News and Announcements

Jessica Berger Gross (former Mama’s Boy columnist) has a new twice-weekly blogging gig over at Yoga Journal. Be sure to check out her most recent post, We Flunked Mommy-Baby Yoga.

The Friends of the Association for Research on Mothering has begun a fundraising campaign and is looking for volunteers. (Due to budget constraints, the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) is scheduled to close on May 1, 2010.) Linn Baran, Outreach Coordinator, needs 10 volunteers. Work can be done from the comfort of your own […]

Due to budget constraints, the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) will close on May 1, 2010. The Toronto, Canada-based organization — and the first international feminist organization devoted to mothering/motherhood — has been affiliated with York University’s Women’s Studies program since its inception in 1998. In 1999, ARM launched the Journal of the Association […]

New from All Things That Matter Press — Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages, compiled and edited by Carol Smallwood and Cynthia Brackett-Vincent. This unique collection includes over fifty articles by more than thirty-five diverse American women who revisit, celebrate, and share defining moments in their lives. Readers will see the universal in milestones of […]

at Think Coffee (1 Bleecker at Bowery, 6 train to Bleeker or BDFV to Broadway/Lafayette) In Honor of World Read Aloud Day March 3rd, 8pm Free of charge On Wednesday, March 3 at 8:00 pm, Literal Latte will be have four wonderful writers reading aloud at Think Coffee. The reading coincides with World Read Aloud […]

News from Great Green Room Columnist Stephanie Hunt: I’m hoping the new year finds you well. I wanted to let you know of a new blog venture I’m co-creating with my writer/artist friend Susan Hull Walker — it’s a contemplative blog (we’re trying to prove that’s not an oxymoron!), reflecting on the shared journey we […]

Editor-in-chief Caroline Grant will be on ABC-7’s View from the Bay, Wednesday January 6th, sharing our editors’ and columnists’ picks for favorite children’s books. Check out the list and take it to your favorite local bookstore or library so that you can share these books with the kids you love.

Who Does She Think She Is?, the terrific documentary about women trying to combine motherhood and artistic work, is coming out on DVD! Mama at the Movies columnist Caroline Grant wrote about the film last year ; here’s an excerpt: I hadn’t really thought about the constraints of space and materials that visual artists work […]

The Afghan Women’s Writing Project is doing good, good work. It is giving young Afghan women an outlet for telling their stories–important stories that would not otherwise be heard. Those women need our help. As program founder Masha Hamilton writes on the AWWP website: “Many of our students and women writers, especially outside of Kabul, […]

(Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing) edited by LM Fiction Co-editor Suzanne Kamata, has just been named the winner in both the Parenting/Family and Anthology categories of the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. This anthology includes essays by Literary Mama columnist Violeta Garcia-Mendoza, former LM columnist Kate MacVean and fiction contributor Susannah Pabot.

Former LM columnist (Bare-Breasted Mama) Gail Konop Baker has won the 2009 National Indie Excellence Award in the memoir category for her book, Cancer is a Bitch, Or, I’d Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis (Da Capo Books).