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Our upcoming anthology, Motherhood and Domestic Violence (working title), will explore the complexities of mothering in a violent home through stories, essays, and poems written by survivors. Women with children experience domestic violence on two levels ~ Besides the cruelties inflicted upon themselves, mothers suffer the violence again as they witness the effects on their […]

Fiction coeditor Suzanne Kamata’s new book is now available for preorder! Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering, is an anthology of twenty essays by emerging and established writers on raising children across two or more cultures. It includes fabulous original essays by Literary Mama’s very own Violet Garcia-Mendoza, and also former columnist Kate MacVean […]

Title of Event: The Maternal is Political When: Saturday, January 17, 2009 7:00 PM Location: BookWoman: 5501 N. Lamar Blvd. #A-105, Austin, TX Celebrate the inauguration with a night for unruly mothers (and the people who love them) at Texas’s only feminist bookstore! Featuring Shari MacDonald Strong (editor of The Maternal Is Political and a […]

And get it into print with the help of published personal essayist and Literary Mama columnist Amy Mercer. You’ve seen her by-line in Skirt! Learn how to write your story and how to sell it! Mondays at: 7:00 till 8:30 PM for 6 weeks starting January 26, and March 23 Tuition $60. www.Creative Spark.org

Becoming a mom changes everything; whether your children are toddlers or teens, they provide daily stories and deepen the emotional well from which we write. This ten-week workshop aimed specifically at moms explores how to incorporate our own lives into fiction and memoir we can sell, while moving beyond journaling. Examining everything from short-shorts to […]

Poetry,Prose, and Visual Art Contest for new Mamapalooza Magazine Call for submissions, on the topic “Moms Gone Mad,” of poetry, prose (creative nonfiction or fiction) and visual art (photographs, drawings, paintings). Winners will receive publication in the premiere issue of Mamapalooza Magazine, official arts publication of the Mamapalooza Festival, to be published May 2009. Additionally, […]

The next session of “The Mindful Writer: Cultivating Your Fearless Writing Voice” begins Thursday, January 15, 2009. Classes meet in North Berkeley from 7:00 — 9:30 p.m. and run for ten weeks; the cost is $275 for the entire session. Below is a description of the class as well as comments from former students. If […]

Literary Reflections is pleased to present our featured writing prompt response from December. We asked, “Have you ever received a coveted acceptance letter or honor for your writing? What about a painful rejection? How did it impact you and those around you?” Cara Holman wrote: “Two years ago, hopes high, I posted off a query […]

Read the mommy track’d review of Mama PhD:edited by LM’s Senior Editor, Caroline Grant and Me and My House columnist Elrena Evans. “Mama PhD offers a series of lively personal essays from women who share varied experiences of being both mothers and academics, from struggling to keep down morning sickness while lecturing to a room […]

As the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) has done in the past, we are planning 2-3 panels on topics of mothering/motherhood for the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) 2009 Conference, “DIFFICULT DIALOGUES” November 12-15, 2009 Atlanta, GA. If you are interested in presenting on one these panels, or have a panel you’d like to […]

Former LM Degrees of Freedom columnist, Jennifer Eyre White writes about her wishes for her family this holiday season on her blog, Having Three Kids. Read more… For my youngest child, four-year-old Kirby, I hope that Santa somehow manages to bring you what you most want for Christmas, which apparently is a “Bazookelele,” which I […]