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Come hear Literary Mama senior editor Shari MacDonald Strong and fellow contributors read from the new anthology The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers a the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change. So far, readings are scheduled at the following locations. Mark your calendar. Come out and join us. We’d love to see you! May 29, […]

What happens when your child doesn’t speak your native language? Should you invite your German-American in-laws to your Diwali celebration? How can you raise a child with two cultures without fracturing his/her identity? In our increasingly global society, more and more mothers are facing questions such as these. In order to explore these issues, I’m […]

Susan Ito writes in her blog: Reading, Writing, Living about making that step that is on many of our “to-do” lists but gets pushed back behind all the other necessary parts of the day…writing a will. Susan writes, The thing that really undid me, though, was this: naming someone to make medical decisions for ME, […]

Literary Reflections is pleased to present our featured writing prompt response for May. We asked “How do you handle interruptions? How do you they affect your material? Have any interruptions become or led to inspirations?” Sarah Yost wrote: “This is maybe the 5th time I’ve started this piece, approaching it from the beginning, middle, a […]

LM columnist Libby Gruner and six other women are blogging at InsideHigherEd.com on the subject of combining family life with a career in higher education. The writers are all contributors to the anthology, Mama, PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life, edited by LM columnists Elrena Evans and Caroline Grant. The weekly blog rotation […]

Writing Motherhood, at once creative writing manual and mothering memoir, inspires women to mine their everyday lives for stories to preserve and pass on. Treat yourself to a Mother’s Day gift and join author Lisa Garrigues for an experience that will energize your spirit and ignite your pen. For mothers of all ages and writers […]

Traveling Mamas Anthology TravelingMamas.com is in search of true uplifting, funny, inspirational, and touching stories with a travel theme for an upcoming anthology series. Possible themes may include family travel, romantic escapes, girlfriend getaways, and solo trips. We’re looking for stories that inspire us, force us to laugh out loud or make us reach for […]

Parting From LM Columns Editor, Alissa McElreath’s blog, World Of One Thousand Different Things There’s a beautiful, old cemetery I pass every day on my way in and out of work. It’s sprawling, and green, and dotted with the mottled gray and, now and again, sharp white, of the tombstones and graveside monuments. It has […]

For immediate release Contact: Caroline Grant cmgrant@speakeasy.org Spend Mother’s Day Month with Literary Mama! Writer’s Digest pick: One of 101 Best Web Sites for Writers Forbes pick: Best of the Web 2006 Literary Mama celebrates Mother’s Day all month long with fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, essays, author profiles, and book reviews. This month, we’re also […]

Literary Reflections is pleased to announce April’s featured writing prompt Selected Shorts. We had a record 11 prompt submissions to our April question, which was “Do you write “in your head” as you go about your daily tasks? If so, describe your thought process. If not, reflect on how you generate writing ideas and fit […]

Suzanne Edison’s, The Moth-Eaten World, originally published in Literary Mama, will be included in the anthology, Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years. The Moth-Eaten World by Suzanne Edison (for my daughter, at four) If your eyes were like tea leaves instead of roasted coffee beans, oily brown, thick with residue, or like […]