Literary Mama

Congrats to these LM staffers! Amy Stockwell Mercer, Columnist (Chronic Mama) and Blog Co-Editor: “I’ve signed my book deal with Demos Health! I’ll be writing a book about women and diabetes, tentatively titled, The Diabetes Handbook for Women: Authentic Advice on Everything from Eating to Dating to Motherhood.” Kristina Riggle, Fiction Co-Editor: “My second novel, […]

Kate Haas, LM’s Creative Nonfiction Co-Editor writes: “For a few days last fall, I thought my life was about to head down the trajectory of one of those tragic cancer books I’ve always found so compelling. Or perhaps I was just freaking out. It didn’t occur to me that a third, much stranger, possibility existed. […]

From LM’s Essential Reading list for Father’s Day: ANDREA RICHESIN, MIKE ADAMICK, NICK TAYLOR, and ROBERT WILDER present What I Would Tell Her: 28 Devoted Dads on Bringing Up, Holding On To and Letting Go of Their Daughters. Location: Books Inc. in Laurel Village 3515 California Street San Francisco, California 94118

Former LM columnist Sophia Raday will be reading from her memoir, Love in Condition Yellow at: Orinda Books, Orinda, CA Thursday, June 03, 4:00 Village View Court (925) 254-7606 Read Sophia’s column Mommy Athens: Daddy Sparta And LM’s profile: “A Conversation with Sophia Raday” As well as a review of her Memoir: Love in Condition […]

Read Founding Editor Amy Hudock’s interview with The Post and Courier’s Charleston Scene: Writing is all about play and experiments, and is a bit wild and untamed. Editing is all about shaping and organizing the play, making the “child” fit for polite society. Writing is the child in me, and editing is the mother. Read […]

Suzanne Kamata, Fiction Co-editor: I’m excited to report that my latest anthology, Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering has just been named a finalist for the 2010 IPPY Awards in the Multicultural Nonfiction category. Editor’s Note: It won the bronze! I also noted that LM fiction contributor Mary Aker‘s collection “Women Up On Blocks” […]

Check out these new LM bookmarks. Print them out on heavy weight paper, slice them up, and distribute them. And don’t forget about our other LM gear: t-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, kids clothing, books, bags and other “fun stuff.” Any of these items would be a great tribute to Mother’s Day!

LiteraryMama contributor Amy Watkins is launching a free, weekly poetry podcast and wants submissions of smart, accessible poems that sound great out loud. To submit, email three poems along with a “this is what I was thinking” type artist’s statement to submissions@redlionsq.com. Find out more and sign up for the podcast at http://www.redlionsq.com or search […]

Kudos to these LM editors on their recent publications: Susan Ito, Creative Nonfiction Editor and Columnist: My piece, “Table for Five” is in the May issue of Woman’s Day. THEY approached ME and asked me to write the piece after reading my column on Literary Mama!! Woo! Suzanne Kamata, Fiction Co-Editor: My essay “Baseball East […]

Come out and join Literary Mama’s editor-in-chief, Caroline Grant, together with contributors Lisa Harper and Nicki Richesin reading some of our favorite springtime picture books! We’ll be at Books, Inc. in San Francisco’s Laurel Village on Thursday, May 6th, at 6 PM. The bookstore supplies the popcorn, we supply the stories, you supply the kids. […]

We are seeking writing that is about fathers from the child’s perspective for the month of June; the relationships between fathers and mothers and husbands and wives; about husbands as fathers; and by self-defined fathers about fathering and mothering (including lesbian or transexual parents who identify as fathers). Submissions and Formatting: Submissions should be double-spaced, […]