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THE BOSTON FICTION FESTIVAL is accepting submissions for live reading at the Festival in summer of 2007 and subsequent publication in our annual review. Submitting authors should expect to read at the Festival in order to receive payment. New England residents are strongly encouraged to submit, but all writers are welcome. Looking for lively, literary […]

LM Senior Editor Ericka Lutz and columnist Rachel Sarah will be reading at San Francisco’s LitQuake LitCrawl (“For those who like their literature served neat, on the rocks, or with a water back!”) Mommy Lit: The Pleasures, Perils, and Politics of Motherhood Readings by: Ericka Lutz, Rachel Sarah, Joan Blades, Katherine Ellison, Kate Hodson, and […]

CFP: Mothering and Popular Culture (collection) I am looking for papers for an edited collection, under provisional contract with McGill-Queen’s University Press, tentatively called Mediated Moms: Mothering and Popular Culture. The proposed scholarly volume will examine the topic of mothers, mothering, and motherhood within and across all forms of twentieth and twenty-first century popular cultures. […]

Today’s stop of the Literary Mama blog tour takes us to LM’s Literary Reflections co-editor Caroline Grant’s blog Food for Thought. Although Grant writes frequently about her love of cooking and her favourite recipes, this is not a “food” blog per se. Rather, Food for Thought reads like a cookbook passed down through the family, […]

Yesterday evening marked the official launch of GreenStone Media, a new national radio network “for women, by women.” With powerhouses Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem serving on GreenStone’s board, this looks like a wonderful day for feminists, indeed. GreenStone promises to be “what is missing in talk today — radio that is thought-provoking, emotionally involving, […]

Mediabistro.com’s Galleycat has an interesting piece on product placement in books. While a handful of books that have embraced this idea does not a trend make, one wonders how long authors will be able to resist tapping into the $6 billion of product placement dollars and in-kind payments. Since so many advertisers are focused on […]

Literary Mama’s E-zine editor Shannon L. C. Cate’s blog, Peter’s Cross Station, chronicles what it is like to be a “life-partnered, over-educated, tea-not-coffee-drinking lesbian co-parenting the planet’s cutest child,” and to live in a “a queer interracial family in the times of George W. Bush”. Blog fans may recognize her as the voice behind “Waiting […]

It’s the fall. The air is growing crisp, the days are growing shorter and it’s the perfect time to pour yourself a nice strong cup of tea, draw the curtains and curl up with Literary Mama. This summer saw the relaunch of our e-zine, the launch of the Mama Sez column where LM editors share […]

Literary Mama Editor-in-Chief Amy Hudock’s essay, “Transformations” appears in Skirt! magazine. This touching piece deals with how Amy’s mother dealt with losing her hair while undergoing chemotherary. Amy’s current writing can also be found in her Literary Mama column, Mother Writing: Our Storied Past.

Pushing her red-haired daughter into the world was, Elrena Evans realizes, the coolest thing she had ever done. Now they nurse, watch Star Trek, read The Baby Goes Beep, navigate graduate school meetings, and nurse a whole lot more. Together, they are Birthing: A Process in Vignettes. You read it here first; read it again […]

So here I am again, standing in a small group of mothers ten to fifteen years younger than me, smiling and nodding and going “Oooh,” and “Ouch!” and “Oh my god” at appropriate times as they swap stories of pregnancy, labor, and childbirth. The five of us mothers have children in nursery school together; we […]