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January/February 2023

We are told to sync our lives with a calendar, only beginning at the start of the year, month, or a particular week. But, instead, why not allow ourselves to start when we feel the most ready? It’s liberating to know we can begin any time we decide. Permission isn’t needed. We hope that you give yourself space to pause and read the latest issue from Literary Mama and it pushes you to pen your novel, essay, or short story at the start of January—or even in February.

Letter From the Editor

Creative Nonfiction

  • Forty Years Lost

    By Karen Richards

  • Untethered

    By Lauren Miralle

Fiction

  • Low Visibility

    By Bari Lynn Hein

  • Mama Alone

    By Katia Wish

  • Memory Care

    By Sarah Busching

Literary Reflections

  • Reinventing the Writer While Raising Triplets

    By Samantha Ecker Angerame

Poetry

  • Chicopee Two Boys

    By Lindsay Adkins

  • As Saturn Climbs the Sky

    By Katharine Cristiani

  • Afterthought

    By Arlyn Miller

  • For Leo

    By Jessica Pulver

  • Winter Garden

    By Shilo Niziolek

  • A Mother’s Jet Lag

    By Kathryn Kysar

  • To Touch a Pacifier

    By Jess L Parker

  • Poem for My Unborn Boy at the Ballard Locks One Day Before His Birth

    By Monica Schley

  • My Mother Suggests a Tranquilizer

    By Rebecca Brock

  • Late Postpartum Dream Sequence

    By Christy Lee Barnes

Profiles

  • Chorus of Desire: A Conversation with Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters

    By Jenny Bartoy

  • Far from Ideal: A Conversation with Liz Alterman

    By Sheryl Zedeck Katz

  • Processing Life on the Page: A Conversation with Erin Khar

    By Jennie Burke

  • The Growth Is in the Fear: A Conversation with Julia Haart

    By Holly Rizzuto Palker

  • Undocumented Mothering: A Conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Farfán-Santos

    By Brianna Avenia-Tapper

Reviews

  • A Mother’s Resistance Poetry: A Review of Catastrophic Molting

    By Diane Gottlieb

  • Deconstructing the Meaning of Motherhood: A Review of The Other Mother

    By Juliann “Julz” Savard

  • The Messiness of Motherhood: A Review of The Women Could Fly

    By Sarah Johnson LaBarbera

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