Celebrating Ten Years of Literary Mama: Amy Hudock
October 2013 marks Literary Mama’s ten year anniversary! On Wednesdays for the next few months we’ll celebrate!
Amy Hudock
In Memory of Henry Granju
One of our Literary Mamas has lost her son. Katie Granju, a former editor for Literary Mama, watched her 18-year-old son, Henry, die in intensive care Monday. Katie has faced the trauma with characteristic transparency – revealing what others might want to hide. Despite knowing the criticism she would face, she went public with the […]
Southern, Single and a Mother
Andy Garcia is the perfect man for me. He is charming, handsome, intelligent, sexy as all hell, and completely unavailable. Though I once saw him walk past as I sat drinking coffee in Café Trieste in San Francisco, I know that is the closest he will ever get to me. And I have to admit, […]
“O” Magazine Publishes Article “No, Daddy, No”
If a man gets caught molesting a child down the street, he’ll get jail time. If a father or step-father gets caught molesting a child living in his own house, he’ll get probation and therapy. This month, “O” Magazine takes on laws and family court systems that abuse children by failing to protect them from […]
Please resubmit applications
The email we provided for applications for Literary Mama positions was not working properly, and we are afraid we have missed some of your applications. If you would like to work for LM, check out our job announcements at this previous post and resubmit. Thanks!
Sophia Raday in New York Times
Check out LM columnist Sophia Raday’s essay in the NY Times Modern Love column at Diary of a Soldier’s Wife: Tie-Dye and Camo Don’t Mix From the column: My husband is like the Lone Ranger: he leaves a trail of bullets in his wake. Not silver bullets, but gold 9 millimeters, orange “simunitions” and menacing […]
Rebecca Kaminsky guest blogger at Washington Post
Just wanted to let folks know that today (Tuesday, June 20) LM’s own Rebecca Kaminsky will be a guest blogger, filling in for Leslie Morgan Steiner at her parenting “work-life” blog on The Washington Post’s website. You will find her at: On Balance. And please join in the dialogue by posting a comment! You can […]
Literary Mama Book Reviewed in Washington Post
Check out the lastest review of Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined (Seal Press 2006) entitled Literary Mama: Mothers of Invention by Evelyn Small. Here is an excerpt Literary Mamas includes memoirs, fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry by contributors who are long-time and first-time writers, scholars and grandmothers, all focused on motherhood in its […]
LM makes the front page of THE STATE
The State published the following article on Literary Mama on the Sunday edition’s front page. We have the wonderful Claudia Brinson to thank! From the article: This is a new generation coming to terms with the demands of motherhood, says Cassie Premo Steele, 38. A mother and stepmother, Steele edited nonfiction for Literary Mama, teaches […]
LM discussed in San Francisco Chronicle
One of our Review editors, Joanne Hartman, altered me that Literary Mama had appeared in a July 24th San Francisco Chronicle article by Katherine Seligman titled “Ayelet, Unfiltered.” The subtitle reads: “Berkeley writer Ayelet Waldman’s bald honesty about putting her husband first made her a magnet for controversy. Would she take any of it back?” […]