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The MotherVerse Online workshops (Writing Motherhood & Publishing A Blog) have been moved back to September 15 and will be running until October 20th. There are plenty of spots still available! This is such a fabulous resource and way to connect with writing peers and mothers! Workshop descriptions below: Writing Motherhood Workshop –workshop focused on […]

Creative Nonfiction Writing Class September 8th- October 29th, 2008 Violeta Garcia-Mendoza, Literary Mama Columnist and Literary Reflections Co-editor, will be offering a 7-week online workshop for beginning to intermediate creative nonfiction writers. If you want to explore creative nonfiction writing, develop your voice, and go deeper into your craft, this encouraging and inspiring workshop is […]

Mark your calendars for these upcoming events featuring Literary Mama editors and columnists: Book Passage (San Francisco); Thursday, August 7th 6:00 pm San Francisco Ferry Building Senior Editor Shari MacDonald Strong (The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood & Social Change) and other contributors read from the new anthology. Book Passage […]

Today at former LM columnist Gail Konop Baker’s group blog, The Debutante Ball, Elrena Evans and Caroline Grant are guest-blogging about how they created their new book, Mama, PhD. Here’s an excerpt: Meet over email. Of course; you live, after all, 3,000 miles apart, but it helps our relationship get into writing right away. We […]

Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection on Queering Parenting Publication Date: Spring 2011 Editors: Susan Driver and Zoë Newman A proliferation of experientially based essays, media stories, documentary films, television profiles, photographic essays and do-it-yourself manuals featuring lesbian mothers and gay dads have emerged to mark out cultural discourses in which to […]

Jen Lawrence (Reviews Editor) has recently launched Bliss Notes, a free weekly email newsletter focusing on joyful living. Bliss Notes is a weekly newsletter designed to help you live a life of abundance. Whether we are bringing you a review of the latest self-help book, interviews with people who have mastered the art of abundant […]

TravelingMamas.com is in search of true uplifting, funny, inspirational, and touching stories with a travel theme for an upcoming anthology series. Possible themes may include family travel, romantic escapes, girlfriend getaways, and solo trips. We’re looking for stories that inspire us, force us to laugh out loud or make us reach for the tissue box. […]

Violeta Garcia Mendoza, LM’s “Multi-Culti Mami” columnist has an article published in the July/August issue of Multilingual Living Magazine. It’s entitled “What Led Us to These Doors: Our Family’s Journey of Bilingualism and International Adoption.” It’s the (brief) story behind her family’s adoptions, and how bilingualism looks in her house. There’s also a section with […]

Literary Reflections is pleased to present our featured writing prompt response for June. We asked “Is there a difficult or joyful experience of your own that you have not yet been able to write about? What would it look like if you could paint a scene of it?” Meredith Hatcher wrote: Forgiveness Pending I knew […]

Enjoy a good hunt? You can win four of LM founding editor and columnist Ericka Lutz’s parenting/teen books by participating in an online Scavenger Hunt at her Red Room author site. Winner receives: One copy of each of the following four books, all signed by Ericka: On the Go with Baby The Complete Idiot’s Guide […]

Check out the write up of LM columnist (Zen and the Art of Child Maintanence) Shari MacDonald Strong’s new anthology, The Maternal is Political in Susie Bright’s Journal. Bright has an essay in the anthology and writes a brief summary of some contributors such as Marion Winik, (LM’s) Ona Gritz, Mary Akers, Cindy Sheehan, and […]