Jen Lawrence

Literary Mama’s Reviews desk is in the enviable position of receiving far more books than we can ever hope to review. While we are giddy that so many authors are writing books about mothering, and so many mother writers are writing books about, well, everything, we cannot review more than a handful of titles each […]

Vicki Forman and Kyra Anderson (This Mom) are looking for essay submissions for their anthology, Gravity Pulls You In: Gravity Pulls You In, a work in progress, is an anthology of beautifully written essays that describe the experiences of parents raising children on the autism spectrum. We are looking for the piercing truth that can […]

Literary Mama Reviews Co-Editor Sybil Lockhart recently sold her memoir, Early Stages, to Simon and Schuster. Loosely based on the Mama in the Middle column she wrote for Literary Mama, Early Stages will tell the story of raising small children and caring for her mother who had Alzheimer’s disease, from a neurobiologist’s perspective. Congratulations, Sybil!

THE BOSTON FICTION FESTIVAL is accepting submissions for live reading at the Festival in summer of 2007 and subsequent publication in our annual review. Submitting authors should expect to read at the Festival in order to receive payment. New England residents are strongly encouraged to submit, but all writers are welcome. Looking for lively, literary […]

LM Senior Editor Ericka Lutz and columnist Rachel Sarah will be reading at San Francisco’s LitQuake LitCrawl (“For those who like their literature served neat, on the rocks, or with a water back!”) Mommy Lit: The Pleasures, Perils, and Politics of Motherhood Readings by: Ericka Lutz, Rachel Sarah, Joan Blades, Katherine Ellison, Kate Hodson, and […]

CFP: Mothering and Popular Culture (collection) I am looking for papers for an edited collection, under provisional contract with McGill-Queen’s University Press, tentatively called Mediated Moms: Mothering and Popular Culture. The proposed scholarly volume will examine the topic of mothers, mothering, and motherhood within and across all forms of twentieth and twenty-first century popular cultures. […]

Today’s stop of the Literary Mama blog tour takes us to LM’s Literary Reflections co-editor Caroline Grant’s blog Food for Thought. Although Grant writes frequently about her love of cooking and her favourite recipes, this is not a “food” blog per se. Rather, Food for Thought reads like a cookbook passed down through the family, […]

Yesterday evening marked the official launch of GreenStone Media, a new national radio network “for women, by women.” With powerhouses Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem serving on GreenStone’s board, this looks like a wonderful day for feminists, indeed. GreenStone promises to be “what is missing in talk today — radio that is thought-provoking, emotionally involving, […]

Mediabistro.com’s Galleycat has an interesting piece on product placement in books. While a handful of books that have embraced this idea does not a trend make, one wonders how long authors will be able to resist tapping into the $6 billion of product placement dollars and in-kind payments. Since so many advertisers are focused on […]

Literary Mama’s E-zine editor Shannon L. C. Cate’s blog, Peter’s Cross Station, chronicles what it is like to be a “life-partnered, over-educated, tea-not-coffee-drinking lesbian co-parenting the planet’s cutest child,” and to live in a “a queer interracial family in the times of George W. Bush”. Blog fans may recognize her as the voice behind “Waiting […]

It’s the fall. The air is growing crisp, the days are growing shorter and it’s the perfect time to pour yourself a nice strong cup of tea, draw the curtains and curl up with Literary Mama. This summer saw the relaunch of our e-zine, the launch of the Mama Sez column where LM editors share […]