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Have You Been Wanting to Write? Do you love words and stories? Join Alameda writer and author, Laurie Wagner for her weekly Wild Writing Workshops. Wild Writing is a timed process that enables us to get past our cleverness, our intelligence and anything in us that keeps us trapped in looking good. Wild Writing rides […]

The East Bay Monthly is now accepting first-person essays (900 words maximum) from San Francisco Bay Area writers for possible publication this summer. The theme: A hard choice To submit, paste the essay into your email to editorial@themonthly.com and attach as a Word document (“.doc,” not “.docx” file). Please include your name, email address, and […]

A benefit screening of “Who Does She Think She Is?” will be held in Peekskill, New York on May 1st. The documentary, by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll, follows the lives of five female artists who refuse to choose between their art and their families. Through the lens of their lives, the film explores […]

From Colleen Sell’s blog: The Wordsinger The Cup of Comfort book series and REDBOOK Magazine have teamed up to sponsor the Your Love Story Contest. And since I’m the Cup of Comfort series editor, I’m one of the judges. Here’s how it will work: From a pool of 60-70 finalists selected by yours truly, REDBOOK’s […]

*** Ona Gritz, LM Columnist and poet, will be reading with Dan Simpson at the Cornelia Street Cafe on Friday, April 2nd. They will be alternating poems to create a conversation. The event begins with an open reading at 6pm. Cornelia Street Cafe is at 29 Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village — just west of […]

The Friends of the Association for Research on Mothering has begun a fundraising campaign and is looking for volunteers. (Due to budget constraints, the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) is scheduled to close on May 1, 2010.) Linn Baran, Outreach Coordinator, needs 10 volunteers. Work can be done from the comfort of your own […]

Calling all nursing mother-writers: Have you ever sprayed milk across the room at a particularly inopportune moment? Wrangled a nursing toddler in a sticky situation? Traveled across the globe, or even across town, with a nursing babe and surprising results? Do you fancy yourself somewhat of a comedienne and have you lost all modesty through […]

Jessica Berger Gross, who wrote LM’s Passport to Parenting and Mama’s Boy columns from 2005 to 2009, was the subject of Rebecca Walker’s March 15th blog post at The Huffington Post. In celebration of the paperback release of “One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Polyamory, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and […]

Literary Mama is seeking a reviews editor! You will join our two current editors in obtaining review copies and soliciting reviews, and then work closely with writers to hone their reviews. Please send a letter detailing your interest and past editing experience to LMinfo AT literarymama DOT com. Please note that we can’t offer any […]

Due to budget constraints, the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) will close on May 1, 2010. The Toronto, Canada-based organization — and the first international feminist organization devoted to mothering/motherhood — has been affiliated with York University’s Women’s Studies program since its inception in 1998. In 1999, ARM launched the Journal of the Association […]

Reading Period: March 1 – June 15, 2010 Have you been meaning to write about your mother, your father or yourself as a parent? Is there some one in your life who has been like a mother or father to you? It’s on our minds as Mother’s Day and Father’s Day approach and Sheila Bender’s […]