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Literary Mama is seeking poems about fatherhood, and we welcome male voices for our June Father’s Day issue. We seek writing that is about fathers from the child’s perspectives; about the relationships between fathers and mothers and husbands and wives; about husbands as fathers; and by self-defined fathers about fathering and mothering (including lesbian or […]

Thanks to a flurry of submissions, Literary Reflections is closing submissions from April 1st until June 1st while we read through our backlog. If you have an essay you’d like to submit, please send it in now or wait until June. We look forward to reading your work!

Check out Sybil Lockhart (Literary Mama Reviews Editor and Mama in the Middle columnist) book, Mother In The Middle: A Biologist’s Story of Caring for Parent and Child, on Barnes and Noble’s Rave Reviews From Our Readers. Sybil Lockhart, a Berkeley neurobiologist, became a “mother in the middle” when she was pregnant with her second […]

The Pen Parentis Reading Series in New York City presents two notable authors reading from their work each month in a free, two hour event which concludes with an intimate Q&A and signings at the authors’ discretion. Come hear great writers read from their work and share how they balance their parenting lives and writing […]

Read A Cup of Comfort for New Mothers with essays by some of LM’s own moms-Caroline Grant (Editor-in-Chief), Amy Hudock (Founding Co-Editor)and Kristina Riggle (Fiction Co-Editor). There’s a new baby in the house—and it’s not the only one crying. New moms cry happy tears, tired tears, and overwhelmed tears—and that’s when the wisdom, sensitivity, and […]

“Cultivating Your Fearless Writing Voice” Thursdays, April 2 – May 28; 7:00 — 9:30 p.m. Classes meet in North Berkeley; the cost is $250 for the entire nine-week session. About the class: Mindfulness is full attention on the present moment. In this workshop, we’ll explore how to use this practice, both formally and informally, to […]

WHAT: Launch of International Mothers Network – The First Ever Global Consortium Of Motherhood Organizations WHEN: Sunday, March 8th International Women’s Day WHERE: A virtual launch is online, in blog-spheres, youtube, within collective maternal activist communities and websites and in academia across the world with participation by thousands. Walk, Write, Talk, Share, Watch, Blog, Attend […]

In this month’s essay, When Income Envy Comes Home, Valerie Weaver-Zercher writes about the envy and outrage she felt when her author/husband earned an ordinate sum of money for a speaking engagement. Have you ever defined your own writing success in economic terms? Have you ever felt jealous of those who seemed more prolific and […]

The Sophia Institute with Stephanie Hunt (LM columnist of The Great Green Room) Thursday, February 26, 2009 – 7:00PM The Studio, 297 East Bay Street There’s nothing like parenting to push you to the edge of joy and frustration, exhilaration and exhaustion, hope and fear. It requires confronting the essential questions. Join us to consider […]

The editors of Dads in Academia: Male Voices In and Out of the Ivory Tower invite contributions for an interdisciplinary collection of creative nonfiction essays on the rewards and challenges of being both a father and an academic. Much recent discussion about the juxtaposition of parenthood and the academy has focused on the difficulties that […]