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Last week, writer Felicia Sullivan launched her new radio show, Writers Revealed. This week’s edition was all about family, particularly the notion of the “bad mother.” Felicia led a lively discussion with authors Elissa Schappell (Use Me), Liesel Litzenburger (Now You Love Me), Sabina Murray (A Carnivore’s Inquiry) and Victoria Redel (Loveryboy). Topics included the […]

Violeta Garcia-Mendoza, LM’s Literary Reflections Editorial Assistant, is pleased to announce her 10 week workshop for beginner mama poets. If you’re an expecting, new, birth, step, adoptive or grandmama wanting to learn more about the joys of poetry, as well as create and present your own poems in an encouraging and inspiring workshop format, this […]

Los Angeles writer, playwright, and performer Karen Rizzo wrote the book Things to Bring, S#!t to Do . . . and other inventories of anxiety made entirely out of lists she’s saved since she was a child. 1) The memoir was a 2006 Book Sense Highlight for ‘Fascinating Lives’ 2) Our interview with her is […]

Fiction Co-Editor Suzanne Kamata’s debut novel Losing Kei can now be pre-ordered at Amazon.com. Jill Parker is an American painter living in Japan. Far from the trendy gaijin neighborhoods of downtown Tokyo, she’s settled in a remote seaside village where she makes ends meet as a bar hostess. Her luck changes when she meets Yusuke, […]

Recently, a friend wrote to say that she had spent another sleepless night mourning the loss of her 18-month-old granddaughter. I know my friend would sell her soul for one more glimpse of that innocent face or to hear one more peal of her toddler’s belly laugh. Just a little over a year ago, this […]

Terry Ryan, author of The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, passed away on Wednesday, May 16th at her home in San Francisco after a battle with cancer. Ryan’s mother daughter memoir tells the story of a woman who, “raised ten kids on twenty-five words or less.” The memoir was made into a movie staring Julianne […]

In The MotherHood is the first scripted Web series by moms, for moms and about moms. Conceived by Suave and Sprint, the story will be written in part by YOU, based on your funny, comical and no-holds-barred experiences of motherhood. Colicky babies, toppling toddlers, terrible-two tantrums, kindergartners uttering obscenities (during parent-teacher conferences, of course) — […]

Editors, contributors, and friends of LiteraryMama.com will be reading poetry, fiction, and memoir in honor of mothers at the East Bay Meeting House (coffee shop next to East End Brewery) this Monday night, May 14th, 8:00-9:00. Mama writers are welcome to join us to read their own work during the open mic that starts at […]

Journalist E.J. Graff asks the question, do The Mommy Wars really exist? In the Sunday, April 29, 2007 issue of The Washington Post. Graff says, “The ballyhooed Mommy Wars exist mainly in the minds — and marketing machines — of the media and publishing industry, which have been churning out mom vs. mom news flashes […]

“Celebrating Motherhood as Muse: A Mother’s Day Reading wih the Motherlode Writers” Sunday, May 13th from 4-6pm at Nomad Cafe 6500 Shattuck Ave. Oakland, CA 94609, (510) 595-5344. The Motherlode Writers is a Berkeley-based community of mother-writers who work in a variety of genres, including essay, memoir, poetry, and fiction. For more information, please visit […]

The story site Common Ties has been publishing personal stories to rave reviews since October 2006. Among its themes, Common Ties is seeking stories about mothers and motherhood to be published starting on Mother’s Day. The deadline is May 8. Most of us retain powerful stories about our mothers/stepmothers/female legal guardians. Your mother might have […]