Literary Mama

 New Book Recommendation! Zibby Owens’ newest memoir, Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, is slated for publication in July 2022, and we can’t wait to read it. She writes that the book is “a deeply personal memoir about one woman’s journey to finding her voice and rewriting her story by the creator and […]

In an effort to help offset the systematic inequality in the literary industry, Amanda Jaros will offer editorial feedback to people who donate to nonprofit organizations that support people traditionally underrepresented or marginalized.

Thank you for participating in our “Mama And” prompt series! We had wonderful submissions for our month of running in March. See our favorite contributions below! Our prompt for April is: Mama And Laughter Whether it’s flash fiction, micro-story, drabble, found or short poetry, or even art, each prompt will be an invitation to share […]

Literary Mama is proud to support the Erma Bombeck Writer’s Workshop, which will take place October 20–22, 2022, in Dayton, Ohio. Seats are still available for this in-person workshop, and there’s a virtual option too. From their website: “The Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop has been dubbed the ‘Woodstock of Humor.’ Another writer describes it as […]

Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we’ll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts each month. If there is a ❤️ next to a call, that means the magazine or press is specifically looking for mother writers. We ❤️ all our Mamas! Literary Mama is always open […]

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 talked with Erika Dreifus, whose fiction was published in Literary Mama in 2011. To read more […]

“Try to recapture that childlike state, when you wrote just for the sake of it, without concern for whether anyone outside of yourself will like it, publish it, or favorably review it. Write down every little idea that comes to you, no matter how silly it may seem, even if you don’t know what you […]

Thank you for participating in our “Mama And” prompt series! We had wonderful submissions for our mischievous month in February. See our favorite contributions below! Our prompt for March is: Mama And Running Whether it’s flash fiction, micro-story, drabble, found or short poetry, or even art, each prompt will be an invitation to share a […]

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 and Poetry Editor Libby Maxey caught up with Susannah Q. Pratt, whose third Literary Mama essay will appear […]

“Read authors you enjoy and those that challenge you. Engage with a writing community, in person or virtually — classes, critique groups, local events, social media or coffee with a writer friend. This, more than anything, will help you hone your craft. Be adventurous with medium and form. If you usually write by longhand, compose […]

Congratulations to these Literary Mama Staff members! ~~~~~ Literary Reflection Editor Kimberly Lee’s creative nonfiction appeared in the anthologies I Am Woman: Expressions of Black Womanhood in America and Rearing in the Rearview by Quillkeepers Press. Other writing was published in Fresh Ink, Mom Egg Review, and on the blogs of Amherst Writers & Artists and the Transformative Language Arts Network. Kimberly’s review of Motherhood: Facing & Finding Yourself appeared […]