Kudos!
Congratulations to these Literary Mama staff members!
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Profiles and Senior Editor Christina Consolino was thrilled that her essay, “Disacknowledgments,” found a home with the Brevity Blog.
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Devin Pope published the poem, “Ankle Specialist,” in AZ Central’s Poetry Spot. She also has three pieces forthcoming (April 2019) in the journal Write On, Downtown.
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Rudri Bhatt Patel published the piece, “A Phoenix Urban Garden Provides At-Risk Individuals a Path Forward,” in Civil Eats. She also published the essay, “I’m Raising an Only Child – And I’m a Mother Like Any Other,” in Your Teen Magazine.
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Fiction Editor Colleen Kearney Rich had her chapbook, Things You Won’t Tell Your Therapist, published by Finishing Line Press in January.
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Jamie Sumner is happy to announce her two-book deal with Atheneum/Simon & Schuster following her debut middle grade novel, Roll With It, in October of 2019.
From Publishers Weekly: “Reka Simonsen at Atheneum has bought two middle grade novels by Jamie Sumner. The Survival Playlist is the story of 12-year-old Lou Montgomery, a talented singer with a flighty, fame-hungry mother and an undiagnosed sensory processing disorder that makes performing nearly unbearable. Publication is scheduled for fall 2020, with a second, untitled novel to follow in fall 2021.”