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So … How’s your journaling? Would you like to share an entry with LM readers? Until April 10th, we’ll accept responses to the For Your Journal writing prompts posted in January, February, and March. We’ll offer our feedback on each response privately before the end of the month and post our favorites to the LM […]

CALL FOR PAPERS Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection on Queering Maternity and Motherhood: Narrative and Theoretical Perspectives on Queer Conception, Birth and Parenting Editor: Joani Mortenson Publication Date: 2012 Deadline for abstracts: March 31, 2011 This anthology will explore the continuum of queer mothering, through conception to birth to parenting. Understanding […]

CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Mothering, Motherhood and Education featuring an embedded conference on Motherhood Studies: Developing and Disseminating a New Academic Discipline for a New Century October 20-23, 2011, Toronto, ON, Canada Deadline for abstracts: April 1, 2011! We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, workers, artists, mothers and others who work or […]

Call for essays: Breadwinning Broads: stories from women who bring home most (or even all) of the bacon The topic of wives out-earning their husbands has received a lot of attention recently. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a third of all wives earn more than their husbands (2003). The Breadwinning Broads project wants […]

Sara Ruddick–philosopher, writer, peace activist, mothering theorist and legend–has died. Ruddick, a professor of philosophy and women’s studies for nearly 40 years at the New School for Social Research, developed an approach to child-rearing that shifted the focus away from motherhood as a social institution or biological imperative and toward the day-to-day activities of raising […]

Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of Muslim Women Announcing a call for non-fiction/memoir/personal stories by American Muslim women on the search for love. These stories will be published in a book, Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women, by Soft Skull Press in February 2012. WHY A BOOK ABOUT THE SEARCH […]

Do you keep a journal – or wish you could get one started? Literary Mama wants to help. Three times a month, I’ll post a writing prompt. Open a notebook and write for 10 minutes. Don’t worry about grammar or punctuation – just write. Then let the writing simmer and your mind wander for awhile. […]

Literary Mama is looking for a part-time (4-6 hours/week) software guru to help keep our site up-to-date. Technical Requirements – Experience with web design (HTML, CSS) – Intimate knowledge of Movable Type (versions 4.3 and 5.0) and/or WordPress (versions 3.0 and up) – familiarity with all publishing features (entries, pages, categories, users) – experience installing […]

Suzanne Kamata, Literary Mama’s Fiction Editor, was wondering what she could do to help Japan’s evacuees. Read about it here.

Whenever I case a new location, look at friends’ vacation photos, or watch travelogues, I wonder about wheelchair accessibility. I wondered the same thing on Friday afternoon, watching disaster coverage on TV with my eleven-year-old daughter in Japan. Read more of Suzanne Kamata’s story here: Beacon Broadside.

Do you keep a journal – or wish you could get one started? Literary Mama wants to help. Three times a month, I’ll post a writing prompt. Open a notebook and write for 10 minutes. Don’t worry about grammar or punctuation – just write. Then let the writing simmer and your mind wander for awhile. […]