’s Story

Seeing my dead daughter become a publicly recognized name was unexpected in my self-focused grief and my naïve eagerness to share what a writer and human being Victoria was, and I have mixed feelings about it.

Essays, Literary Reflections | November /December 2020 | By Linda Collins


Abstract painting.

Exhaustion and Rest: Motherhood and Creativity

I have learned to value those things—the jugs and the kettles, the infant sunscreen.

Essays, Literary Reflections | November /December 2020 | By Victoria Livingstone


Let Grace Lead

My anxiety is high as I wait for my school district to decide about fall. I wait even though I have already decided my kids will not go back in person.

Essays, Literary Reflections | September/ October 2020 | By Jacey Rogel


The Good-enough Mother

It was the moment my daughter refused to collude, wanting instead to strike out on her own, no matter what the consequences.

Essays, Literary Reflections | September/ October 2020 | By Shonac Young


Patrice Puig

Bouncing off Rock Bottom

For the first time in my life, I was not looking outside of myself for validation. I wasn’t troubled by anyone else’s opinion about who I was, or what I…

Essays, Literary Reflections | May 2020 | By Deborah Serra


Anton Shuvalov

Tornado Drill Position

It took months of distance to give myself permission to shape the experience into words. To own the right to my story—the story of my ordinary heart, scarred from decades-old…

Essays, Literary Reflections | March 2020 | By Christie O. Tate


Milada Vigerova

At the Kitchen Table Where Miracles Happen

Although there is no singular defining reason why one experiences writing as meaningful or fulfilling, it surely grants us the unique chance to pry ourselves open on the page, bleed…

Essays, Literary Reflections | March 2020 | By Odeta Xheka


Natalya Letunova

Reflections of a Mother Who Writes to Heal

I cannot imagine what would have become of me or my story if I were not able to capture it in writing. My children and children’s children will be able…

Essays, Literary Reflections | January 2020 | By T. Pearl Joynz


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