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Congrats to these LM staffers! Kate Hopper, Literary Reflections Editor: “I’m thrilled to announce that my first book, Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers, will be published by Viva Editions in April 2012. Use Your Words is a guide to the art of creative nonfiction for women who want to give written expression […]

Medical residency, Michelle Au reminds us in her funny and moving memoir, This Won’t Hurt a Bit (Grand Central Publishing, 2011) was originally so named because new doctors resided in the hospital. Freed from social and domestic demands, their meals and laundry provided for, young physicians were able to focus with singleminded zeal upon disease […]

Do you keep a journal – or wish you could get one started? Literary Mama wants to help. This week’s prompt encourages you to think about the games you play with your kids.

Author, teacher, and friend of Literary Mama Christina Katz is hosting an amazing book giveaway on her website. Every day in May, she’ll be giving away a book to one person who comments on the day’s post.

Anonymous Research Project On Mothers and Grief: The goal of this study is to enhance the understanding of bereavement and coping among mothers parenting children five years old and younger. The hope is that by better understanding the grief process during motherhood while parenting young children will eventually increase available resources and support for mothers, […]

Do you subscribe to Literary Mama’s E-Zine? The weekly e-zine features our latest selections and highlights timely pieces from our archives. This week’s issue includes one new column (How Does Your Bookshelf Grow?)and four new pieces(fiction by Erika Dreifus and Sally Houtman, creative non-fiction by Becky Tipper, and a book review by Jessica DeVoe Riley). […]

Death is an obvious answer to the question of what it is about medicine and pediatrics in particular that can make its practice difficult, but death itself is simple. It is a single moment, and a moment, no matter how painful the flash of grief that accompanies it, is easy enough to endure. Death is […]

Do you keep a journal – or wish you could get one started? Literary Mama wants to help. Three times a month, I’ll post a writing prompt. Open a notebook and write for 10 minutes. Don’t worry about grammar or punctuation – just write. Then let the writing simmer and your mind wander for awhile. […]

The Sandstar Review is an online literary magazine that seeks unpublished poetry and prose for its inaugural issue. Send up to 6 poems or 15 pages of prose; cover letter and bio appreciated. Simultaneous submissions accepted upon notification of publication elsewhere. Send all work in one document (poetry or prose; no combined submissions) to sandstar.review@gmail.com. […]

Congrats to Literary Mama Editor-in-Chief Caroline Grant: “A history of Literary Mama titled Things No One Will Tell You: Literary Mama Writes Motherhood Outside the Mainstream Media appears in The 21st Century Motherhood Movement, published by Demeter Press and edited by Andrea O’Reilly. And, today, my essay Raising kids in earthquake country was published in […]

Do you keep a journal – or wish you could get one started? Literary Mama wants to help. Three times a month, I’ll post a writing prompt. Open a notebook and write for 10 minutes. Don’t worry about grammar or punctuation – just write. Then let the writing simmer and your mind wander for awhile. […]