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When any polite woman learned I was pregnant with twins, she’d ask, “Were you surprised?” I would say, “Yes, totally surprised!” The next question would inevitably be, “Do twins run in your family?” “Yes,” I’d say, “My aunt had triplets for her third pregnancy, and they’re 33.” This conversation was, of course, code. If I […]

It just won’t go away, will it? My copy of Leslie Morgan Steiner’s Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families arrived last week and although I have not yet had a chance to dip underneath its spilled milk cover, I feel as though I have already formulated […]

Literary Mama Commentary Editor Dawn Friedman’s moving essay, Open Adoption, Broken Heart, has been published on Salon.com. Wondertime, a new magazine by the editors of FamilyFun, has bought exclusive serial rights to Creative Non-Fiction Editor Jennifer Margulis’s book, Why Babies Do That. She will be kicking off a blog book tour in May in honor […]

Tuesday, 3.21, 1 p.m. (EST) LM creative nonfiction editor Jennifer Margulis chats online at pregnancy.org about her new book Why Babies Do That. Thursday, 3.23, 7 p.m. LM managing editor Andi Buchanan will be speaking at a Mother Talk salon with Miriam Peskowitz, hosted by the publishers of Brain,Child magazine, in Charlottesville. (If you’re in […]

Check out the lastest review of Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined (Seal Press 2006) entitled Literary Mama: Mothers of Invention by Evelyn Small. Here is an excerpt Literary Mamas includes memoirs, fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry by contributors who are long-time and first-time writers, scholars and grandmothers, all focused on motherhood in its […]

It seems like every time I sit down to write, something more immediate calls me away. The toddler refuses to nap. The baby is fussy with an ear infection. The dog needs to be taken to the vet. The nice thing about being involved in a community of mother writers is knowing that so many […]

Given that it is International Women’s Day, Maud Newton’s blog post today reads as particularly disheartening. Newton links to Meghan O’Rourke’s essay in Slate entitled Desperate Feminist Wives: Why wanting equality makes women unhappy. O’Rourke refers to a recent study by sociologists at the University of Virginia on happiness within marriage. The study discovered that […]

For many parent writers, it is enough of a challenge to find a spare moment to jot down our thoughts about parenting, our children, our new roles, and our shifting identities. Finding the additional time to research the publishing market, draft query letters, devise a marketing plan and get to a post office to send […]

Another quick post as the children are restless. When I hear about writers making ‘great sacrifices’ for their art such as up holing up in cabins in the woods or hotels while they churn out their novels, I must say it irritates me a little; the real test is trying to write while rocking the […]

Just a brief post from me. We are all cold-ridden over here and we were up until the wee hours in the E.R. with our 6 month old (he’s fine). But I thought that a couple of things that happened this week were worth mention: Judith Warner wrote a thoughtful op-ed piece in the New […]

Thanks to Suburban Turmoil and Miss Cellania, who wrote great posts about their impressions of the book (Miss Cellania even provided photographic proof that she read it!). Suzanne at Mother in Chief writes today about her take on the Literary Mama anthology, and later on look for blog tour posts from Dawn and Megan. And […]