Writing

MotherTalk is looking for mama bloggers who would like to review books that appeal to women and mothers who love to read. They’re currently looking for people to review James Patterson’s latest YA novel, Maximum Ride 3, as well as Susan O’Doherty’s Getting Unstuck Without Coming Unglued: A Woman’s Guide to Unblocking Creativity … with […]

Violeta Garcia-Mendoza, LM’s Literary Reflections Editorial Assistant, is pleased to announce her 10 week workshop for beginner mama poets. If you’re an expecting, new, birth, step, adoptive or grandmama wanting to learn more about the joys of poetry, as well as create and present your own poems in an encouraging and inspiring workshop format, this […]

Writer’s Digest wants to hear from you on the topic of “When Parenting and Writing Collide.” Write your best original, unpublished parenting-and-writing story in a 500-word essay and email it to publicity(at)fwpubs.com with “Writer Mama contest” in the subject line. Christina Katz, author of Writer Mama: How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids […]

Fellow LM editor Caroline Grant sent me a link to this recent NYT article about Cathy Orenstein teaching women to write op-eds. My favorite quote? “I try to convey the idea that there is a responsibility,” she said. “Op-ed pages are so enormously powerful. It’s one of the few places open to the public. Where […]

Susan Ito’s January Parent Lit Writing Workshop is off to a terrific start, with fantastic discussions, a wonderful bonding community of parent writers, and of course, great writing. The next session (April 1-June 3) is now open for registration. Find out more and register here. Anyone who has had a child knows that parenting is […]

Starting January 7, 2007 Anyone who has had a child knows that parenting is one of life’s most exhilarating, awesome, maddening, humbling, crazymaking, joyful and wrenching experiences–which is what also makes it excellent inspiration for writing. This past decade has shown an explosion in “Parent-Lit,” or the literature of parenthood, in all forms: creative nonfiction, […]

Vicki Forman and Kyra Anderson (This Mom) are looking for essay submissions for their anthology, Gravity Pulls You In: Gravity Pulls You In, a work in progress, is an anthology of beautifully written essays that describe the experiences of parents raising children on the autism spectrum. We are looking for the piercing truth that can […]

THE BOSTON FICTION FESTIVAL is accepting submissions for live reading at the Festival in summer of 2007 and subsequent publication in our annual review. Submitting authors should expect to read at the Festival in order to receive payment. New England residents are strongly encouraged to submit, but all writers are welcome. Looking for lively, literary […]

CFP: Mothering and Popular Culture (collection) I am looking for papers for an edited collection, under provisional contract with McGill-Queen’s University Press, tentatively called Mediated Moms: Mothering and Popular Culture. The proposed scholarly volume will examine the topic of mothers, mothering, and motherhood within and across all forms of twentieth and twenty-first century popular cultures. […]

Today’s stop of the Literary Mama blog tour takes us to LM’s Literary Reflections co-editor Caroline Grant’s blog Food for Thought. Although Grant writes frequently about her love of cooking and her favourite recipes, this is not a “food” blog per se. Rather, Food for Thought reads like a cookbook passed down through the family, […]

Literary Mama’s E-zine editor Shannon L. C. Cate’s blog, Peter’s Cross Station, chronicles what it is like to be a “life-partnered, over-educated, tea-not-coffee-drinking lesbian co-parenting the planet’s cutest child,” and to live in a “a queer interracial family in the times of George W. Bush”. Blog fans may recognize her as the voice behind “Waiting […]