Calls for Submissions – February 2020
The first Wednesday of every month Literary Mama shares a list of current calls for submissions. Good luck sending your work out into the world!
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Writing Prompt: Literary Reflections
How has writing helped you learn to trust yourself, find yourself, or remake yourself?
Now Reading: January 2020
Check out the latest staff picks!
Writerly Roundup – January 2020
Our Writerly Roundup blog series features a curated collection of articles on the craft of writing and the creative life that we don’t want you to miss. ~ I went to school for and built the majority of my career in the concepts of marketing. I was young, and thought it sounded “fun”. Now? Well, let’s just […]
Writing Prompt Reader Response
I don’t remember our final to-nowhere ride, but I knew we were moving away and that we might never live in Brooklyn again.
Writing Prompt Reader Response
For now, I’m content to stare at the well-used brush, poised for nothing, and for everything.
Calls for Submissions – January 2020
Each month Literary Mama shares a list of current calls for submissions. Good luck sending your work out into the world! LITERARY MAMA OPPORTUNITIES Fiction The Fiction department at Literary Mama seeks fiction under 5,000 words about all aspects of motherhood. We look for pieces with strong narrative structure, great characters, interesting settings, beautiful language, and complicated […]
Now Reading: December 2019
We have a mixed bag of recommendations including timeless classics and a modern anthology in this month’s Now Reading post.
Calls for Submissions – December 2019
Each month Literary Mama shares a list of current calls for submissions. Good luck sending your work out into the world! LITERARY MAMA OPPORTUNITIES Fiction The Fiction department at Literary Mama seeks fiction under 5,000 words about all aspects of motherhood. We look for pieces with strong narrative structure, great characters, interesting settings, beautiful language, and complicated […]
Writing Prompt: Literary Reflections
One of the joys of parenting is celebrating our children’s firsts—first smile, first tooth, first day of school.
A Giving Tuesday Letter
More than a year ago, when I helped clean out my parents’ home, I discovered a letter my mother had kept for 27 years. It was dated December, 1991, the same year I began my university studies, and signed by the instructor of a writing course my mother had taken at the local community college. […]