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damselfly press, an online literary journal for women is pleased to announce the publication of our twelfth issue and call for submissions for the thirteenth issue. We are seeking electronic submissions of original fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by female writers only slated for online publication in October 2010. As always, we welcome a myriad of […]

Check out LM’s Literary Reflections Editor Kate Hopper’s interview with Debra Gwartney, author of Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love, one of 30 finalists for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Juggling career, motherhood and family life is clearly a hot button topic for many women today. This anthology is different from other “motherhood” books out there today in a number of ways: 1) As an anthology of personal essays, this book features the voices of real women, not just snippets from interviews or summaries of […]

Motherhood is an ever-present theme in the background of Falling Apart in One Piece: One Optimist’s Journey Through the Hell of Divorce, but the most vibrant thread is personal truth.

Masha Hamilton has been named this year’s recipient of the Women’s National Book Association WNBA Award, which is presented to “a living American woman who derives part or all of her income from books and allied arts, and who has done meritorious work in the world of books beyond the duties or responsibilities of her […]

Ever have a day when your writing life and your raising-young-children life don’t get along? You write furiously during the kids’ naps times but the manuscript doesn’t feel right … You wonder if you’ll ever finish … Check out LM Fiction Co-Editor Kristina Riggle’s newest blog post at the Red Room. Her first novel is […]

Kate Haas, LM’s Creative Nonfiction Co-Editor writes: “For a few days last fall, I thought my life was about to head down the trajectory of one of those tragic cancer books I’ve always found so compelling. Or perhaps I was just freaking out. It didn’t occur to me that a third, much stranger, possibility existed. […]

June 29, 2010. New York. Today, on the one-year anniversary of She Writes founders Kamy Wicoff and Deborah Siegel will announce The Passion Project, a contest open to an emerging author and member of She Writes with a nonfiction book project in the works. The Passion Project enables a hand-picked A-team of writing and publishing […]

Join NYWIFT and Women Make Movies for two films that question the price of child-rearing in North America . LATCHING ON, by Katja Esson, director of the Academy Award-nominated FERRY TALES, explores the politics of breastfeeding in the US . After Esson’s sister gave birth in Germany , she was able to breastfeed her baby […]

In May, we asked, “If you could profile your mother, what salient features would you include — her smell; her habits; her laugh? What did you love about her? What did you hate? What part of her is within you and obvious when you parent your own children?” Margaret Hundley Parker wrote: When I was […]

From LM’s Essential Reading list for Father’s Day: ANDREA RICHESIN, MIKE ADAMICK, NICK TAYLOR, and ROBERT WILDER present What I Would Tell Her: 28 Devoted Dads on Bringing Up, Holding On To and Letting Go of Their Daughters. Location: Books Inc. in Laurel Village 3515 California Street San Francisco, California 94118