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CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Mothering, Motherhood and Education featuring an embedded conference on Motherhood Studies: Developing and Disseminating a New Academic Discipline for a New Century October 20-23, 2011, Toronto, ON, Canada Deadline for abstracts: April 1, 2011! We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, workers, artists, mothers and others who work or […]

Call for essays: Breadwinning Broads: stories from women who bring home most (or even all) of the bacon The topic of wives out-earning their husbands has received a lot of attention recently. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a third of all wives earn more than their husbands (2003). The Breadwinning Broads project wants […]

Sara Ruddick–philosopher, writer, peace activist, mothering theorist and legend–has died. Ruddick, a professor of philosophy and women’s studies for nearly 40 years at the New School for Social Research, developed an approach to child-rearing that shifted the focus away from motherhood as a social institution or biological imperative and toward the day-to-day activities of raising […]

Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of Muslim Women Announcing a call for non-fiction/memoir/personal stories by American Muslim women on the search for love. These stories will be published in a book, Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women, by Soft Skull Press in February 2012. WHY A BOOK ABOUT THE SEARCH […]

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. […]

Literary Mama is looking for a part-time (4-6 hours/week) software guru to help keep our site up-to-date. Technical Requirements – Experience with web design (HTML, CSS) – Intimate knowledge of Movable Type (versions 4.3 and 5.0) and/or WordPress (versions 3.0 and up) – familiarity with all publishing features (entries, pages, categories, users) – experience installing […]

Suzanne Kamata, Literary Mama’s Fiction Editor, was wondering what she could do to help Japan’s evacuees. Read about it here.

Whenever I case a new location, look at friends’ vacation photos, or watch travelogues, I wonder about wheelchair accessibility. I wondered the same thing on Friday afternoon, watching disaster coverage on TV with my eleven-year-old daughter in Japan. Read more of Suzanne Kamata’s story here: Beacon Broadside.

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. […]

CALL FOR PAPERS Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection on MENNONITE MOTHERING Co-Editors: Rachel Epp Buller and Kerry Fast Publication Date: 2012/2013 Deadline for abstracts: May 31, 2011! This collection of scholarly essays will explore the connections between mothering / motherhood and Mennonite religion and culture, broadly defined. There are thriving Mennonite […]

The Sustainable Arts Foundation, a non-profit supporting artists and writers with families, is now accepting applications for 2011 awards. Find out more and apply at http://www.sustainableartsfoundation.org.