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2013
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Two Literary Conferences
Calls for Submissions Round-Up: May
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Motherhood and Words Reading
Literary Mama Rewind: Finding One’s Voice
A Collection of Poetry Resources
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Literary Birthdays: Beverly Cleary
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2012
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World Read Aloud Day
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From the Editor
Writing Retreat in Wisconsin
2011
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Motherhood Initiative Needs Your Support
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30 Poets, 3 Days: New York City
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Book Note: The Gap Year
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Writing Workshops in California
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Call for Submissions: Mothering in the Age of Neoliberalism
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Competition: The Tenth Glass Woman Prize
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Call for Submissions: The Whistling Fire
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Regional Call for Submissions: Breastfeeding Poetry and Shorts for LA Open Mic
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Field of Cradles Exhibit: Boston
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For Father’s Day, a Memoir of Manhood and Masculinity
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Call for Submissions: Motherhood Initiative
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Writing Workshop in Oregon
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Writer Mama Book Giveaway!
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Literary Mama E-Zine
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Book Giveaway: Winners
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2011 Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents
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Mom’s Night Out!
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For Your Journal: YOUR Submissions
Queering Maternity and Motherhood:
International Conference on Mothering, Motherhood and Education
Breadwinning Broads
In Memory of Sara Ruddick
CALL FOR STORIES, Muslim Women
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Postcard from Japan: How You Can Help
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MENNONITE MOTHERING
Grants for Artists & Writers with Families
CASTING: LOOKING FOR DEDICATED & ACTIVE PARENTS
March 9th is World Read Aloud Day!
Birth Story Project
The Fine Line Short Story Collection.
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Blog Book Review: Something to Prove: A Daughter’s Journey to Fulfill a Father’s Legacy
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Stories Between Bites
Literary Reflections Reader Response
Incarcerated Mothers: Oppression and Resistance
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Call for Submissions: stories about career change
A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood California Events
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Writing and Selling Your Personal Essays
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Celebrate World Read Aloud Day!
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Literary Reflections Writing Prompt
Another View of Tiger Parenting
Literary Mama E-Zine
Women Writing Naturally Workshop
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Tiger Mamas
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Pen Parentis Literary Salon
MUSLIM MOTHERING: Call for papers
Single Mom Writes to Help Others
2010
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Win A Copy of Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention
CALL FOR PAPERS: Mothering and Literacies
Blog Book Review: Chosen
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Desperately Seeking Madonna Submissions
ANTHOLOGY CALL: SEEKING ESSAYS BY WOMEN WRITERS ABOUT CRAFT AND THE WRITING PROCESS
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Demeter Press
For Your Journal: Reader Response
Demeter Press
A Literary Holiday Party to benefit Pen Parentis!
Tupelo Press the Dorset Prize
Writing It Real Winter 2010-11 Poetry & Essay Contest
Today, December 6th, is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada.
Blog Book Review: The Forest of Sure Things, Poems by Megan Snyder-Camp
The Moment book
Dream of Things
The Afghan Women’s Writing Project
Mother Words Retreat
For Your Journal: YOUR Submissions
November 26th: National Day of Listening
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Literary Reflections Writing Prompt
Women and Poetry: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing by Successful Women Poets
Women Writing on Family: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Demeter Press
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Anti-Bullying Work in Schools
YA Genre Speaks to Today’s Teenager
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Women Writing on Family: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing
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Feast of Words: A Storytelling Potluck,
Call for Submissions: Here Come the Brides! The Brave New World of Lesbian Marriage (Seal Press, 2012)
Literary Reflections Response
Laboring On: Testimony, Theory & Transgressions of Black Mothering in Academia
For Your Journal: Writing Prompt
Kudos
For Your Journal: Writing Prompt
Pen Parentis Literary Salon
CALL FOR PAPERS: Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI)
Blog Book Review: Geographies of Light, Poems by Lisa Suhair Majaj
A working mother’s guide to writing a novel
Kate Hopper’s 4th Annual Mother Words Reading with Hope Edelman and Bonnie J. Rough
For Your Journal: Writing Prompt
Afghan Women’s Writing Project, seeking editor
Creative, Supportive Women’s Writers’ Groups in Oakland
Call For Submissions: Pentimento Magazine
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Kudos
New title from a LM favorite author
Pen Parentis Literary Salon
For Your Journal: Writing Prompt
Writing Raw: What revealing has to do with revelation, and how to write about family without being disowned
Coming in September: For Your Journal
Women and Poetry: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing by Successful Women Poets
Happy Publication Day to The Life You’ve Imagined
Devotional Stories for Times of Trouble
The Momoir Project Scholarship Offers Chance to Win an Online Writing Course
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Take a Birthing the Mother Writer Class!
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – Occupied Bodies: Women of Color Speak on Self-Image – Deadline October 15, 2010
University of Memphis Survey on Advertising (in children)
Writing It Real Summer/Fall 2010 Poetry & Essay Contest
Dead Advice…
Bay Area Readings for a new book, The Doctor and the Diva
Damselfly Press
Author Interview
I’m No Superwoman: True Stories of Kids, Career and the Chaos of Modern Motherhood”
Blog Book Review: Falling Apart in One Piece
Women’s National Book Association Announces WNBA Award
Looking at the past five years
Kudos
She Writes announces contest to catapult undiscovered women writer to success
NYWIFT and Women Make Movies present An Evening with Mothers In Film, June 30 at Tribeca Film Center – FREE!
Literary Reflections Selected Short
Books Inc.: What I Would Tell Her
In Memory of Henry Granju
Love in Condition Yellow
Drop Out of High School? My Daughter?
Rachel Zucker’s Museum of Accidents
Amy Hudock to beginning writers: ‘Don’t wait to be discovered’
Undefined Magazine
Kudos
Literary Reflections Selected Short
The Threadbare Heart Mother’s Day Contest Winner
Encyclopedia of Motherhood Released
The Hand That First Held Mine
Former LM Columnist Blogging at Yoga Journal
The Life Poetic
Promote LM to friends, family, teachers
Literary Reflections Selected Short
Threadbare Heart Mother’s Day Contest
Poetry Podcast
Kudos
The Literary Mama Pajama Party Reading
Pen Parentis
Sunshine: A Real Life Tale of Single Parenthood and Adoption
New in paperback, essay collection about grandparenting
Women and Poetry: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing by Successful Women Poets
The Motherhood Muse WRITING CONTEST
OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
Fatherhood Submissions
Mother writers – call for submissions
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms
In Honor of Poetry Month, Puma Perl
Pen Parentis
Who Does She Think She Is?
Literary Reflections Selected Short
If You Love Me So Much Make Breakfast In Bed For Me Next Week
Wild Writing Workshops
The East Bay Monthly
Film Screening/Discussion in Peekskill, NY
Win $1,000 for Your True Story of Love Story!
Kudos
Fundraising for ARM
Have Milk, Will Travel: Comic Adventures in Breastfeeding
Former LM Columinst Published at The Huffington Post
Help Wanted: Reviews Editor
Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) to Close
Writing It Real “Mothers and Fathers, Mothering and Fathering” Poetry & Essay Contest
The 2010 Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents
Re-Write a Fairy Tale for Literary Mama
Celebrate World Read Aloud Day with More Read Aloud Choices
Literary Mamas in new anthology on Contemporary American Women
Celebrate World Read Aloud Day at Books, Inc!
Share what it’s like to be a public school teacher
Artists’ Retreat
Literal Latte Reading
March 3rd Is World Read Aloud Day!
Stories of Becoming
Pen Parentis
Help Wanted!
Support Independent Filmmaking!
Help Wanted in Literary Reflections!
Women Writing Naturally: Winter Retreat
ALS-a life still
Support Relief Efforts in Haiti: Shop Literary Mama!
2010 Mother Words Writing Retreat
View from the Bay: Essential Children’s Books!
The Fine Line
2009
Welcome back!
Pen Parentis
She Writes Webinar
Respecting Differences: A Response to Lynn Harris’ article, “Everybody Hates Mommy”
The Faster Times
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners
Mother Words Online with Literary Reflections Co-Editor Kate Hopper
Improve Your Memoir and Life Story Writing
Mothering Outside the Lines
The Kitchen Sisters
The Mom Egg
Pen Parentis
Literary Reflections Selected Short
Blog Book Review: enLIGHTend
End of Life Stories
Being and Thinking as an Academic Mother
Sophia Raday at LitQuake!
Fathers and Daughters
The East Bay Monthly
East Bay Monthly Call for Submissions:
The 2009 Stanton/Anthony Conversations: Mothers as Leaders: Contradictions & Challenges
Who Does She Think She Is? DVD discount!
Literary Reflections Selected Short
Pen Parentis Event October 13, 2009, NYC
The Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction
Enter Today to Win 3 Literary Mama Anthologies!
Event in Berkeley: Mothers, Family, and the Women’s Movement in the 21st Century
New Section Added for “Literature of Parenthood” online class
Research Without Borders Speaker Series
Berkeley Writer’s Class
Former LM Columnist Sophia Raday offers a reading!
Literary Reflections Selected Short
Scholarship to attend Sage Cohen’s Poetry for the People class
LM Fiction Contributor’s short story collection published
LM’s Columns Editor publishes short story!
Pen Parentis Even in NYC Tues. 9/8!
Call for Submssions: And Then It Shifted: Women Open Up About Leaving Men for Women
New Issue: Miranda
Two online classes offered by former LM Columnist Violeta Garcia-Mendoza
3rd Annual Mother Words Reading, Minneapolis
Win 3 Literary Mama Anthologies!
Mother Words Writing Class offered by LM’s Kate Hopper
Book Giveaway!
Calling all Published Parents…
Talking about Bad Mother
Aspiring writer? Former LM Columnist shares tips!
Call For Fiction Submissions
The Ultimate Christian Living
Robot Hearts: Twisted and True Tales of Seeking Love in the Digital Age
This Lovely Life
Encyclopedia on Motherhood
SHE WRITES
Good Housekeeping’s Short Story Contest
Motherhood Poems
Sexual Identity Anthology
The Mom Egg
Motherhood: A Formal Constraint
The Family Bed: Is There Sex After Kids?
Catalyst Book Press
New Story Collection from Victoria Patterson
CALL FOR PAPERS
“DadsDudesDoingIt”
Support the Afgan Women’s Writing Project! Buy a raffle ticket! Win a prize!
Who Does She Think She is?
The Mom Egg
6-Week Writing Intensive & Publication in Anthology
6-Week Writing Intensive & Publication in Anthology
6-Week Writing Intensive & Publication in Anthology
Literary Reflections Selected Short
The Monthly
Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering
Mother Words Online Summer Session – 8 weeks
Children’s book reading…
Indie Excellence Award
Writing Memoir Class
Happy Mother’s Day
Pen Parentis
Moms in the Fast Lane
Museum Of Motherhood
The Motherlode Writers
Win 5 Books: May is Asian Heritage Month!
art, faith and motherhood….
Cultural Consequences of Unmotherhood
Memoir Journal
Exhale
THE MINDFUL WRITER: A workshop in cultivating your fearless voice
Literary Reflection Selected Short
The OpEd Project
Birth Story
East Bay Monthly
The Choosing America Project
Poetry Talk with Ginny Kaczmarek
Literary Mama Best Website
motherhood anthology
Pen Parentis Presents
Pen Parentis Presents
National Poetry Month — Books Our Reviewers Love
Mama, PhD readings in Virginia and North Carolina
Literary Reflections Selected Short
“enLIGHTened: How I Lost 40 Pounds with a Yoga Mat, Fresh Pineapples, and a Beagle Pointer.”
Cup of Comfort
Hit and Run Magazine
Poems About Fatherhood
Literary Reflections Reading Period
Barnes and Noble Favorite
Pen Parentis
A Cup of Comfort for New Mothers
The Mindful Writer:
International Mothers Network
Literary Reflections Selected Short
Parenting as Soul Work
Dads in Academia
A Cup of Comfort® for Mothers:
Mother Words Online
“The Politics of Reproduction: New Technologies of Life,”
Poetry for the People
Mother in the Middle: A Biologist’s Story of Caring for Parent and Child
Literary Reflections Selected Short
Love in the Time of Colic: The New Parents’ Guide to Getting it on Again
Seeking writing stories
Literary Reflections Selected Short
Mothers Creating/Writing Lives: Motherhood Memoirs
ABC WANTS YOUR MOMMY STORIES –
Call for submission of personal accounts from mothers who have survived domestic violence.
New Anthology from Suzanne Kamata
Austin Mamas, Celebrate Obama’s Inauguration at BookWoman This Saturday, 1/17
Write Your Story
Writing Class for Moms
“Moms Gone Mad”
The Mindful Writer
2008
Literary Reflections Selected Short
Mama, Ph.D: Women Write About Motherhood and the Academy
“DIFFICULT DIALOGUES
Hopes for the Holidays
Anthologies
Progressive Women’s Voices
Mothers Linked World Wide
The Middle Place
Literary Reflections Selected Short
Network of Mothers
B-Word/B*tch job opening
Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism: A Gathering
INTERNATIONAL MOTHERS NETWORK
Catalyst Book Press
CO residents: meet LM senior editor Shari MacDonald Strong at the Boulder Bookstore: Weds., December 3, 7:30 p.m.
Memoir Writing
Call for Submissions: Women’s Work Festival
Mama at the Movies
Miranda
Dads in Academia
The Crazyhorse Fiction Prize
New Books by Literary Mamas!
Woman’s Work: The Short Stories
Literary Mama is turning 5
The Mama Mary Show
Mama, PhD Reading in Berkeley
Creative Nonfiction Special Topics Class
Tweet, tweet! We’re on Twitter (and Facebook, too)
Creative Nonfiction 1 Writing Class
An Interview with Shari MacDonald Strong
Literary Reflections Selected Short
Playing for Papa
The 2009 Mothers Acting Up Calendar is here!
Call for Papers
Dyke Moms, Donor Dads, and Reconceiving the Queer Family:
Words Without Borders
skirt! Magazine
a mother in academe…
MOTHERHOOD & PHILOSOPHY:
ARM conference
About What Was Lost featured in Cookie Magazine
damselfly press
Philosophical Inquiry into Pregnancy
“Freeing Your Child From Negative Thinking”
COMPOSER SEEKING POET
Girl Talk: 25 Open Letters to Our Female Friends
A Cancer Survivor’s Memoir Leads to a Fashion Statement
A River & Sound Review
Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages
Women Writing on Today’s American Family
“EDUCATED IN FREEDOM”
Calling all Stay-At-Home Doctorates!
Literary Reflections Selected Short
Writers On The Rise
Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumbgardner Reading at Powell’s Books in Portland
Cancer Is A Bitch
APRONSTRINGS
The Maternal Wall in Academe
Mama, PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life
Poetry reading
Lit Crawl
Wisdom of Our Mothers
Knowing Pains
Seeking children’s drawings…
Literary Reflections Featured Short – August Prompt
The Sarah Myth
Sarah Palin’s Kids, Our Kids
Cancer Is a Bitch
‘Baby-shaped Hole’
Bay Area Reading
Emprise Review
Spots still available!
LM Reading at Blue Bicycle Books!
How to Fit a Car Seat on a Camel: And Other Misadventures Traveling with Kids
Mothers Creating/Writing Lives: Motherhood Memoirs
The American Satellite
Berkeley Writing Class
MotherVerse Online workshops
Momma writers and bloggers for anthology!
M/othering and a Bodied Curriculum
Demeter Press
MotherVerse Online Workshops
Online Creative Nonfition Writing Class for Fall
Upcoming Literary Mama Events
3,000 Miles, Two Writers, One Book
Call for Papers
Bliss Notes
Traveling Mamas Anthology
Multilingual Living Magazine
Literary Reflections Selected Short – June
Literary Mama Ericka Lutz’s Scavenger Hunt
The Maternal is Political
Yoga Philosophy and Weight loss….
A Special Issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly
Chicken Soup seeking submissions
A Nursing Triad
Readings in Portland and Pasadena
Ain’t I a Mommy?
call for manuscripts – The Ultimate Series
Share Some Comfort
Mothering Out Loud: Moms Tell the Truth About Blogging it All
Tokyo Families Magazine
Going Under
Bookstore Readings for The Maternal Is Political
anthology on mothering across cultures
“Best Of”……editor’s blogging
Literary Reflections Selected Short- May
Inside Higher Ed
WRITING MOTHERHOOD PAPERBACK TOUR MAY 2008
The Traveling Mamas
“Best of” Editor’s blogs
Spend Mother’s Day Month with Literary Mama!
Literary Reflection Selected Short: April
Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years
Best Of……editor’s blogging
Love You To Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs
Spoonfuls of Stories®
Literary Reflections Selected Short: March
Seeking Submissions
Out and About with Kids: From Getting Across Town to Traveling Around
Newark Arts Alliance
PMS literary Journal
“Brewing up more Cup of Comforts”
Who We Are
Teaching and Tae Kwon Do
Special Needs Mama
Mother Writer Workshops
Switchback
Have you heard about The Writer Mama Scholarship?
MINDFUL MOMENTS FOR MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS
life, love and change in our 40s
Reading: For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth about Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance
Being An Author Broad
Who We Are
Want to be a Seal author?
The StoryQuarterly Love Story Contest
Divorce is Rad!
Feminist Parenting
Motherhood and Writing, by Kathryn Trueblood
ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH ON MOTHERING AND DEMETER PRESS
Literary Reflections Selected Short- February
Real Life and Liars
Who We Are
Blog Day for Patry Francis
Reading Recommendations from Regan McMahon!
The new Our Bodies, Ourselves
Glimmer Train Family Matters
“Backstory: Emily Listfield on her novel, Waiting to Surface.”
Women Writing on Family: Writing, Publishing, and Teaching Tips by U.S. Women Writers
The Writer Mama scholarship
Who We Are
Selected Shorts Writing Contest
MomsRising
Want to Write a Novel?
skirt! Magazine
The Baby I Turned Away
2007
Who We Are
Conte: A Journal of Narrative Writing.
Mamaphonic
Who We Are
Literary Mama Authors!
Lovely Lady Lumps
The Mother of all Zines is Back!
Mamazine
Literary Mama Needs Editorial Help!
A Wild Ride
WOW! Women on Writing
Who’s Your Mama: The Voices of Unsung Women and Mothers
Call For Papers
Mama Focus Photo Contest!
Center For Women Book Signing
Local Author Book Fair
Women’s Worlds 2008 Conference
White Ink
Short Review: Unsung Heroines
Miranda Issue #17
White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood
The Daring Book For Girls
Love You To Pieces, Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs
More from Moms Rising…
“On Being a Mother in the Academe”
My Mom Is My Hero
Help Wanted: Literary Mama Seeks Web Wrangler!
Church Moms
Reproductive Rights
ARM conference
New webzine seeking submissions
Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
Summer Reading
Wondertime Magazine
Thereby Hangs a Tale
MotherVerse
A Cup of Comfort
The WAHM Magazine
Parenting 101
The Secrets behind Writing and Selling Your First Book
Only As Good As Your Word
Who We Are
Who We Are
Making it Pop
Brain, Child
WHY (Work, Home, You)
Two Angry Moms
blogs about mothers
toyless play enhances child’s imagination
Dispatches from Reviews
“Who We Are”
Cup of Comfort
Cimarron Review
Dreaming About Water, a collection of personal essays and practical advice by and for women living with diabetes
Want to Write a Novel?
“Who We Are”
Incompetence Strikes at FEMA, Again
Grace Paley, writer and activist dies
“Who We Are”
New Reading for Fans of the Bare-breasted Mama
Writing and Publishing The Short Stuff, Especially For Moms!
“Who We Are”
Hero Series call for true stories
Creative Non-Fiction, writing memoir
First Book
Moms Rising/afterschool programs
Christian Science Monitor
Weaning the Babies — New Chapbook by Literary Mama Contributor
Call for Submissions – Poetry
New Poetry from Julia Lisella
Bloggers Needed!
Call for Submissions: Futuristic Motherhood
Call for Submissions: Cup of Comfort
Call for Submissions: Meadowbrook Press
Open Adoption Support
A Cup of Comfort for Single Mothers
Wanted: Mom Bloggers & Book Reviewers
Poetry Wanted for Parent Blessings book
Mama, Ph.D: Women Write About Motherhood and the Academy
The Writing Mamas Salon in San Francisco
W. Kamau Bell’s Solo Performance Workshop.
Motherwords, a new magazine for mothers.
“The Daring Book For Girls” by LM’s Andi Buchanan
Andi Buchanan on Writers Revealed Radio
Two Lines: World Writing in Translation reading
Caught in the Creative Act: Writers Talk about their Writing
“Pencils and Whatnot: A Fiction Writing Workshop” with Ericka Lutz
More Martinis…
“Bad” Mothers discussed on Writers Revealed Radio
Calling All Mama-Poets!
1.) Go to Amazon.com and purchase Karen Rizzo’s memoir
Suzanne Kamata’s “Losing Kei” Now Available
It Only Takes an Instant
Author Terry Ryan passes away.
In The Motherhood Scriptwriting Contest
“Mother’s Day” Monday Night Blues, May 14th
The Mommy War Machine
Berkeley, CA Mother’s Day Reading
Seeking Personal Stories about Mothers and Motherhood
Ericka Lutz on American Public Media Show “The Story”
Call for Submissions: Glimmer Train
A crusading publisher pushes Niger’s limits
Choice Mom Expo
Book Deal: Congratulations to Sophia Raday!
Mom TV?
Imus’ Show Was Always Trash — I Just Pretended Not to Notice
Crazyhorse/Tupelo Press Publishing Institute
Hip Mama Essay
San Francisco MotherTalk with Santa Montefiore
Philadelphia MotherTalk with Maribeth Fischer
Focus on Amy Hudock!
Call for Submissions: The Maternal Is Political
Literary Mama Poem featured on Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts Blog
Help Wanted!
Contest: Are You a Writer Mama (or Papa)?
American Public Media Seeks Your Input
Former LM Editor & Columnist in San Francisco Chronicle
Perfectly Imperfect
Call for Submissions – Seal Press
Washington D.C. Reading & Signing
Seattle, WA Reading & Signing
Women writing op-eds
LM Fiction Editor Reading at Four Stories Event
Single State of the Union
MomsRising
Announcing Book Club Works
Southern, Single and a Mother
April Parent-Lit Workshop Now Open for Registration
Talking About the Problem
Single Mom Seeking — A REVIEW!
Rachel Sarah Appears in NYC
In Honor of Tillie Olsen: 1912-2007
Missive from Rachel Sarah
Crisis at Op Ed!
2006
More LM News and Notes — Andi Buchanan
Write On, Jennifer Margulis
Peace Moms (and Dads)
Elle Reviews About What Was Lost
Rachel Sarah Interviewed by Rachel Kramer Bussel
Online Parent-Lit Writing Workshop to Start in January
Better op-ed guidelines
Rachel Sarah in the News!
Special STEPPARENTING Issue! ***edited***
Andi Buchanan on “The Escalation of Cool”
Living in the U.S.? GO VOTE!!!
“O” Magazine Publishes Article “No, Daddy, No”
Sign Up for the Literary Mama E-zine!
Literary Mama Seeks Copy Editor
Bare-breasted Mama
Call for Submissions: Mothering and Mental Health Mega-Zine
Call for Submissions – Women and War
Fathers’ Turn
Call for Submissions: Gravity Pulls You In
Book Deal: Congratulations to LM’s Sybil Lockhart
Call for Submissions: Boston Fiction Festival
LM Editor/Columnist to Read at Litquake’s Lit Crawl
Call For Proposals: Mothering and Popular Culture
Literary Mama Blog Tour: Food for Thought
Talk Radio for Women, by Women: Victory or Cautionary Tale?
Will write for swag?
LM Blog Tour: Peter’s Cross Station
It’s fall and we’re back!
Literary Mama Editor in Skirt!
Literary Reflections Contributor in Random House Anthology
Some Things Adoptive Mothers Can’t Do
Linda Hirshman’s Middle Finger Raised to Gen X Values
Literary Mama Columnist in Wondertime Magazine
The Literary Mama E-zine Relaunches!
Book Release: Ghost in the House
Please resubmit applications
Book Release: When the Cows Got Loose
Literary Mama Blog Tour: This Woman’s Work
Book Release: Finding Magic Mountain
Literary Mama Update: Salon.com, Washington Post and Parenting
Become a Literary Mama! Seeking Editors and Editorial Assistants
Literary Mama Blog Tour: Mother Shock
Former LM Editor Awarded Fulbright Fellowship
Single Mom Seeking Causes Stir at Washington Post
A Remedy for Mother Judgement
Leslie Morgan Steiner Responds to LM Review; Caitlin Flanagan Recommends the Halibut
Sophia Raday in New York Times
Rebecca Kaminsky guest blogger at Washington Post
Can You Stomach This?
Bent Gender Doesn’t Break
Interview with Caitlin Flanagan
LM Update
Return of the Happy Housewife
It’s a Girl!
Mama Sez and Other Opinionated Writing
Caitlin Flanagan Interview and Literary Mama Managing Editor on CNN
USA Today, Readings, Censorship and More
LM Wants Your Opinion: Call for Submissions
Literary Mama Update
Too Much Housewife
Weekly Round Up
Highlighting Literary Mamas
Wolf at the Door
PBS: Bigger than the Bird
Covering Up
That Mommy Wars Thing
Some more good news
Readings, Appearances, and Other Events
Literary Mama Book Reviewed in Washington Post
Singing Our Praises
When the going gets tough, lower your expectations
Using Our Words: A New Anthology by Parent Writers
Wifely Expectations
Bits and Pieces
LM Blog tour: Blog posts and more questions answered
LM Blog Book Tour: More reader questions answered
Repeating Our History
LM Blog Tour: Questions answered!
We’re Nuts; They’re Wrong: Let’s Get Some Perspective
Got a Problem? Don’t Make It Mine
Welcome
Naughty Mommy and Tucker Carlson
Literary Mama Blog Book Tour: Blogger in the Spotlight
More from The Naughty Mommy
Another LM Anthology Reading in Oakland
Mothers still talking…
Andi writes about the LM Deisel Reading
What Mothers Are Talking About
Fellow Warriors in The Mommy Wars
Life After Today: Catching Up With Author Heidi Raykeil
My Inner Housewife: Shine Responds
My Happy Inner Housewife
2005
Naughty Mommy Interview
The Cost of Motherhood
LM Editor on Today Show
Toronto Star Blogging Article
A New Approach to Publishing?
A Moment of Silence
The “Elite” Talk Back: Linda Hirshman and Miriam Peskowitz Respond
The “Elite” Talk Back
Housewife Chic
The Doctor is In: more from Dr.Sue
A Metafiltered Take on Mothering
It’s a Boy – the blog book tour
Read Martha’s blog. Right now.
“This is new territory. I am an explorer.”
New content
Mother Talk Follow-Up
Opting Out — Again?
Mother Talk: Philadelphia
Judgment call
An interview with Barbara Katz Rothman
New Poetry Chapbook from Ona Gritz
Alpha Mom
Words fail me…
Round up the usual conflicts
LM makes the front page of THE STATE
LM discussed in San Francisco Chronicle
Literary Mama–The Book
Another LM Editor signs book deal
Barbara Crooker’s New Book of Poems
Interview with Brain,Child editors
New Columns
Passing Judgment
Reading List: What do LM editors like to read?
Alli, revisited
Supportive Celebrity Mama
Reading Native Mother Writing
In honor of Allison Crews
Profile: Marrit Ingman
“Gardening is writing…”
Mother Writers in History
Mother Talk Report
Meet the Author
A conversation with Miriam Peskowitz
café test
Mamapalooza
Mother Talk and Word of Mouth
New stuff
Alas, I have no time
Amazonia
How did I miss this?
Our new blogger officially a Literary Mama
The Terrible Twos
Writing Frankly About Your Kids: Is It The Last Great Taboo?
Tales from the (Mother) Hood
Women Writers: Dull? Depressed? Domestic?
Video Game Babies as Demanding as Real Ones
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