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Come join us for a writing vacation! Amy Hudock will teach a course in Memoir Writing at the Citadel in Charleston, SC, this summer, June 15-26, weekdays, 8:30-1:45. You’ll love the writing marathons in historic downtown Charleston, days at the Citadel Beach House on the Isle of Palms, and amazingly good writing workshops. We can […]

A Works-In-Progress Play Reading Series Deadline: January 5, 2009 To be produced by RCA Theatre, She Said Yes!, and White Rooster Productions in celebration of International Women’s Week, March 6 – 8, 2009 Theatre companies RCA Theatre, She Said Yes!, and White Rooster Productions are joining forces to present the third annual series of play […]

The producers of What’s Your Point, Honey? (see Mama at the Movies column on the film) will offer a 20% discount on purchase of the DVD for Literary Mama readers. The film makes a great gift for parents, teachers, your nieces and nephews, cousins and babysitters. For more information, visit the film’s website and use […]

Announcing the newest issue of Miranda, a zine about motherhood and other adventures by Creative Nonfiction editor Kate Haas. In issue #18: Kubla Khan in Morocco – How the crushing heat of a North African summer inspired me to memorize a classic poem. Not the Austins – As a kid, I vowed that my future […]

The editors of Dads in Academia: Male Voices In and Out of the Ivory Tower invite contributions for an interdisciplinary collection of creative nonfiction essays on the rewards and challenges of being both a father and an academic. Much recent discussion about the juxtaposition of parenthood and the academy has focused on the difficulties that […]

Dear Reader, Four weeks left to enter! The Crazyhorse Fiction Prize The Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize $2000 each and publication in Crazyhorse. Postmark Deadline to Enter: December 15, 2008 Upload your entry online or mail. Each year Crazyhorse offers the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize for a single short story and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry […]

Fiction editor Kristina Riggle’s first novel, Real Life and Liars, is now available for pre-order. Also, two former LM columnists are publishing memoirs based on their columns. Sybil Lockhart’s Mother in the Middle: A Biologist’s Story of Caring for Parent and Child, based on her Mama in the Middle column, is due out in February. […]

Part of the problem is that I treat writing like a privilege not an obligation. It comes after everything, after all my other responsibilities. Maegan “la Mala” Ortiz My Writing Life Woman’s Work: The Short Stories is a celebration of what happens when women finally get to the page. About the extraordinary stories that spill […]

….and we need a fresh look! We’re soliciting designs for a new logo that includes our name and tagline — Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined — plus, optionally, an image that captures the spirit of the site. The winning entry will become the property of Literary Mama, to be used on our site, […]

The Mama Mary Show is seeking submissions about stories of loss, grief, redemption and joy from Daughters who have lost their Dads: I am looking for submissions from any and all women who have lost their dads, any age and any circumstance. The pain is universal but each individual story is unique. I loved my […]

Mama, PhD Reading at University Press Books 2430 Bancroft Way, Berkeley Thursday, November 13th, 6 PM “All those sleepless nights and dirty diapers and baby food in your hair — where’s the discursive construction of motherhood when you need it?” –Catherine Newman Higher Education could be an enormously family-friendly environment, a model for other workplaces, […]