News and Announcements

Would you give a newborn baby a sugar cookie? Even if you were desperate? Read about that first cookie in Caroline Grant’s essay on Hip Mama. Caroline edits Literary Reflections and writes the column Mama at the Movies.

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.

“Rapunzel’s Mother” by Carolyn Williams-Noren (currently featured in the Literary Mama poetery department) was discussed on the Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts blog this week as part of a focus on the Rapunzel myth. Congratulations, Carolyn!

Former LM editor and columnist Sophia Raday is featured in a San Francisco Chronicle article on how military families are coping with the war. As the conflict approaches its four-year anniversary, Sophia’s husband has been deployed to serve in Iraq. Meanwhile, Sophia is at work on a memoir based on her LM columns. Look for […]

If you’re in the Washington D.C. area, please join us for a champagne toast and reading to celebrate the launch of Not What I Expected: The Unpredictable Road from Womanhood to Motherhood. The anothology includes a story by LM Fiction Editor Suzanne Kamata, and a piece by Donna Vitucci that originally appeared in Literary Mama. […]

Literary Mama Fiction Editor, Suzanne Kamata, will be reading from her forthcoming novel Losing Kei at the Portugalia Bar and Grill in Osaka, Japan, Sunday night, March 18. This event is an offshoot of the popular Boston reading series, Four Stories. But don’t worry if you can’t make it to Osaka. You can download and […]

Editor-in-Chief Amy Hudock and columnist Rachel Sarah have essays appearing in Single State of the Union, which has just been published by Seal Press. Way to go!

The entire Literary Mama community mourns the passing of Tillie Olsen, who died on New Year’s Day at age 94. She was — and is — a hero to women writers everywhere, especially to those of us who try every moment of every day to balance writing with motherhood. Lengthier and more formal obituaries can […]

Here in the United States it’s Election Day. Honor your revolutionary foremothers and get thee to your polling place! Remember that most of the early Suffragists in this country were mothers (many had five or six children): Julia Ward Howe, Kate Shepard, Ida B. Wells, Sojourner Truth. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote suffrage speeches while nursing […]

If a man gets caught molesting a child down the street, he’ll get jail time. If a father or step-father gets caught molesting a child living in his own house, he’ll get probation and therapy. This month, “O” Magazine takes on laws and family court systems that abuse children by failing to protect them from […]

Yesterday evening marked the official launch of GreenStone Media, a new national radio network “for women, by women.” With powerhouses Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem serving on GreenStone’s board, this looks like a wonderful day for feminists, indeed. GreenStone promises to be “what is missing in talk today — radio that is thought-provoking, emotionally involving, […]