Literary Mama

This month, Literary Mama profiles our brilliant Editor-in-Chief, Amy Hudock. Read about the birth of our magazine and get an insight into the woman who got us all started and keeps us all going. Amy is also currently featured in SKIRT! magazine’s “she’ssoskirt” section. “Motherhood is how I found my voice,” Amy says.

Would you like to join our editorial staff? We’re looking for a very part-time Associate Editor — or two — in Columns, as well as a Copyeditor. The ideal AE has experience as a substantive or line editor, while the ideal CE is psychotic about detail and is comfortable writing (and testing) links in HTML. […]

Ok folks, my iBook gave up the ghost just before the holidays and despite expert assistance, I can’t move my mail over to my shiny new MacBook. This means that submissions I’ve received for Op Ed (including accepted pieces) are (in the immortal words of the Violent Femmes) gone, daddy, gone. If you’ve submitted an […]

Never let it be said that you have nothing to read… at least not if you stick with us! This month, Andi Buchanan, Literary Mama’s founding Managing Editor, was mentioned in the New York Times article Chick Lit, The Sequel: Yummy Mummy. And, keeping it all in the family, Andi also has a piece in […]

Our intrepid columnist Jennifer Margulis not only sends us fascinating (and worrisome) missives from Africa, but continues to rock on as an international freelance writer. Her article in Oregon’s Ashland Daily Tidings on nursing past her son past the age of three has gotten responses around the U.S. and abroad: from Alaska, to Texas, to […]

Elle Magazine online features a review of Literary Mama columnist Jessica Berger Gross’s new book About What Was Lost: twenty writers on miscarriage, healing, and hope, which hits the stores this December just in time for the holidays. Congratulations, Jessica!

Last weekend I attended the 2006 Nieman Narrative Conference. There were a lot of great workshops by a lot of thrilling presenters but one of the most inspiring was given by Connie Schultz. Ms. Schultz is a mom, a wife (to newly elected senator Sherrod Brown) and a Pulitzer-prize winning writer. Her op-eds appear in […]

We’re doing a special issue focusing on STEPPARENTING, and we need your help and your writing! Here at Literary Mama, we’ve always welcomed — encouraged — made it our mission — to feature the many voices and faces of motherhood. That includes stepmothers, of course. As a stepmother, and as the author of a bestselling […]

Literary Mama’s own Andi Buchanan recently appeared at the Association for Research on Mothering conference in Toronto, Canada talking about trends in mother-literature. The full text of her speech appears on her own blog, Mother Shock, but you can get a flavor of it here: It used to be transgressive to write about “the dark […]

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Would you like to join our editorial staff? We’re looking for a copyeditor for our Reviews department. Please send a letter/resume expressing your interest/experience to Sybil Lockhart, Jen Lawrence, and Rebecca Kaminsky — reviews@literarymama.com.