We know the Barbie movie made a big impression on Literary Mamas, so we wanted to share an opportunity with you: “Barbenheimer Convergence”: Moneymaker or (Feminist) Intervention? Co-editors: Carolyn Jacobs, Anna Young and Karen A. Ritzenhoff (Central Connecticut State University) We are seeking submissions for an anthology about the intersection of Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023) […]
Dear Baby Boy, Carrying you unborn into the cinema to watch Barbie, I was captured by the atmosphere of anticipation and adoration in the audience. Knowing nothing about the film, I imagined I was there to be entertained, take the weight off my pregnant feet, and leave behind reality for an afternoon. How naïve I […]
I have the cluttered mind of a writer. Words and ideas swirl in my head like autumn leaves caught in a wind tunnel. Post-it® notes adorn every nook and cranny in my office, and my desktop looks like Swiss cheese cluttered with dozens of folders for various writing projects like “Finished blogs,” “Essays in the […]
On March 1919, shortly after publishing her first novel, The Voyage Out, famed author Virginia Woolf wrote in her Writer’s Diary, “Is the time coming when I can endure to read my writing in print without blushing—shivering and wishing to take cover?” I am no Virginia Woolf, but at 1:00 a.m. on March 15th, 2023, struggling […]
Welcome to our newest blog series: Where Are They Now? In this series, our editors interview past Literary Mama contributors to see what they’ve accomplished since publishing in LM and talk about their writing journeys. This week, Senior Editor Christina Consolino connected with Teri Rizvi, whose writing was published by Literary Mama in 2017. Teri’s collection of […]