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Cheers to us! Literary Mama has been selected as one of the 101 Best Websites for Writers by Writer’s Digest for 2009.

The Progressive Women’s Voices program has become a cornerstone of The Women’s Media Center. In our first year of the program, we intensively media trained 33 women who have gone on to earn over 1000 media hits year to date. We are “changing the conversation” by making sure that there are plenty of qualified, authoritative, […]

by Rebekah Spicuglia Beginning December 1, 2008, mothers around the world have had access to the first global consortium of motherhood organizations. Marking ten years after the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) was founded, mothers’ organizations in North America and around the world came together in October for the ARM annual Toronto conference on […]

LM’s Founding Co-Editor, Amy Hudock says, I spoke at the Association for Research on Mothering Conference in October, and I met with other mother organizations to talk about creating a network. We thought, “If we join all of our readers, participants, and activists together, what a huge network of mothers this will be!” Thus, Literary […]

B-Word/B*tch is a 12-year-old feminist nonprofit media organization that interrogates commercial culture via a magazine, a website, and assorted other media and outreach vehicles. Our founding editorial and creative director is transitioning to a broader organizational role, and so B-Word/B*tch is looking to hire a highly skilled full-time editor to join our tiny but hardworking […]

Dear ARM Members and Friends, We are delighted to report that the INTERNATIONAL MOTHERS NETWORK website will be launched this week. We are inviting all mother organizations to join this first ever international motherhood consortium of motherhood organizations. We would like to have your organization on the website when it is launched. To that end […]

Read an interview with Senior Editor and Zen and the Art of Child Maintenance columnist, Shari MacDonald Strong in, Mom Writer’s LITERARY MAGAZINE. Shari talks about spending her days juggling her work as a writer and editor and “being a disorganized and highly affectionate mom.” About writing as a mother she says, “As a group, […]

The 2009 MAU calendar, The Moment, is dedicated to moments of personal change that shift the direction and purpose of our lives. Often these extraordinary moments are heralded by very ordinary tasks. They arrive – when we’re cradling babies, grocery shopping or bicycling – and begin magically transforming us into passionate advocates for social change. […]

“Mama’s Boy” columnist Jessica Berger Gross’ anthology About What Was Lost: 20 Writers on Miscarriage, Healing and Hope is featured in Cookie magazine. Read the article here.

Jen Lawrence (Reviews Editor) has recently launched Bliss Notes, a free weekly email newsletter focusing on joyful living. Bliss Notes is a weekly newsletter designed to help you live a life of abundance. Whether we are bringing you a review of the latest self-help book, interviews with people who have mastered the art of abundant […]

LM columnist Libby Gruner and six other women are blogging at InsideHigherEd.com on the subject of combining family life with a career in higher education. The writers are all contributors to the anthology, Mama, PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life, edited by LM columnists Elrena Evans and Caroline Grant. The weekly blog rotation […]