Literary Mama

Jessica DeVoe posted a fun interview on her blog with LM’s own Ginny Kaczmarek. Stop on by at allrileyedup.com and get to know her a little bit more :)

Thanks to a flurry of submissions, Literary Reflections is closing submissions from April 1st until June 1st while we read through our backlog. If you have an essay you’d like to submit, please send it in now or wait until June. We look forward to reading your work!

….and we need a fresh look! We’re soliciting designs for a new logo that includes our name and tagline — Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined — plus, optionally, an image that captures the spirit of the site. The winning entry will become the property of Literary Mama, to be used on our site, […]

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Read LM Fiction Editor, Suzanne Kamata’s interview with Tokoyo Families Magazine…… Completing and publishing a book is no mean feat in any circumstances. American author Suzanne Kamata wrote her first novel Losing Kei while raising twins in provincial Tokushima in Shikoku. “Motherhood in Japan is potentially all-consuming. I was determined to keep a little bit […]

Susan Ito writes in her blog: Reading, Writing, Living about making that step that is on many of our “to-do” lists but gets pushed back behind all the other necessary parts of the day…writing a will. Susan writes, The thing that really undid me, though, was this: naming someone to make medical decisions for ME, […]

Literary Reflections is pleased to announce this month’s featured writing prompt Selected Short. Each month we will choose one submission to appear as a short on our blog. Check out our section for more information on how to be considered for future Selected Shorts. In March’s prompt, we asked readers “What do you imagine your […]

Elrena Evans, LM’s Marketing and Publicity Manager, holds an MFA from The Pennsylvania State University, and together with Senior Editor Caroline Grant is co-editor of Mama, PhD: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life (Rutgers University Press, 2008). She writes the column Me and My House for Literary Mama, and her writing has also appeared […]

LM Fiction Co-editor Suzanne Kamata was a featured speaker at the Being An Author Broad career seminar in Tokyo. During the event, which was sponsored by the Tokyo-based magazine Being A Broad, Kamata, author of Losing Kei and editor of Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs. Author, columnist […]

We’d like to introduce LM’s new E-Zine Editor, Marie Walden. Marie lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with her husband and six children. After a number of years as a stay-at-home mom and community volunteer, she returned to the workforce as a CPA and found that putting on panty hose and pumps was infinitely less enjoyable […]

Jenny Hobson is Literary Mama’s new Profiles Copyeditor. Jenny lives, blogs, knits, and does GIS in an Ohio River town in West Virginia. She lives with her husband and preschooler daughter. Her blog can be found at Hobson’s Choice.