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Literary Mama’s own Andi Buchanan recently appeared at the Association for Research on Mothering conference in Toronto, Canada talking about trends in mother-literature. The full text of her speech appears on her own blog, Mother Shock, but you can get a flavor of it here: It used to be transgressive to write about “the dark […]

Here in the United States it’s Election Day. Honor your revolutionary foremothers and get thee to your polling place! Remember that most of the early Suffragists in this country were mothers (many had five or six children): Julia Ward Howe, Kate Shepard, Ida B. Wells, Sojourner Truth. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote suffrage speeches while nursing […]

If a man gets caught molesting a child down the street, he’ll get jail time. If a father or step-father gets caught molesting a child living in his own house, he’ll get probation and therapy. This month, “O” Magazine takes on laws and family court systems that abuse children by failing to protect them from […]

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At the close of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’re pleased to debut a new column called Bare-breasted Mama. Actually, we’re more than pleased — we’re totally psyched. Written by Gail Konop Baker, it’s a raw, intimate, and powerful look at her journey as a mother with breast cancer. Personally, I have mixed feelings about […]

One of the fun things about being an editor here at Literary Mama is hearing about so many interesting writermama projects. Here’s a Call for Submissions for a zine on Mothering and Mental Health. Disclaimer: I’m passing this along to you with the usual disclaimer — we’re simply sharing information but we can’t verify anything […]

A Call for Submissions for a Special Issue of Kalliope Throughout the course of history, women have worked and fought on the front lines of war, whether it be the war to end slavery, the war to end all wars, the war against discrimination and injustice, the war on drugs, the war against the exploitation […]

At Literary Mama , we turn our attention to the stories of fathers once a year in June, but two fathers have recently released books worth checking out. First, a former Literary Mama contributor, larry bauer, has come out with his first collection of poems. Titled, Health Insurance and Other Matters of Death and published […]

Vicki Forman and Kyra Anderson (This Mom) are looking for essay submissions for their anthology, Gravity Pulls You In: Gravity Pulls You In, a work in progress, is an anthology of beautifully written essays that describe the experiences of parents raising children on the autism spectrum. We are looking for the piercing truth that can […]

Literary Mama Reviews Co-Editor Sybil Lockhart recently sold her memoir, Early Stages, to Simon and Schuster. Loosely based on the Mama in the Middle column she wrote for Literary Mama, Early Stages will tell the story of raising small children and caring for her mother who had Alzheimer’s disease, from a neurobiologist’s perspective. Congratulations, Sybil!