Events

A Blog of One’s Own: Scholarly Women on the Web The first event of the 2009-2010 Research Without Borders speaker series Host: The Scholarly Communication Program at Columbia University Free Date: Monday, September 21, 2009 Time: 12:30pm – 2:30pm Location: Lerner 555, Columbia University Morningside Campus, New York, NY For more information email: kp2002@columbia.edu Bloggers […]

Former Literary Mama Editor and columnist Sophia Raday will read from her timely love story – Love in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage – and talk with readers about overcoming differences in marriage and politics THIS THURSDAY! Thursday, 9/10 at Pegasus Books DOWNTOWN BERKELEY, CA 7:30pm. Rumpus called Love in Condition Yellow […]

Thursday, September 24, 2009 * 7 pm * 3rd Annual Mother Words Reading, Open Book, Minneapolis Please join us for the 3rd Annual Mother Words Reading! Kate Hopper, who coordinates the event, will be reading with the wonderful Kate St. Vincent Vogl (Lost and Found: A Memoir of Mothers, North Star Press, 2009) and Vicki […]

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 […]

A panel discussion by womengirlsladies at the Brooklyn Museum June 20th, 2 PM Free Admission When are more men going to care about work/family balance? And what is the role of men in the feminist movement anyway? Join Deborah Siegel, Courtney Martin, Gloria Feldt, and Kristal Brent Zook for a fresh conversation among feminists in […]

For those of you in San Francisco and near by, don’t miss the screening next week of Who Does She Think She Is?, the documentary by Pamela Tanner Boll which profiles several mother-artists; the film will play at the Red Vic Movie House on Haight Street, Wednesday June 10th (2, 7:15, 9:15 PM) and Thursday […]

Tuesday, May 12 Pen Parentis is Proud to Present Joanna Hershon & Joshua Henkin Joanna Hershon is the author of three novels: Swimming, The Outside of August, and The German Bride, which recently had its paperback release. She has been an Edward Albee Fellow, a Writer-in-Residence at Porter-Gaud in Charleston, and has taught in the […]

Join Catherine Orenstein and The Op-Ed Project for an upcoming CHANGE THE WORLD seminar on May 2 in San Francisco. The OpEd Project—featured by The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Katie Couric on CBS News—is an initiative to expand public debate, with an immediate emphasis on enlarging the pool of women who […]

Tuesday, April 14 Pen Parentis is Proud to Present Julie Klam and Arthur Phillips Julie Klam grew up in Bedford, NY. She has written for such publications as “O, The Oprah Magazine,” “Rolling Stone,” “Harper’s Bazaar,” “Cookie,” “Allure,” “Glamour,” and “The New York Times Magazine” and her essay, “I’m Not Fat, I’m Pregnant” is included […]

Tuesday, April 14 Pen Parentis is Proud to Present Julie Klam and Arthur Phillips Julie Klam grew up in Bedford, NY. She has written for such publications as “O, The Oprah Magazine,” “Rolling Stone,” “Harper’s Bazaar,” “Cookie,” “Allure,” “Glamour,” and “The New York Times Magazine” and her essay, “I’m Not Fat, I’m Pregnant” is included […]

The Pen Parentis Reading Series in New York City presents two notable authors reading from their work each month in a free, two hour event which concludes with an intimate Q&A and signings at the authors’ discretion. Come hear great writers read from their work and share how they balance their parenting lives and writing […]