Literary Mama was founded over five years ago by a small group of writers who first met as part of a Berkeley, California writing group led by Amy Hudock. Amy and that initial group of mother-writers - including Joanne Hartman, Rebecca Kaminsky, Sybil Lockhart, Sophia Raday, Heidi Raykeil, and Rachel Sarah -- worked with Andrea Buchanan (in Philadelphia) to establish Literary Mama. Today, we're over thirty editors working from three different countries to publish work in eight sections - all of which will now be easier to read!
So poke around: you can subscribe to feeds of your favorite sections and columns; you can share our writing with your friends easily via email, Facebook, Twitter and the like. You can comment on all of our writing. The look is new; the writing is as good as ever. So pull up your laptop and sit for a spell; we've got a lot of catching up to do.
Please join us for our December 8 reading and fundraising event celebrating an amazing first year!
December 8 brings three, that's right 3 acclaimed writers to the Libertine Library: Sam Apple, Amy Sohn, and Jeffrey Rotter. All are great writers who will share their work, wit, and tales from the trenches of writing while simultaneously parenting!
In addition to readings by literary superstars, there will be festive drink specials, literary prize giveaways, and a flurry of Pen Parentis mystery guests on hand to keep things interesting.
For our December 8 event, may we suggest making a heartfelt and generous cash donation to Pen Parentis? Any donations of $20 and up are conveniently payable by credit card and tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law...
Thank you in advance for doing what you can to keep New York's most unique reading series alive and well in 2010, and thank you for a groundbreaking first year!
See you at the Libertine Library...
DATE: Tuesday, December 8, 2009
TIME: 6-8 pm, come after work!
LOCATION: The Libertine Library at the Gild Hall @ 15 Gold Street, 2nd floor NYC.
DIRECTIONS: Walking directions from A/C (@ Broadway/Nassau) or 2/3/4/5/J/M/Z (@ Fulton) trains: Walk east on Fulton Street to Gold Street, turn right and right again at Platt.
Walking directions from 4/5 train or E train or PATH: From Broadway take Maiden Lane east to Gold Street (third intersection). Turn left on Gold and left again at Platt.
Enter through the lobby of the Gild Hall Hotel and join us upstairs for a night to remember.
Exclusive Pen Parentis bar available upstairs!