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July/August 2023

Literary Mama offers an encouraging reminder that our identities—as parents, as writers, as readers, as local or global contributors of whatever sort—aren’t predicated on incessant activity, or a checklist of accomplishments, or a certain definition of worthiness. Whatever this season is like for you, we hope you’ll find something heartening here to see you through to the next.

Letter From the Editor

Creative Nonfiction

  • Drowning in the Fog

    By Laura Spencer

  • No Man’s Land

    By Marin Smith

  • A Time to Build

    By Elena Garfield

Fiction

  • Opting for Illusions

    By Carrie Esposito

  • Symptoms

    By Shayla Frandsen

Poetry

  • You thought you’d show them

    By Ella Kurz

  • Selkie Mother

    By Meg Yardley

  • Single Moms Have No Time for Birdwatching: Ask Me How I Know

    By Laurie Klein

  • Rivers of Mitochondria

    By Yeva Johnson

  • Statistics

    By Marissa Glover

  • Four Weeks

    By Ariel Kaplowitz Hahn

  • Without Reservation

    By Barbara Rockman

  • Arrivals Gate

    By Vanessa Stirling

  • Wildflower

    By Jen Fitzgerald

Profiles

  • Angels of Instagram: A Conversation with Sara Petersen

    By Brianna Avenia-Tapper

  • Collector of Details: A Conversation with Audrey Burges

    By Jill Witty

  • Expect the Miracle: A Conversation with Alle C. Hall

    By Tess Clarkson

  • It’s Not Selfish, It’s Self-full: A Conversation with Estelle Erasmus

    By Holly Rizzuto Palker

  • Race and the American Dream: A Conversation with Vibhuti Jain

    By Jessica Kunkler

  • Trust That You Are Always Writing: A Conversation with Poet and Muse Tania Pryputniewicz

    By Rebecca Jane

Reviews

  • Motherhood as Black, Queer World-Building: A Review of Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Black Motherhood and Black Resistance

    By Dara Mathis

  • Motherhood Unshorn: A Review of Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility

    By Ellen Elder

  • The Roots of Mama Rage: A Review of Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre

    By Amanda Fields

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