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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!

When the news is all doom and gloom, there’s nothing better than escaping into a different world with a great book. These are our staff picks for this month.

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. ~ How top authors balance strong personal relationships with a writing career, Rebekah L Fraser, The Writer Who as a writer hasn’t encountered the struggle of balancing the needs of the self […]

We’re looking for a few mamas to join our team!

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!

How has writing helped you learn to trust yourself, find yourself, or remake yourself?

Check out the latest staff picks!

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 […]

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.

For now, I’m content to stare at the well-used brush, poised for nothing, and for everything.

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 […]