Kudos!
Congratulations to these Literary Mama Staff members!
~~~~~
Reviews Editor Rudri Bhatt Patel taught a live workshop via Writers.com on “Moving Your Writing Forward: The Art of the Bullet Journal,” as well as an eight-week class, “Writing Our Grief: How to Channel Loss Into Creative Expression.” She published the piece, “Turmeric for Depression: Is It Worth Trying?,” for Everyday Health, “Greg Peterson and His Impact on the Phoenix Community: The Urban Farm” for the Phoenix News Times, and “Assistive Technology for Older People” for Far.com.
~~~~~
Blog and Photo Editor Stephanie Buesinger’s flash fiction piece, Hashtag Icarus, and her poem 7:00 pm, Juno were both published in The Bluebird Word. Her story The Truth Is appeared in Fiction Attic Press.
~~~~~
Senior Editor Christina Consolino’s reading list for Mental Health Awareness Month was published on Women Writers, Women Books, and her profile of Allison Blevins was included in the March/April 2022 issue of Literary Mama. Her debut novel, Rewrite the Stars, was listed as finalist in the Independent Book Award and came in as runner-up for Romance and Women’s Fiction in the Maxy Awards.
~~~~~
Publisher Cindy DiTiberio had an essay titled “Words: on the linguistic indoctrination of a woman,” published by Isele Magazine, which was then featured in the Substack Memoir Monday: selections of the best memoir writing on the web. She moderated a panel on motherhood at the Bay Area Book Festival on Mother’s Day, and continues to publish her Substack newsletter, The Mother Lode.
~~~~~
Co-poetry editor Ellen Elder has a poetry review coming out this summer in Tupelo Quarterly 27 on Chloe Honum’s newest collection The Lantern Room.
~~~~~
Senior Advisor Amanda Jaros’s essay “Thin Air and Sticks” was published in the May/June 2022 issue of Literary Mama. She’s delighted to have her creative work published in her favorite journal.
~~~~~
Senior editor Andrea Lani’s memoir, Uphill Both Ways: Hiking toward Happiness on the Colorado Trailwas published by Bison Books on March 1. The book tells the story of the 500-mile hike she took with her husband and three kids, intertwined with the natural, cultural, and environmental history of the Colorado Rockies. In May, her essay “Stay Together, Learn the Flowers, Go Light,” which is a meditation on the Gary Snyder poem “For the Children” as it relates to long-distance hiking as a family and the state of the world today, was published at The Art of Everyone.
~~~~~
Fiction Editor Kimberly Lee joined the board of the Transformative Language Arts Network and began offering online creative writing classes at Loft Literary and Hugo House. Her essay “Aspiration Plus Action: Climbing the Ladder to My Dreams” was published in the SoulCollage® community newsletter. She completed certification as a Journal to the Self workshop facilitator and has been accepted to attend the Hurston/Wright Writers Retreat this summer.
~~~~~
Senior Editor and Poetry Editor Libby Maxey placed a poem in the latest issues of Mom Egg Review and another in The Briar Cliff Review, which also printed her work as an illustrated broadside. Her poem “Memento Mori” appeared in Naugatuck River Review among the other finalists in the journal’s annual narrative poetry contest.
~~~~~
Blog Editor Crystal Rowe’s poems “Memories” and “Missing Person” were published in The Order of Us: Expectations, Restoration, and the Beauty of Chaos and her essay “Mama Dreams, Daughter Dreams” was published in the May/June 2022 issue of Literary Mama. She continues to publish her monthly newsletter about writing and motherhood.
~~~~~
Profiles Editor, Holly Rizzuto Palker, is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in an array of publications such as Parents Magazine, The New York Daily News, and The Independent. She recently spoke on a panel called, Rolodexes May Be Outdated, But Yours Should Not Beat the American Society of Journalists and Authors 2022 conference.
~~~~~
New Managing Editor Tracy Stewart has published a romantic suspense novella series with an underlying theme of second chances, and a set of Kindle short reads exploring our perceptions of other people’s lives as seen through train journeys. All are available on Amazon and through Kindle Unlimited. She is hosting a literary discussion with ex-pat mamas based in France this French Mothers Day.
~~~~~