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We asked the contributors to Labor of Love: A Literary Mama Anthology, to share thoughts about their writing process, their inspiration, or their work in the book. We’ll share those musings here on the Literary Mama blog.

We asked the contributors to Labor of Love: A Literary Mama Anthology, to share thoughts about their writing process, their inspiration, or their work in the book. We’ll share those musings here on the Literary Mama blog.

We asked the contributors to Labor of Love: A Literary Mama Anthology, to share thoughts about their writing process, their inspiration, or their work in the book. We’ll share those musings here on the Literary Mama blog.

We asked the contributors to Labor of Love: A Literary Mama Anthology, to share thoughts about their writing process, their inspiration, or their work in the book. We’ll share those musings here on the Literary Mama blog.

We asked the contributors to Labor of Love: A Literary Mama Anthology, to share thoughts about their writing process, their inspiration, or their work in the book. We’ll share those musings here on the Literary Mama blog.

We asked the contributors to Labor of Love: A Literary Mama Anthology, to share thoughts about their writing process, their inspiration, or their work in the book. We’ll share those musings here on the Literary Mama blog.

We asked the contributors to Labor of Love: A Literary Mama Anthology, to share thoughts about their writing process, their inspiration, or their work in the book. We’ll share those musings here on the Literary Mama blog.

We know the Barbie movie made a big impression on Literary Mamas, so we wanted to share an opportunity with you: “Barbenheimer Convergence”: Moneymaker or (Feminist) Intervention? Co-editors: Carolyn Jacobs, Anna Young and Karen A. Ritzenhoff (Central Connecticut State University) We are seeking submissions for an anthology about the intersection of Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023) […]

My Barbie story begins on a quiet tree-lined neighborhood in Queens, New York in the late 1970s. My younger sister and I played with the neighborhood girls who had a real Barbie collection with the frills. They might have had the Dream house. I know we did not.  My parents were immigrants from India; at […]

When I signed my contract with the publisher of Typecast, I was thrilled. Having worked as a book publicist, I was under no illusion that having my book published meant that anyone would read it. Over the past twenty-five years, online bookselling and the advent of new publishing options have transformed the industry, leading to […]

Dear Baby Boy, Carrying you unborn into the cinema to watch Barbie, I was captured by the atmosphere of anticipation and adoration in the audience. Knowing nothing about the film, I imagined I was there to be entertained, take the weight off my pregnant feet, and leave behind reality for an afternoon. How naïve I […]