Events

Chase the winter blues away and reconnect with your inner author Tuesday, February 9th for a night of readings and conversation with three extraordinary writers: Rachel Sherman, Mark Shulman, and a special guest all the way in from New Mexico — Meg Mullins. Have a glass of wine in the exclusive Libertine Library bar, be […]

Come to a preview screening/potluck dinner/discussion/fundraiser for independent mom filmmaker Deirdre Fishel, who is raising funds to complete her documentary, Sperm Donor X. Donations gratefully accepted, but not required; come for the movie, stay for the discussion! Here is Deirdre’s story: I began filming Sperm Donor X at 40, when I found myself at a […]

Sunday, January 31st 1-4PM Join Literary Mama’s “Birthing the Mother Writer” columnist, Cassie Premo Steele, an award-winning writer and creativity coach, for a lovely afternoon of journaling, meditation, walks in the woods, and homemade baked goods and tea by the fire at a private home on 10 beautiful acres in central South Carolina. Cost is […]

Join award-winning writer and teacher, Kate Hopper, for a weekend retreat for mother-writers. We’ll write, share our writing, discuss challenges with craft, and have time to connect with other mother writers in the luxury and quiet of Faith’s Lodge. Group meetings and individual conferences with Kate will help support you as you delve more deeply […]

Editor-in-chief Caroline Grant will be on ABC-7’s View from the Bay, Wednesday January 6th, sharing our editors’ and columnists’ picks for favorite children’s books. Check out the list and take it to your favorite local bookstore or library so that you can share these books with the kids you love.

Please join us for our December 8 reading and fundraising event celebrating an amazing first year! December 8 brings three, that’s right 3 acclaimed writers to the Libertine Library: Sam Apple, Amy Sohn, and Jeffrey Rotter. All are great writers who will share their work, wit, and tales from the trenches of writing while simultaneously […]

Join us Tuesday, November 10th for a night of great fiction with Joanna Smith Rakoff, celebrated author of A FORTUNATE AGE and singer-songwriter/novelist/radio personality Stewart Lewis. Have a glass of wine in our exclusive Pen Parentis Upstairs Library bar, be part of a literary movement, and support contemporary writers who are also parents. Joanna Smith […]

Former Literary Mama columnist Sophia Raday, who is profiled this month, will read from her memoir, Love in Condition Yellow, THIS SATURDAY October 10th from 12-1, as part of Litquake, San Francisco’s annual literary festival. She will join other memoirists, Andy Raskin, Canyon Sam, Genine Lentine, Holly Payne, and Steven Winn for an hour panel, […]

The University of Rochester October 9, 1:15-2:30 PM Join Literary Mama columnist and Mama, PhD coeditor Elrena Evans in conversation with author Judith Warner and filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll at the University of Rochester this Friday, October 9th. Location: Interfaith Chapel Room: Sanctuary Cost: FREE Judith Warner is the author of several best-selling works, including […]

Literary Mama friend and mama-writer, Christina Katz, is once again running her Writer Mama Back-to-School Giveaway where she gives away one book or magazine subscription every day in September. On September 25th, stop by for a chance at a big gift: a trio of anthologies edited by Literary Mama editors Shari MacDonald Strong, Amy Hudock […]

You’re invited! Come join in a lively local conversation about mothers, families and the women’s movement. The Hillside Club in Berkeley is hosting the event with MomsRising’s co-founder Joan Blades leading the conversation. WHAT: “Mothers, Family, and the Women’s Movement in the 21st Century” WHERE: Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley CA 94709 WHEN: Sunday, […]