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This month, Literary Mama profiles our brilliant Editor-in-Chief, Amy Hudock. Read about the birth of our magazine and get an insight into the woman who got us all started and keeps us all going. Amy is also currently featured in SKIRT! magazine’s “she’ssoskirt” section. “Motherhood is how I found my voice,” Amy says.

Writer-mamas, how do your political views affect the way you parent? How has motherhood shaped or transformed your politics? How does the act of mothering serve as a form of activism in your life? What important work is being done at the place where motherhood and politics meet? Shari MacDonald Strong is seeking essay submissions […]

“Rapunzel’s Mother” by Carolyn Williams-Noren (currently featured in the Literary Mama poetery department) was discussed on the Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts blog this week as part of a focus on the Rapunzel myth. Congratulations, Carolyn!

Would you like to join our editorial staff? We’re looking for a very part-time Associate Editor — or two — in Columns, as well as a Copyeditor. The ideal AE has experience as a substantive or line editor, while the ideal CE is psychotic about detail and is comfortable writing (and testing) links in HTML. […]

Writer’s Digest wants to hear from you on the topic of “When Parenting and Writing Collide.” Write your best original, unpublished parenting-and-writing story in a 500-word essay and email it to publicity(at)fwpubs.com with “Writer Mama contest” in the subject line. Christina Katz, author of Writer Mama: How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids […]

Balancing fertility treatments with the cost American Public Media is working on a story for public radio looking at the choices couples face when they have trouble having a baby. Have you or someone you know had infertility treatments? How did cost factor into your decision? Have you considered other options? Please share your insights […]

Former LM editor and columnist Sophia Raday is featured in a San Francisco Chronicle article on how military families are coping with the war. As the conflict approaches its four-year anniversary, Sophia’s husband has been deployed to serve in Iraq. Meanwhile, Sophia is at work on a memoir based on her LM columns. Look for […]

When my middle son Avery was diagnosed with Down syndrome at five days old, my Dad said, “Ah, well. He’ll be one of the better ones. He’ll be the best.” It felt like a kindness, and I remember being buoyed by the thought. He may have Down syndrome, but by God, he’ll still be the […]

How to Fit a Car Seat on a Camel, Edited by Sarah Franklin To be published by Seal Press, Spring 2008 From the submission guidelines: “How to Fit a Car Seat on a Camel is a collection of humorous essays by women. Whether it’s being stuck on the tarmac for 15 hours with Dora the […]

If you’re in the Washington D.C. area, please join us for a champagne toast and reading to celebrate the launch of Not What I Expected: The Unpredictable Road from Womanhood to Motherhood. The anothology includes a story by LM Fiction Editor Suzanne Kamata, and a piece by Donna Vitucci that originally appeared in Literary Mama. […]

LM Columnist Rachel Sarah will be reading from her book Single Mom Seeking: Playdates, Blind Dates, and Other Dispatches from the Dating World at two locations in Seattle: March 21, 2007, 7 p.m. University Bookstore 4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA March 22, 2007, 7 p.m. Third Place Books 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest […]