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Bridget Lillethorup

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Where Are They Now? An Interview with LM Contributor, Laurie Rachkus Uttich

Welcome to our newest blog series: Where Are They Now? In this series, our editors interview past Literary Mama contributors to see what they’ve accomplished since publishing in LM and talk about their writing journeys. Look to this series for writing inspiration, reading suggestions, and connections to other mama writers. This week, Blog Editor and CNF Editorial […]

Bridget Lillethorup |  June 3, 2022 | | Blog |  No comments

Where Are They Now? An Interview with LM Contributor Trish Hopkinson

Welcome to our newest blog series: Where Are They Now? In this series, our editors interview past Literary Mama contributors to see what they’ve accomplished since publishing in LM and talk about their writing journeys. This week, Senior Editor Christina Consolino chatted with Trish Hopkinson, who has published both poetry and a review for Literary Mama. You […]

Blog Editor |  May 6, 2022 | | Blog |  No comments

Community News – HerStry Blog

We at Literary Mama love HerStry Blog, where “telling your story is a revolutionary act.” If you haven’t read the personal essays they publish each week, we recommend you check them out, or maybe even submit your own essay under the monthly theme. From their website: “Since 2015 we have collected hundreds of stories from […]

Blog Editor |  April 27, 2022 | | Blog |  No comments

Community News – Zibby Owens’ Upcoming Memoir

 New Book Recommendation! Zibby Owens’ newest memoir, Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, is slated for publication in July 2022, and we can’t wait to read it. She writes that the book is “a deeply personal memoir about one woman’s journey to finding her voice and rewriting her story by the creator and […]

Blog Editor |  April 20, 2022 | | Blog |  One Comments

Community News – Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop

Literary Mama is proud to support the Erma Bombeck Writer’s Workshop, which will take place October 20–22, 2022, in Dayton, Ohio. Seats are still available for this in-person workshop, and there’s a virtual option too. From their website: “The Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop has been dubbed the ‘Woodstock of Humor.’ Another writer describes it as […]

Bridget Lillethorup |  April 13, 2022 | | Blog |  No comments

Calls for Submissions – April 2022

Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we’ll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts each month. If there is a ❤️ next to a call, that means the magazine or press is specifically looking for mother writers. We ❤️ all our Mamas! Literary Mama is always open […]

Blog Editor |  April 5, 2022 | | Blog |  5 Comments

Where Are They Now? An Interview with LM Contributor Erika Dreifus

Welcome to our newest blog series: Where Are They Now? In this series, our editors interview past Literary Mama contributors to see what they’ve accomplished since publishing in LM and talk about their writing journeys. This week, Senior Editor Christina Consolino talked with Erika Dreifus, whose fiction was published in Literary Mama in 2011. To read more […]

Blog Editor |  April 1, 2022 | | Blog |  2 Comments

100 Words of Writing Advice from Kimberly Lee, Literary Reflections Editor

“Try to recapture that childlike state, when you wrote just for the sake of it, without concern for whether anyone outside of yourself will like it, publish it, or favorably review it. Write down every little idea that comes to you, no matter how silly it may seem, even if you don’t know what you […]

Blog Editor |  March 28, 2022 | | Blog |  No comments

“Mama And…” March Edition + February Highlights

Thank you for participating in our “Mama And” prompt series! We had wonderful submissions for our mischievous month in February. See our favorite contributions below! Our prompt for March is: Mama And Running Whether it’s flash fiction, micro-story, drabble, found or short poetry, or even art, each prompt will be an invitation to share a […]

Blog Editor |  March 9, 2022 | | Blog |  No comments

Kudos!

Congratulations to these Literary Mama Staff members! ~~~~~ Literary Reflection Editor Kimberly Lee’s creative nonfiction appeared in the anthologies I Am Woman: Expressions of Black Womanhood in America and Rearing in the Rearview by Quillkeepers Press. Other writing was published in Fresh Ink, Mom Egg Review, and on the blogs of Amherst Writers & Artists and the Transformative Language Arts Network. Kimberly’s review of Motherhood: Facing & Finding Yourself appeared […]

Blog Editor |  February 25, 2022 | | Blog |  No comments

100 Words of Writing Advice from Bridget Lillethorup, Blog Editor

“Read. Read the voices of those you want to talk to. Read the conversations you want to be a part of. Read one new thing every day, or every week. I say it’s ok to skip the classics. Find your contemporaries. What can you add to this conversation, through your own experiences and talents? Go […]

Blog Editor |  February 16, 2022 | | Blog |  No comments

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