Pen Parentis

Pen Parentis is hosting a Literary Salon on March 11, 2025 (7 pm ET/4 pm PT) titled “From Page to Screen,” and Literary Mama is invited! The Pen Parentis Literary Salon is a monthly series with multiple goals including shattering stereotypes about parent writers and promoting their creative work. The March salon features four parents–Trey […]

While at AWP (read more about my experience here and senior editor Rudri Patel’s takeaways here), I met the creators of two groups all Literary Mamas should know about.  Pen Parentis provides critical resources to working writers to keep them on track after starting a family. They provide Writing Fellowships for parents with children under the age of 10 (I sadly […]