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For today’s prompt, Literary Mama reader Meg Heggen encourages you to let go, and hold on.

In this guest post, reader Julianne Palumbo explores her creative process.

In today’s photo writing prompt, consider conformity.

In today’s guest post, Literary Mama reader suggests that there’s no time like the present to get writing.

Welcome to the Literary Mama Rewind. This month we encourage you to read!

Here’s our February roundup of current Calls for Submissions.

In today’s prompt, reader Becky Holland encourages you to write about a mini-adventure you’ve taken.

The Association of Writer’s and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference will be held in Minneapolis, MN April 8-11, 2015. Literary Mama wants to help you make the most of it! In the months leading up to the conference, and also during it, we’ll share some perspectives and personal experiences. If you’ve been to the conference before, or […]

A new year tends to make me want to revisit Verlyn Klinkenborg’s The Rural Life. Organized by months, January through December, it’s a collection of small meditations on life in the world—a world that those who lived in the United States 100 years ago could recognize, the one that includes pigs, bees, potatoes, horses.

Check out one of these winter conferences and festivals!

In this Literary Reflections writing prompt, we ask you to reflect on the ways the different roles you play in life help or hinder your writing process and how you would change that if you could. We then invite you to share your responses with our editors.