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Literary Mama at Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
It doesn’t happen often that writer mamas get the time and space they need to fully immerse themselves in the craft of writing. Two Literary Mama staff members, D’Ann Drennan and Marie Goyette, recently attended Middlebury Breaf Loaf Writers’ Conference, which ran from Aug 13-23, 2025 in Ripton, Vermont. Both of them came from the […]
What I Learned from Barbie and Her Eclectic Friends
The new Barbie film has transported me to my childhood. Barbara Millicent Roberts arrived at my house on December 25, 1963. Barbie was gorgeous in her gold and white bathing suit and matching headscarf. The new doll was a grown-up girl, but many of my friends looked like her, All-American little girls with blue eyes, straight part-in-the-middle, yellow-white hair, and Coppertone-tanned […]
Where Are They Now? An Interview with Anne Liu Kellor
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, Literary Reflections Editor and Senior Editor Andrea Lani catches up with Anne Liu Kellor. The first essay I edited when I came on board as editor of the […]
Calls for Submissions–December 2022
Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we’ll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts every other 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 […]
Calls for Submissions – October 2022
Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we’ll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts every other 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 […]
Calls for Submissions – August 2022
Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we’ll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts every other 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 […]
Where Are They Now? An Interview with LM Contributor, Stephanie Land
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. You’d have to be hiding under a rock to be unfamiliar with author and activist Stephanie Land. She’s the bestselling author of […]
Where Are They Now? An Interview with LM Contributor Windy Lynn Harris
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, former editor-in-chief Amanda Jaros chatted via Zoom with writer and editor Windy Lynn Harris, whose fiction was published […]
Calls for Submissions – June 2022
Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we’ll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts every other 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 […]
Where Are They Now? An Interview with LM Contributor, Laurie Rachkus Uttich
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. Look to this series for writing inspiration, reading suggestions, and connections to other mama writers. This week, Blog Editor and CNF Editorial […]