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LM Senior Editor and Red Diaper Dharma columnist, Ericka Lutz, wrote a column, “Truth. Parenting. Sex. Ouch.” several months ago about talking with her daughter about sex. Ericka and her daughter Annie’s interview with the American Public Media Show “The Story with Dick Gordon” produced by WUNC, will be broadcast Friday, April 27 at 1:00 […]

Glimmer Train Press is looking for short stories (12,000 word limit)about family matters. The dates are April 1-30 and October 1-31. The editors at Glimmer Train want “stories to READ like fiction.” http://www.glimmertrain.com/familymatters.html

Read Under The Saharan Sun columnist Jennifer Margulis’s latest story in The Christian Science Monitor: A crusading publisher pushes Niger’s limits, Maman Abou’s anti-corruption scoops are profitable, but dangerous to report. http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0417/p20s01-woaf.htm Abou, a free speech crusader who owns Niger’s biggest publishing house tells Margulis, “I’m human like everyone else. We’re always scared that something […]

The first ever large scale Choice Moms Expo (a single mother by choice) will be held in the San Francisco/Berkeley area on Saturday April 28. This event will feature more than 14 expert speakers on fertility, financial planning, how to adopt, parenting advice, dating and answering the daddy question. Even if you can’t make it […]

Fans of former LM editor Sophia Raday’s column Mommy Athens, Daddy Sparta will be delighted to hear that Sophia has recently signed a contract with Beacon Press for a memoir about her “red state, blue state” marriage. Look for the book in Spring 2009.

Notes from the Underbelly is getting decidedly mixed reviews, but read one Literary Mama’s take on it. Former LM columnist Liz Finn-Arnold reviews the new sitcom over on TV Squad.

I was a fan of Don Imus’ morning show. It was an edgy alternative to the banal network morning shows where hosts spend half their time mingling with sign-waving fans. For me, watching the Imus show was like walking into a locker room where five crude-mouthed men didn’t stop talking when they saw me. I […]

The first annual Crazyhorse/Tupelo Press Publishing Institute will be held June 4-30, 2007. The institute offers hands-on opportunities for graduate students and emerging writers to learn about literary publishing. At the institute, students will work with Crazyhorse Editors Carol Ann Davis and Garrett Doherty in classroom and real-world settings; Jeffrey Levine, Tupelo Press Publisher and […]

Would you give a newborn baby a sugar cookie? Even if you were desperate? Read about that first cookie in Caroline Grant’s essay on Hip Mama. Caroline edits Literary Reflections and writes the column Mama at the Movies.

Join Literary Reflections editor Caroline Grant and British writer Santa Montefiore on Sunday, April 22nd at 7:30 p.m.,for a reading and conversation about Montefiore’s new novel, The Gypsy Madonna: Elegant Anouk, a dealer in American antiques, dies leaving the Metropolitan museum an uncatalogued, multimillion dollar painting by Titian. Her son, Mischa, never even knew she […]

Philly area moms won’t want to miss Literary Mama co-founder Andi Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz, both of MotherTalk Inc., in a conversation with Maribeth Fischer, author of the novel The Life You Longed For. “Mother Talk” is an old-fashioned literary salon with good food, good company, and good conversation. And you don’t have to read […]