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Literary Mama’s Profiles Department needs an editorial assistant. The editorial assistant proof-reads and copy-edits approximately 1 profile per month, which is usually published the fourth Sunday of each month. Copy-editing duties include: copy-editing prose for punctuation and usage errors, verifying that external links work, creating additional links as requested by the editors, and communicating with […]

Come to a preview screening/potluck dinner/discussion/fundraiser for independent mom filmmaker Deirdre Fishel, who is raising funds to complete her documentary, Sperm Donor X. Donations gratefully accepted, but not required; come for the movie, stay for the discussion! Here is Deirdre’s story: I began filming Sperm Donor X at 40, when I found myself at a […]

The Literary Reflections Department needs an editorial assistant to compile our two monthly reading lists: the Essential Reading List features our favorite books in a particular category (travel, writing, read aloud, etc); the Now Reading List features titles that Literary Mamas are currently reading. The editorial assistant gets to correspond frequently with all the LM […]

Sunday, January 31st 1-4PM Join Literary Mama’s “Birthing the Mother Writer” columnist, Cassie Premo Steele, an award-winning writer and creativity coach, for a lovely afternoon of journaling, meditation, walks in the woods, and homemade baked goods and tea by the fire at a private home on 10 beautiful acres in central South Carolina. Cost is […]

News from Great Green Room Columnist Stephanie Hunt: I’m hoping the new year finds you well. I wanted to let you know of a new blog venture I’m co-creating with my writer/artist friend Susan Hull Walker — it’s a contemplative blog (we’re trying to prove that’s not an oxymoron!), reflecting on the shared journey we […]

Show your love for Literary Mama by swigging from a Literary Mama Sigg, donning an LM t-shirt or trucker hat, using LM notecards for your correspondence, and toting everything from sippy cups to manuscripts in your LM tote. We’re open for business over at Cafe Press; we’ll send all proceeds from the sale of LM […]

Join award-winning writer and teacher, Kate Hopper, for a weekend retreat for mother-writers. We’ll write, share our writing, discuss challenges with craft, and have time to connect with other mother writers in the luxury and quiet of Faith’s Lodge. Group meetings and individual conferences with Kate will help support you as you delve more deeply […]

Editor-in-chief Caroline Grant will be on ABC-7’s View from the Bay, Wednesday January 6th, sharing our editors’ and columnists’ picks for favorite children’s books. Check out the list and take it to your favorite local bookstore or library so that you can share these books with the kids you love.

Check out the new Fine Line Editorial Consultancy and its newsletter about writers and writing: “The Fine Line is an Edinburgh-based Editorial Consultancy, committed to helping new, burgeoning, and established writers realise their literary potential. Our aim is to inspire and assist. We provide advice to get you started, lessons to download, insights into the […]

We’ve been busy during these holidays, updating our software and redesigning the look of the site, which was long past due for a refresher. Literary Mama was founded over five years ago by a small group of writers who first met as part of a Berkeley, California writing group led by Amy Hudock. Amy and […]

Please join us for our December 8 reading and fundraising event celebrating an amazing first year! December 8 brings three, that’s right 3 acclaimed writers to the Libertine Library: Sam Apple, Amy Sohn, and Jeffrey Rotter. All are great writers who will share their work, wit, and tales from the trenches of writing while simultaneously […]