Ericka Lutz

Elle Magazine online features a review of Literary Mama columnist Jessica Berger Gross’s new book About What Was Lost: twenty writers on miscarriage, healing, and hope, which hits the stores this December just in time for the holidays. Congratulations, Jessica!

Rachel Kramer Bussel, self-described “Writer, Editor, Sex Columnist, Reading Series Host, Cupcake Lover, Comedy Fan, Smutmonger, Total Dork,” recently interviewed LM’s own columnist Rachel Sarah about her book Single Mom Seeking. Read the interview!

Single Mom Seeking debuts on the 11 o’clock news! Last night (11.21.06), the charming CBS 5 News reporter Joe Vasquez tracked Literary Mama columnist Rachel Sarah and her single mom friends down during their weekly “Girls’ Night.” A new study was just released – about the new surge of unmarried moms – and he wanted […]

We’re doing a special issue focusing on STEPPARENTING, and we need your help and your writing! Here at Literary Mama, we’ve always welcomed — encouraged — made it our mission — to feature the many voices and faces of motherhood. That includes stepmothers, of course. As a stepmother, and as the author of a bestselling […]

Literary Mama’s own Andi Buchanan recently appeared at the Association for Research on Mothering conference in Toronto, Canada talking about trends in mother-literature. The full text of her speech appears on her own blog, Mother Shock, but you can get a flavor of it here: It used to be transgressive to write about “the dark […]

Here in the United States it’s Election Day. Honor your revolutionary foremothers and get thee to your polling place! Remember that most of the early Suffragists in this country were mothers (many had five or six children): Julia Ward Howe, Kate Shepard, Ida B. Wells, Sojourner Truth. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote suffrage speeches while nursing […]

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Would you like to join our editorial staff? We’re looking for a copyeditor for our Reviews department. Please send a letter/resume expressing your interest/experience to Sybil Lockhart, Jen Lawrence, and Rebecca Kaminsky — reviews@literarymama.com.

One of the fun things about being an editor here at Literary Mama is hearing about so many interesting writermama projects. Here’s a Call for Submissions for a zine on Mothering and Mental Health. Disclaimer: I’m passing this along to you with the usual disclaimer — we’re simply sharing information but we can’t verify anything […]

A Call for Submissions for a Special Issue of Kalliope Throughout the course of history, women have worked and fought on the front lines of war, whether it be the war to end slavery, the war to end all wars, the war against discrimination and injustice, the war on drugs, the war against the exploitation […]

We’re looking for four wonderful women (mothers!) to join us here on the Literary Mama editorial board. Creative Nonfiction Co-Editor The Creative Nonfiction Co-Editor will head up the Creative Nonfiction department with Shari MacDonald, our current CNF Editor. Duties and joys include selecting nonfiction pieces, writing acceptance and rejection letters, working with authors on accepted […]