Reading

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 […]

Author Regan McMahon (Revolution in the Bleachers: How Parents Can Take Back Family Life in a World Gone Crazy Over Youth Sports) currently featured in Profiles (who also happens to be the deputy book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle) has some book recommendations for Literary Mama readers. McMahon says: “I loved the book I […]

Mamaphiles, the mama-zine compilation, announces the publication of its third issue. In this installment, twenty-five zine-writing mamas (including Literary Mama’s Creative Nonfiction Co-Editor Kate Haas) and one papa take on the theme “Coming Home.” Contributors range from zine veterans like Ariel Gore of Hip Mama to young mothers brand-new to zines. Packed with essays, poetry, […]

Annie Kassof, a single mother of two in Berkeley, sent us this short review of Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream by Ruth Sidel (University of California Press, 2006, $17.95) Hunter College professor of sociology Ruth Sidel’s newest book, Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream, is a testament to the strength […]

Announcing issue number seventeen of Miranda, CNF co-editor Kate Haas’s zine about motherhood. This issue features the essay “Waldorf School Dropout” (gnomes and knitting don’t make up for a hellish teacher); a discussion about using your child’s card to reserve extra books at the library (clever strategem or unethical scam?); the account of a maternal […]

The Daring book for Girls by authors Andi Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz has received a lot of press since it hit the bookshelves this month. In the Sunday New York Times Style section, Liesl Schillinger writes, “In the “Daring Book for Girls,” the authors mix inspiring tales of girls who made good (mostly familiar names […]

Literary Mama’s Reviews desk is in the enviable position of receiving far more books than we can ever hope to review. While we are giddy that so many authors are writing books about mothering, and so many mother writers are writing books about, well, everything, we cannot review more than a handful of titles each […]