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Fellow LM editor Caroline Grant sent me a link to this recent NYT article about Cathy Orenstein teaching women to write op-eds. My favorite quote? “I try to convey the idea that there is a responsibility,” she said. “Op-ed pages are so enormously powerful. It’s one of the few places open to the public. Where […]

Literary Mama Fiction Editor, Suzanne Kamata, will be reading from her forthcoming novel Losing Kei at the Portugalia Bar and Grill in Osaka, Japan, Sunday night, March 18. This event is an offshoot of the popular Boston reading series, Four Stories. But don’t worry if you can’t make it to Osaka. You can download and […]

Editor-in-Chief Amy Hudock and columnist Rachel Sarah have essays appearing in Single State of the Union, which has just been published by Seal Press. Way to go!

Editor and Columnist Caroline Grant has a post on MomsRising called Ice Cream and Consciousness-Raising. MomsRising is getting a lot of attention these days; see the recent article about it in The New York Times.

Literary Mama contributor Cindy Dyson announces the launch of Book Club Works, a grassroots, adoption-style program that matches the thousands of book clubs across the country with the thousands of literacy teachers, activists and volunteers in order to bring the transforming power of books to the people who need it most. For literacy workers Book […]

Andy Garcia is the perfect man for me. He is charming, handsome, intelligent, sexy as all hell, and completely unavailable. Though I once saw him walk past as I sat drinking coffee in Café Trieste in San Francisco, I know that is the closest he will ever get to me. And I have to admit, […]

Susan Ito’s January Parent Lit Writing Workshop is off to a terrific start, with fantastic discussions, a wonderful bonding community of parent writers, and of course, great writing. The next session (April 1-June 3) is now open for registration. Find out more and register here. Anyone who has had a child knows that parenting is […]

Not long ago, I was discussing the DaiShin WolfHawk case with some friends, most of whom, like me, are mothers of young children. All of them applauded Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania for removing Melissa and DaiShin’s child a mere 24 hours after he was born. They felt that the father’s 20-year-old rape conviction and presence on […]

Single Mom Seeking: Playdates, Blind Dates and Other Dispatches from the Dating World by Rachel Sarah ISBN#1580051669 published by Seal Press Review by Shari Maser I’ve never been a single mother, and I haven’t been on a date in over seventeen years. So I was quite wary of Single Mom Seeking: Playdates, Blind Dates and […]

Oh, you lucky New Yorkers! If you’re in New York City, please come out and hear Single Mom Seeking LITERARY MAMA columnist Rachel Sarah at one of these events: In The Flesh Reading Series “Erotic Memoir Night” Wednesday, January 17th 8 p.m. In the Flesh is a monthly reading series to get you hot and […]

The entire Literary Mama community mourns the passing of Tillie Olsen, who died on New Year’s Day at age 94. She was — and is — a hero to women writers everywhere, especially to those of us who try every moment of every day to balance writing with motherhood. Lengthier and more formal obituaries can […]