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Join us in congratulating Suzanne Kamata, Literary Mama’s fiction co-editor, on the publication of Love You To Pieces, Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs, the first literary collection—fiction, essays, and poetry—on raising special-needs children. Available for pe-order at Amazon.com. Responding to a dearth of literary writing on disability, Suzanne Kamata gathers parents’ […]

MomsRising wants you to share your story about the challenges of raising children in our country…. My daughter still remembers her favorite Halloween costume at age six–purple balloons pinned all over her body to make her look like a bunch of grapes. That was the first year she wasn’t afraid of the Halloween hoopla. She’s […]

Andrea O’Reilly will be in Tuscon, Arizona Wednesday November 7- Sunday, November 11, 2007. While there, she hopes to conduct interviews with faculty and grad students on their experience of being a mother academic as part of her her sshrcc funded research “On Being a Mother in the Academe”. For full description of this project […]

Being a mother often proves the most difficult, and the most important, job in the world; one that includes conflict but also brings rich — albeit often unspoken — rewards. In this anthology, we seek to honor real-life mothers and, therefore, want inspiring, true, personal stories that speak to the challenges, ultimately positive experiences, and […]

Job description: Update the content of the Web site on a weekly schedule, using Moveable Type, FTP, and HTML. Maintain the integrity of the site: update templates and style sheets, fix broken links and outdated code, add new departments or sections as the site grows, and filter and report C Panel statistics. Work closely with […]

Taken From Leslie Morgan Steiner’s “On Balance” this morning: Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans left parish ministry in 2002. She is currently a freelance writer, columnist, and supply priest living in Glenmoore, Penn., with her family. One of her projects is editing a collection of cautionary, inspiring, humorous, and candid “stories from the sanctuary” about the lives […]

Congratulations to LM’s own Susan Ito (Life in the Sandwich) whose essay is featured in the anthology, Choice:True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood and Adoption edited by Karen E. Bender and Nina de Gramont. In today’s Huffington Post, Karen E. Bender writes about the ongoing battle over reproductive rights and the limitless […]

York University’s 11th annual conference on motherhood, hosted by the Association for Research on Mothering, will focus on something mothers too often ignore – their own health and well-being. “Mothers around the world are given the responsibility of caring for their families’ health, but while they are taking care of everyone else, their own health […]

Carol Ungar is in the process of setting up a webzine that will feature poetry, creative non fiction, fiction and visual arts that explore different aspects of female Jewish identity from a traditional angle—no Rabbi bashing please. Sorry, no pay but hopefully some exposure. Carol is interested in edgy high quality original material, doesn’t mind […]

Are you a writer longing to be discovered? Submit your manuscript for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. It’s the perfect opportunity to become the next great novelist: the winning author will receive a publishing contract from Penguin Group, including promotional support for their book on Amazon.com, and a media suite from Hewlett-Packard. Check out the […]

Caroline Grant is LM’s Literary reflections editor and writes, Mama at the Movies. Caroline has an essay called, “Summer Reading” in the latest issue of Motherverse. I don’t see Ben working to read, although he’s been interested in books and letters since he was a baby. We used to leave a couple boardbooks along with […]