News and Announcements

Mind the Bird Media, a literary publicity and consulting agency, recently shared an educational opportunity with Literary Mama that we’re happy to pass along to you. Publicity for Authors is a 3-week Zoom class that offers processes and tools for building a publicity campaign. It’s useful for authors with a forthcoming book, but also for those who simply want […]

We are excited to announce Literary Mama’s first annual #MamaAndWriting week! This virtual writing week will kick off on Mother’s Day, May 8, for a full week of prompts, goals, community, and resources. We invite mama writers to participate in any or all of #MamaAndWriting week. Meet a word count goal, attend a virtual write-in, […]

We at Literary Mama love HerStry Blog, where “telling your story is a revolutionary act.” If you haven’t read the personal essays they publish each week, we recommend you check them out, or maybe even submit your own essay under the monthly theme. From their website: “Since 2015 we have collected hundreds of stories from […]

 New Book Recommendation! Zibby Owens’ newest memoir, Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, is slated for publication in July 2022, and we can’t wait to read it. She writes that the book is “a deeply personal memoir about one woman’s journey to finding her voice and rewriting her story by the creator and […]

In an effort to help offset the systematic inequality in the literary industry, Amanda Jaros will offer editorial feedback to people who donate to nonprofit organizations that support people traditionally underrepresented or marginalized.

Thank you for participating in our “Mama And” prompt series! We had wonderful submissions for our month of running in March. See our favorite contributions below! Our prompt for April is: Mama And Laughter Whether it’s flash fiction, micro-story, drabble, found or short poetry, or even art, each prompt will be an invitation to share […]

Literary Mama is proud to support the Erma Bombeck Writer’s Workshop, which will take place October 20–22, 2022, in Dayton, Ohio. Seats are still available for this in-person workshop, and there’s a virtual option too. From their website: “The Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop has been dubbed the ‘Woodstock of Humor.’ Another writer describes it as […]

Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we’ll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts each 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 open […]

Thank you for participating in our “Mama And” prompt series! We had wonderful submissions for our mischievous month in February. See our favorite contributions below! Our prompt for March is: Mama And Running Whether it’s flash fiction, micro-story, drabble, found or short poetry, or even art, each prompt will be an invitation to share a […]

Congratulations to these Literary Mama Staff members! ~~~~~ Literary Reflection Editor Kimberly Lee’s creative nonfiction appeared in the anthologies I Am Woman: Expressions of Black Womanhood in America and Rearing in the Rearview by Quillkeepers Press. Other writing was published in Fresh Ink, Mom Egg Review, and on the blogs of Amherst Writers & Artists and the Transformative Language Arts Network. Kimberly’s review of Motherhood: Facing & Finding Yourself appeared […]

We’re starting a new community project at Literary Mama: a monthly prompt series called “Mama And.” We will be pairing different creative prompts with the concept of motherhood, and we want to see what each inspires you to create! Whether it’s flash fiction, micro-story, drabble, found or short poetry, or even art, each prompt will […]