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Call for Submissions Pay: $100+ on acceptance of manuscript Length: 2,000-4,000 words You are welcome to send a fully-written essay, but a query with a 1-2 paragraph proposal is also fine. Make sure to include a bio, other publishing credits (and a writing sample, if you’re not sending a complete piece. Please email queries and […]

Amy Hudock, LM’s CEO and Stephanie Hunt, LM’s column Editor, participated in a panel called, “Feminist Parenting” for the Women and Gender studies program at the College of Charleston. Under the direction of Dr. Alison Piepmeier, the Women and Gender studies program offers, Third Thursdays, a monthly series of informal, conversational salons. Faculty, staff, and […]

Before I had children, I had all these rituals to get myself in the mood for writing” you know, the right music, fragrant tea, some quiet reflective time. After I had children I learned to go at it like a high diver off the spring board, no preliminaries. I learned to write to the soundtrack […]

POETRY CREATIVE NON-FICTION BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY *THEME: MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS DEADLINE: MAY 1, 2008 Prizes of $500 for 1st place, $300 for 2nd place, and $200 for 3rd place, will be awarded for poems, creative non-fiction, and photography on the theme of Mother and Daughters. The winning works in all categories, as well as […]

Literary Reflections is pleased to announce that, beginning this month, we’ll be selecting one writing prompt response each month to feature as a short on our blog. Check out our section for more information on how to be considered for future Selected Shorts. In February’s prompt, we asked readers to “Write about something from the […]

Susan Ito, LM’s Life in the Sandwich columnist, has published an online version of, “The Lost Story,” in the Readerville Journal. Thomas Wolfe’s tale of a lost brother broke open the heart of a woman whose name I don’t remember. And in the dark humid night, while everyone else slept, she gave me the key […]

Elrena Evans, LM’s marketing and publicity manager, is giving a reading next Tuesday, March 4th, at Messiah College in PA. It’s at 7:30 and is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow. Check out Elrena’s story, When the Light was Still New, published by the Wild Rose Press. When the daughter […]

Avon Harper Collins will publish Kristina Riggle’s debut novel, Real Life and Liars, in the summer of 2009. It’s about a fading flower child who has her own idea about how to treat her breast cancer — which doesn’t include surgery — much to the dismay of her three grown children whose personal crises just […]

We’d like to introduce LM’s new E-Zine Editor, Marie Walden. Marie lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with her husband and six children. After a number of years as a stay-at-home mom and community volunteer, she returned to the workforce as a CPA and found that putting on panty hose and pumps was infinitely less enjoyable […]

The call to participate in a blog day for Patry Francis attracted my attention because I’d just enjoyed reading her profile here on Literary Mama. To learn that she’s too ill, right now, from cancer treatment to promote her book, The Liar’s Diary, attracted my sympathy. I don’t know Francis, and I confess I haven’t […]

Author Regan McMahon (Revolution in the Bleachers: How Parents Can Take Back Family Life in a World Gone Crazy Over Youth Sports) currently featured in Profiles (who also happens to be the deputy book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle) has some book recommendations for Literary Mama readers. McMahon says: “I loved the book I […]