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Our friends at Pen Parentis are offering a writing fellowship: In addition to a full year of promotion, a $1000 prize will be presented to the Pen Parentis Writing Fellow at a public reading of the winning work of fiction in a stunning literary location on September 14, 2010 in Manhattan. Entrants must be the […]

Have you had a chance to read over Cassie Premo Steele’s latest installment of Birthing the Mother Writer column? Cassie puts a modern/feminist spin on Sleeping Beauty, and invites readers to do the same with their favorite classic fairy tale: I invite you to explore the psychological depth that fairy tales can reveal by writing […]

Have you read our Essential Reading List of read-aloud choices and now want more? Here are the books editor-in-chief Caroline Grant shared recently on San Francisco’s View from the Bay: LitWorld Founder Pam Allyn’s guide to books to read with your kids is What To Read When: The Books and Stories to Read with Your […]

New from All Things That Matter Press — Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages, compiled and edited by Carol Smallwood and Cynthia Brackett-Vincent. This unique collection includes over fifty articles by more than thirty-five diverse American women who revisit, celebrate, and share defining moments in their lives. Readers will see the universal in milestones of […]

3 March 2010 6 – 7 PM Join Caroline Grant, Lisa Harper, and Nicki Richesin in a bedtime story reading for kids of all ages. We’ll be reading some new titles, including Cynthia Rylant’s All in a Day; Peter Brown’s The Curious Garden; and Liz Garton Scanlon’s All the World, plus some old favorites! Bring […]

The National Education Association is engaged in an ambitious project to produce an important new book on the past, present, and future of the American teaching profession and currently seeks contributions from classroom teachers across the nation. Surveys and statistical reports are often used to tell stories about America’s public school teachers, and the forthcoming […]

The second annual SC Artists’ Commission Retreat will be held in Columbia, SC and it promises to be even better than last year! No matter your level of creativity, this retreat will engage, inspire, and kickstart you to go where you are dreaming of going. And it’s only $45, meals included! Here’s the link: SC […]

at Think Coffee (1 Bleecker at Bowery, 6 train to Bleeker or BDFV to Broadway/Lafayette) In Honor of World Read Aloud Day March 3rd, 8pm Free of charge On Wednesday, March 3 at 8:00 pm, Literal Latte will be have four wonderful writers reading aloud at Think Coffee. The reading coincides with World Read Aloud […]

Literary Mama is working with LitWorld to celebrate World Read Aloud Day, an event organized to celebrate and encourage reading aloud and to bring attention to the importance of literacy across all countries. Check back for more information on events and readings.

Subject: Call for Submissions: Anthology of Women’s Stories of Becoming The University of Nebraska Women’s Center is publishing the anthology Becoming, edited by Jill McCabe Johnson. The editors seek personal narratives and a small number of poems relaying the story of a formative experience that helped shape the woman you’ve become. Please send one personal […]

Chase the winter blues away and reconnect with your inner author Tuesday, February 9th for a night of readings and conversation with three extraordinary writers: Rachel Sherman, Mark Shulman, and a special guest all the way in from New Mexico — Meg Mullins. Have a glass of wine in the exclusive Libertine Library bar, be […]