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Please join us… A New Cadence Poetry Series Presents: Sandra Lim, Elline Lipkin & Lauren Eggert-Crowe reading from their works Sunday, September 28th Felix Kulpa Gallery 107 Elm Street(behind Streetlight Records) Santa Cruz, CA 95060 : 7:00pm Admission is free Sandra Lim was born in Seoul, Korea and grew up in the San Francisco Bay […]

Join past and present Literary Mama editors and columnists at San Francisco’s fabulous Lit Crawl. Caroline Grant (Mama at the Movies), Rebecca Kaminsky (Down Will Come Baby), Ericka Lutz (Red Diaper Dharma), and Sophia Raday (Mommy Athens, Daddy Sparta) will be reading at The Beauty Bar, 2299 Mission Street. http://www.litquake.org/the-festival/lit-crawl-2008/

This website’s aim is to gather stories about what we have learned from our mothers, how we feel about it, and how it affects the way we live our lives. These stories will be collected into a book, tentatively titled Wisdom of Our Mothers. Fifty percent of the profits from the book will be donated […]

Have you ever wondered how other women survived their 40s? The new anthology, Knowing Pains, is an honest, humorous, thoughtful and diverse collection of essays by real women who aren’t afraid to tell their age and tell it like it is. Sex, marriage, love, divorce, motherhood, singlehood, passion, obsession. Nothing is off-limits to this group […]

Seeking Children’s Drawings for Publication: Gia Giasullo, who designed the Single Mom Seeking book cover for Seal Press, is working on a book project, and this is a call for submissions for children’s drawings. I have a PDF that I send that further explains the project and how to submit artwork. I am a graphic […]

Literary Reflections is pleased to present our featured writing prompt response from August. We asked “What literary inheritances have you received from your family and/or loved ones? What might you pass on to the next generation?” Jenny Rich wrote: From my father, I learned that sometimes the very act of reading to others is the […]

I never voted for Sarah Palin. Politically, we don’t get along. She wants drilling where I’d like to leave tundra. She doesn’t want kids to hear about condoms, I don’t mind them having accurate information about their own health. She wants one big cathedral ceiling covering schools and churches, while I prefer Christianity to stay […]

On the third night of the Republican National Convention, Sarah Palin finally spoke up. The next morning I woke up to a front-page article in The Boston Globe, announcing that Sarah Palin has reignited the mommy wars. No kidding. Birth plans, breastfeeding, working moms, teenagers and sex: it’s like the national conversation has become one […]

Gail Konop Baker Cancer Is a Bitch Or, I’d Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis) Tuesday, September 30th 7:30PM Kepler’s Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park www.keplers.com Based on her popular Literary Mama column, the author’s raw, moving account of juggling midlife, motherhood, and marriage with a rogue boob. Baker is busy on her […]

is a charity anthology chronicling real-life experiences of infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth and related issues. Please share your story: droll or indifferent, angry or melancholy, we want to hear about every aspect of this often hidden situation. Anonymity assured if requested. Email babyshapedhole@googlemail.com for more information and submission guidelines.

Former LM columnists Jennifer Eyre White (Degrees of Freedom) and Rachel Sarah (Single Mom Seeking) will be reading, along with Marilee Stark and Cynthia Borris,from A Cup of Comfort for Single Mothers at Book Passage in Corte Madera, Sunday, September 7th, at 7pm.