Reading

Gail Konop Baker Cancer Is a Bitch Or, I’d Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis) Tuesday, September 30th 7:30PM Kepler’s Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park www.keplers.com Based on her popular Literary Mama column, the author’s raw, moving account of juggling midlife, motherhood, and marriage with a rogue boob. Baker is busy on her […]

Former LM columnists Jennifer Eyre White (Degrees of Freedom) and Rachel Sarah (Single Mom Seeking) will be reading, along with Marilee Stark and Cynthia Borris,from A Cup of Comfort for Single Mothers at Book Passage in Corte Madera, Sunday, September 7th, at 7pm.

Yesterday afternoon was our LM reading at Blue Bicycle Books in downtown Charleston, SC and it was great! Thanks to Suzanne Kamata for organizing the afternoon and the gathering of smart, wonderful women. It was a true Literary Mama event as various children ate cookies, drank lemonade and ran back and forth in front of […]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580052428/literarymama-20Elrena Evans, LM’s Me and My House columnist, will be reading my piece from the anthology How to Fit a Car Seat on a Camel: And Other Misadventures Traveling with Kids (Sarah Franklin, Seal Press) along with contributor Leesa Gehman, tomorrow in Bethlehem PA at the Moravian Book Shop at 11:00. The reading will be […]

Today at former LM columnist Gail Konop Baker’s group blog, The Debutante Ball, Elrena Evans and Caroline Grant are guest-blogging about how they created their new book, Mama, PhD. Here’s an excerpt: Meet over email. Of course; you live, after all, 3,000 miles apart, but it helps our relationship get into writing right away. We […]

Enjoy a good hunt? You can win four of LM founding editor and columnist Ericka Lutz’s parenting/teen books by participating in an online Scavenger Hunt at her Red Room author site. Winner receives: One copy of each of the following four books, all signed by Ericka: On the Go with Baby The Complete Idiot’s Guide […]

Literary Reflections is pleased to present our featured writing prompt response for May. We asked “How do you handle interruptions? How do you they affect your material? Have any interruptions become or led to inspirations?” Sarah Yost wrote: “This is maybe the 5th time I’ve started this piece, approaching it from the beginning, middle, a […]

Deesha Philyaw, LM contributor, has a story in “PMS poemmemoirstory is a 140-page, perfect-bound, all-women’s literary journal published annually by the University of Alabama at Birmingham. While we proudly publish the best work of the best women writers in the nation (i.e., Maxine Chernoff, Elaine Equi, Amy Gerstler, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Molly Peacock, Lucia Perillo, […]

Libby Gruner, LM’s Children’s Lit Book Group columnist, has written an article titled, “Teaching and Tae Kwon Do” in the March 21st issue of Inside Higher Ed. Libby, the self-described “least athletic person I know,” joined her son’s class after an invitation from his teacher. In the article, Libby says, “Some days class felt like […]

Elrena Evans, LM’s marketing and publicity manager, is giving a reading next Tuesday, March 4th, at Messiah College in PA. It’s at 7:30 and is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow. Check out Elrena’s story, When the Light was Still New, published by the Wild Rose Press. When the daughter […]

The call to participate in a blog day for Patry Francis attracted my attention because I’d just enjoyed reading her profile here on Literary Mama. To learn that she’s too ill, right now, from cancer treatment to promote her book, The Liar’s Diary, attracted my sympathy. I don’t know Francis, and I confess I haven’t […]