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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 that I hope will encourage you to open a notebook and write for 10 minutes. Don’t worry about grammar or punctuation – just write. Then let the writing […]

I don’t know how many of you are familiar with the Afghan Women’s Writing Project, but it is an utterly amazing project that brings together (mostly American) writers with Afghan women writing students. They do online classes and then publish the pieces on a blog. Their stories are absolutely riveting, compelling, inspiring and illuminating. Right […]

Led by Local Author Elizabeth Fishel Welcome New Members This Fall The Wednesday and Friday morning women’s writers’ workshops I’ve led in my Rockridge living room for many years are testimony to the power of writers’ groups as catalysts, support, sources of ideas, and inspiration for the literary life. Part writing class, part support group, […]

Pentimento is a quarterly publication written for and by individuals with disabilities and their caregivers. The word Pentimento refers to an underlying image in a painting, as an earlier painting or original draft that usually shows through when the top layer of paint becomes transparent with age. Therefore, the word itself implies seeing beyond the […]

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 that I hope will encourage you to open a notebook and write for 10 minutes. Don’t worry about grammar or punctuation – just write. Then let the writing […]

Congrats to these LM Staffers! Cassie Premo Steele, Colunmist: “I have three new publications coming out this fall: a book of poetry called This is how honey runs, published by Unbound Content; a novel, Shamrock and Lotus, published by All Things That Matter Press; and an essay in the anthology, Who Should Be First? Feminists […]

Ann Hood writes about motherhood like nobody else, from the troubled, pregnant teenager of her novel Ruby, to her bestselling memoir of loss and grief, Comfort. In between Hood has written ten other books as well as popular essays for the New York Times’ Modern Love column, Tin House and O: The Oprah Magazine. In […]

DATE: Tuesday, September 14 TIME: 6:30-8:30 (new time!) LOCATION: The Libertine Library at Gild Hall,15 Gold Street, NYC FREE ADMISSION Darin Strauss celebrated author of Chang and Eng and the memoir Half a Life Jennifer Egan Acclaimed Great American Novelist and author of The Keep and A Visit from the Goon Squad With Special Guest […]

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 that I hope will encourage you to open a notebook and write for 10 minutes. Don’t worry about grammar or punctuation – just write. Then let the writing […]

The Sophia Institute Presenter: Stephanie Hunt September 08, 2010 7 – 9 PM Tuition: Workshop – $25 in advance ~ $35 at the door. Literary Mama columnist Stephanie Hunt is a Charleston-based writer and editor. A contributing editor for Charleston Magazine, Charleston HOME and a regular contributor to Skirt! Magazine, her work runs the gamut […]

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 that I hope will encourage you to open a notebook. Write for 10 minutes. Don’t worry about grammar or punctuation – just write. Then let the writing simmer […]