Literary Mama is looking for short (500-900 words), strong, topical, opinionated pieces for the monthly OpEd feature. LM is not a paying market but it is read by some 500,000 parents and writers as well as editors and agents. Click here for submission guidelines. In order to help get those synapses firing, here are the […]
Once again, Literary Mamas have been busy. Literary Mama Columnist and Senior Columns Editor Rachel Sarah’s Flawed and Fabulous Moms is May’s Big Story on BabyCenter.com. In her article, Rachel interviews a number of real-life, imperfect mothers about topics like maternal guilt and the myth of doing it all — a much-needed message at a […]
Part of me really wants to read Caitlin Flanagan’s To Hell With All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife. There has been lots of interesting media coverage such as the review in the The New York Times, Anna Mundow’s interview with the author in The Boston Globe, and Joan Walsh’s review on Salon.com. Even […]
As I wait for my copy of Caitlin Flanagan’s To Hell With All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife to arrive in the mail, and await the publication of my review of Darla Shine’s Happy Housewives book later this month, I’m happy to report on some decidedly non-housewifely news: Literary Mama managing editor Andi […]
Once again, the Literary Mama editors have been busy over the last month. While in Virginia for the VA Festival of the Book, Managing Editor Andi Buchanan, Miriam Peskowitz and Barbara Ehrenreich spoke on a panel about “Women, Family and Work: A Candid Discussion” at the UVA Bookstore. Andi discusses the panel in more detail […]
There has been a lot of chatter recently about Alison Wolf’s Working Girls piece published in Prospect. So I was not at all surprised to see the article reprinted in the Toronto Star. The Star is renowned for its liberal point of view, as outlined in the famed Atkinson Principles to which the paper continues […]
There’s nothing like a pre-nap triangle of PB&J and a glass of milk on the couch with some old friends on Sesame Street. That’s how I spent my afternoons after a hard day at kindergarten, but lately it seems too much to ask for our nation’s kids. These are difficult times, after all, and sacrifices […]
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 […]