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Nicole O’Donnell blogs about driving with her family and a pony…and being tailgated by a “hog” at Subartic Mama.

LM Fiction editor Suzanne Kamata and Special Needs Mama columnist Vicki Forman will appear on the KPFK Radio show Bibliocracy on Monday, April 28 to discuss Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs. This breakthrough anthology features poetry, short fiction and essays by established and emerging writers. To listen […]

A Storybook Ending for Prospective Children’s Book Authors Cheerios® Launches Next Spoonfuls of Stories® Children’s Book Contest to Give Would-Be Authors the Chance for Cash Prizes and Publisher Review! Once upon a time, there was a writer with an idea for the greatest children’s book in all the land. She had worked on the story, […]

Literary Reflections is pleased to announce this month’s featured writing prompt Selected Short. Each month we will choose one submission to appear as a short on our blog. Check out our section for more information on how to be considered for future Selected Shorts. In March’s prompt, we asked readers “What do you imagine your […]

Seeking Submissions from U.S. Women Writers for 3 Proposed Books* Guidelines also on: encirclepub.com 1. Women & Poetry: Tips on Writing, Publishing and Teaching from American Women Poets Foreword by Robin Merrill, Maine Poets Society President 2006-2007. M.F.A. Stonecoast. With hundreds of poems published, some from her chapbook Laundry & Stories (Moon Pie Press) were […]

Ericka Lutz: Primer for City Parents: Out and About with Kids: From Getting Across Town to Traveling Around Tuesday, May 6, 10:30-12 DETAILS: Presentation by author Ericka Lutz, with testimonials from seasoned parent travelers! Ericka is the author of On the Go with Baby: A Stress-Free Guide for Getting across Town or Around the World. […]

C. Delia Scarpitti, LM Columns Editor, will read from her work, Migration Summer and talk about the writing process at 2 p.m.,June 1 at the Newark Arts Alliance, 276 E. Main Street, Suite 102, Newark. “I believe that my background as a poet has only enriched my fiction process. Unlike the contract between a writer […]

Deesha Philyaw, LM contributor, has a story in “PMS poemmemoirstory is a 140-page, perfect-bound, all-women’s literary journal published annually by the University of Alabama at Birmingham. While we proudly publish the best work of the best women writers in the nation (i.e., Maxine Chernoff, Elaine Equi, Amy Gerstler, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Molly Peacock, Lucia Perillo, […]

A Cup of Comfort for New Mothers Few experiences bring forth as many anxieties, blessings, challenges, wonders, and changes as having a baby whether it’s your first child or fifth, your birth child or adopted child. And nothing is as miraculous as giving birth to or witnessing the birth of your baby. This heartwarming anthology […]

Elrena Evans, LM’s Marketing and Publicity Manager, holds an MFA from The Pennsylvania State University, and together with Senior Editor Caroline Grant is co-editor of Mama, PhD: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life (Rutgers University Press, 2008). She writes the column Me and My House for Literary Mama, and her writing has also appeared […]

Libby Gruner, LM’s Children’s Lit Book Group columnist, has written an article titled, “Teaching and Tae Kwon Do” in the March 21st issue of Inside Higher Ed. Libby, the self-described “least athletic person I know,” joined her son’s class after an invitation from his teacher. In the article, Libby says, “Some days class felt like […]