Writing

Literary Reflections is pleased to present our featured writing prompt response from October. Earlier this month, we asked, “When have you felt consumed or trapped by the daily demands of your world? How do you free yourself so you have space, time, and energy to write?” Kristal Murphy wrote: The Early Morning I’m awake. It’s […]

Call for Papers Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection on Laboring On: Testimony, Theory & Transgressions of Black Mothering in Academia Editors: Sekile Nzinga-Johnson & Karen Craddock Pub Date: 2012/2013 This book aims to interrogate the intersecting forms of oppression that are experienced by Black female faculty and scholars who “labor” and […]

International Conference on Motherhood Activism, Advocacy, Agency May 13-15, 2011, Toronto, ON, Canada EXTENDED DEADLINE: OCTOBER 15, 2010! Grounded in a long history, in which women activists, writers, and feminists focused much effort on strengthening the social, personal, and political power of mothers, current motherhood research and activism makes maternal empowerment one of the major […]

“Novelist and Los Angeles Times Television Critic Mary McNamara offers tips on how to write the book you’ve had in your head while not losing your mind or forgetting your family’s needs.” From the September 26th issue of the Los Angeles Times.

Thursday, October 7 * 7 pm * The Loft Literary Center Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue S Minneapolis, MN Free and open to the public Each year, Kate Hopper coordinates a Mother Words Reading to showcase excellent literary nonfiction by women writing about motherhood. This year she will be joined by Bonnie J. Rough, author […]

I don’t know how many of you are familiar with the Afghan Women’s Writing Project, but it is an utterly amazing project that brings together (mostly American) writers with Afghan women writing students. They do online classes and then publish the pieces on a blog. Their stories are absolutely riveting, compelling, inspiring and illuminating. Right […]

Led by Local Author Elizabeth Fishel Welcome New Members This Fall The Wednesday and Friday morning women’s writers’ workshops I’ve led in my Rockridge living room for many years are testimony to the power of writers’ groups as catalysts, support, sources of ideas, and inspiration for the literary life. Part writing class, part support group, […]

Pentimento is a quarterly publication written for and by individuals with disabilities and their caregivers. The word Pentimento refers to an underlying image in a painting, as an earlier painting or original draft that usually shows through when the top layer of paint becomes transparent with age. Therefore, the word itself implies seeing beyond the […]

DATE: Tuesday, September 14 TIME: 6:30-8:30 (new time!) LOCATION: The Libertine Library at Gild Hall,15 Gold Street, NYC FREE ADMISSION Darin Strauss celebrated author of Chang and Eng and the memoir Half a Life Jennifer Egan Acclaimed Great American Novelist and author of The Keep and A Visit from the Goon Squad With Special Guest […]

The Sophia Institute Presenter: Stephanie Hunt September 08, 2010 7 – 9 PM Tuition: Workshop – $25 in advance ~ $35 at the door. Literary Mama columnist Stephanie Hunt is a Charleston-based writer and editor. A contributing editor for Charleston Magazine, Charleston HOME and a regular contributor to Skirt! Magazine, her work runs the gamut […]

Do you keep a journal – or wish you could get one started? Literary Mama wants to help. Three times a month, I’ll post a writing prompt that I hope will encourage you to open a notebook. Write for 10 minutes. Don’t worry about grammar or punctuation – just write. Then let the writing simmer […]