Literary Reflections

Three and four pounds when they were born at thirty weeks gestation, their own struggle to survive, each time I recall it, takes my breath away. Perhaps the journey that…

I could construct my own little world, but it could never totally camouflage the chaos lurking underneath.

In this month’s Essential Reading, we’re eating the literary icing on the cake and highlighting some of our favorite guilty pleasures.

At Literary Mama, we are spending November breaking down the genre stigma with our personal favorites.

I have come half-addled to a precious week of writing. It is mid-winter and the holiday season has been rough and ragged with a young adult son home for the…

My son is asleep in bed, my husband is overseas for work, and I‘m taking advantage of the free evening to tidy our walk-in storage cupboard. I’m doing well. I‘ve…

Every October Literary Mama focuses on the theme of desiring motherhood, so we have collected a plethora of books highlighting multiple aspects of motherhood.

[T]here is so much richness, variety, and messiness that new mothers stand to gain, not only in altered writing habits, but also in observing the language acquisition and the speech…

Free writing is like singing a line. Waiting for what works, what makes my insides churn, and figuring out what’s happening, what it means, how to do it again and…

My goal is to teach them to enjoy and appreciate the flow that comes when you focus completely on something, to nurture a love of time spent with oneself in…

In this month’s Essential Reading we are hitting the books and highlighting some of our favorite go-to titles on the craft of writing. We’re suggesting the books we love to…