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One of our Literary Mamas has lost her son. Katie Granju, a former editor for Literary Mama, watched her 18-year-old son, Henry, die in intensive care Monday. Katie has faced the trauma with characteristic transparency – revealing what others might want to hide. Despite knowing the criticism she would face, she went public with the […]

Former LM columnist Sophia Raday will be reading from her memoir, Love in Condition Yellow at: Orinda Books, Orinda, CA Thursday, June 03, 4:00 Village View Court (925) 254-7606 Read Sophia’s column Mommy Athens: Daddy Sparta And LM’s profile: “A Conversation with Sophia Raday” As well as a review of her Memoir: Love in Condition […]

What’s a mom to do when her child says, “High school isn’t working for me”? “Trust her,” says LM columnist, Erika Lutz. Read Lutz’s opinion piece here.

Museum of Accidents by Rachel Zucker Wave Books 2009 A Review by Marjorie Tesser Rachel Zucker’s work explores her individual consciousness in dispassionate, reporter-like detail; the others who people her poems (family, colleagues, fellow- victims of a health situation) are presented more sketchily. Her tone is conversational; you can almost picture her sitting across from […]

Read Founding Editor Amy Hudock’s interview with The Post and Courier’s Charleston Scene: Writing is all about play and experiments, and is a bit wild and untamed. Editing is all about shaping and organizing the play, making the “child” fit for polite society. Writing is the child in me, and editing is the mother. Read […]

undefined magazine wants to publish you in our summer reader Deadline for submissions June 7 Would you like to see your words on the pages of South Carolina’s premiere arts magazine? Of course you would. That’s why undefined magazine is holding its first creative writing competition with awards for poetry, short stories, and flash fiction. […]

Suzanne Kamata, Fiction Co-editor: I’m excited to report that my latest anthology, Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering has just been named a finalist for the 2010 IPPY Awards in the Multicultural Nonfiction category. Editor’s Note: It won the bronze! I also noted that LM fiction contributor Mary Aker‘s collection “Women Up On Blocks” […]

In April, we asked the question: “Before children, what fantasies did you construct about childbirth and parenting? How did you come to terms with the disparity between your dreams and reality?” This month, we had two exquisite submissions. The following is the second submission we selected. Alyssa Westring wrote: In theory, I’m an expert at […]

Cara Holman is the winner of The Threadbare Heart Mother’s Day Contest, weighing in with an unusual mother-daughter pair, one that made me want to look for this Louisa May Alcott novel I’ve never read: My first thought was to scour Jane Austen for mother-daughter pairs. But Emma and Anne’s mothers died before the stories […]

No academic examination of motherhood existed when Dr. Andrea O’Reilly was earning her PhD in English, so she decided to design a course. This effort led to the establishment of the Association for Research on Mothering [now known as Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI)], an academic journal and a publishing house dedicated […]

The Hand That First Held Mine, the latest novel by Irish writer Maggie O’Farrell (The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox), is about two women born generations apart. The first, Lexie Sinclair, leaves her conservative family for the life of a bohemian in post-war London after meeting the love of her life over a garden hedge. […]