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Submissions. Literary Mama features writing by both established and emerging writers about the complexities of motherhood. We believe in a wide-ranging understanding of motherhood as experienced through multiple lenses and bodies. We seek top-notch fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from self-identified mothers. ABOUT US – LITERARY MAMA About Us. Literary Mama believes that all mothers have a story worth sharing and honors the many faces of motherhood by publishing work that celebrates the journey as well as the job. We celebrate the physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual processes of becoming a mother through words and images that may be so stark ithurts.
MAY/JUNE 2021
As I read the pieces in this issue of Literary Mama, I’m reminded that the only guarantee in life is change: One mother questions hercareer choice.
POETRY – LITERARY MAMA We publish poetry that has some element of the unexpected–whether it’s the language, the imagery, or the emotion—yet feels honest. Do you have a poem that acknowledges the intensity of motherhood? Read more about submitting your work here. A REVIEW OF MOTHER MOTHER So begins the tale of Julie and Mark Cowan, the couple at the heart of Jessica O’Dwyer’s debut novel, Mother Mother, a follow-up to her best-selling memoir, Mamalita.O’Dwyer is a mother of two, now teens, adopted from Guatemala. CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we'll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts each month. If there is a ️ next to a call, that means the magazine or press is specifically looking for mother writers. We ️ IN DEFENSE OF THE RAT In Defense of the Rat. By Angela Morales. My daughter wanted a hamster — or some creature to cradle in her hands, one that would nuzzle its whiskers against her nose, take a peanut from her fingers and perform somersaults across a little trapeze. We already had UNFLINCHING HONESTY: BETH ANN FENNELLY’S TENDER HOOKS As a new mother, I seek literature that reflects my parenting experiences. Beth Ann Fennelly’s book of poems, Tender Hooks, artfully explores the wrenching beauty and pain of motherhood with humor, tenderness, and a sharp bite, as the title of her book suggests.Despite a few flaws, this is a lovely collection of poems that are unafraid to look at motherhood–and at life–with nakedhonesty.
WHY MOTHER PIGS EAT THEIR YOUNG The fictionalized dialogue blurred with my own tears. Mom had told me years later why she said that, but, while at university, I had done some research and found out that mother pigs did, indeed, sometimes eat their young, especially when they were under stress of crowding or lacking food and sanitation. LITERARY MAMACLOSEABOUT USPAST ISSUESCONTRIBUTORSDONATEOPPORTUNITIES These days, all our lives are full of uncertainty. As I read the pieces in this issue of Literary Mama, I’m reminded that the only guarantee in life is change: One mother questions her career choice. A mother contemplates her own death. Yet another navigates her shifting relationship with her adult son. As mothers, we must learn to embraceSUBMISSIONS
Submissions. Literary Mama features writing by both established and emerging writers about the complexities of motherhood. We believe in a wide-ranging understanding of motherhood as experienced through multiple lenses and bodies. We seek top-notch fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from self-identified mothers. ABOUT US – LITERARY MAMA About Us. Literary Mama believes that all mothers have a story worth sharing and honors the many faces of motherhood by publishing work that celebrates the journey as well as the job. We celebrate the physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual processes of becoming a mother through words and images that may be so stark ithurts.
MAY/JUNE 2021
As I read the pieces in this issue of Literary Mama, I’m reminded that the only guarantee in life is change: One mother questions hercareer choice.
POETRY – LITERARY MAMA We publish poetry that has some element of the unexpected–whether it’s the language, the imagery, or the emotion—yet feels honest. Do you have a poem that acknowledges the intensity of motherhood? Read more about submitting your work here. A REVIEW OF MOTHER MOTHER So begins the tale of Julie and Mark Cowan, the couple at the heart of Jessica O’Dwyer’s debut novel, Mother Mother, a follow-up to her best-selling memoir, Mamalita.O’Dwyer is a mother of two, now teens, adopted from Guatemala. CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we'll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts each month. If there is a ️ next to a call, that means the magazine or press is specifically looking for mother writers. We ️ IN DEFENSE OF THE RAT In Defense of the Rat. By Angela Morales. My daughter wanted a hamster — or some creature to cradle in her hands, one that would nuzzle its whiskers against her nose, take a peanut from her fingers and perform somersaults across a little trapeze. We already had UNFLINCHING HONESTY: BETH ANN FENNELLY’S TENDER HOOKS As a new mother, I seek literature that reflects my parenting experiences. Beth Ann Fennelly’s book of poems, Tender Hooks, artfully explores the wrenching beauty and pain of motherhood with humor, tenderness, and a sharp bite, as the title of her book suggests.Despite a few flaws, this is a lovely collection of poems that are unafraid to look at motherhood–and at life–with nakedhonesty.
WHY MOTHER PIGS EAT THEIR YOUNG The fictionalized dialogue blurred with my own tears. Mom had told me years later why she said that, but, while at university, I had done some research and found out that mother pigs did, indeed, sometimes eat their young, especially when they were under stress of crowding or lacking food and sanitation. ABOUT US – LITERARY MAMA About Us. Literary Mama believes that all mothers have a story worth sharing and honors the many faces of motherhood by publishing work that celebrates the journey as well as the job. We celebrate the physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual processes of becoming a mother through words and images that may be so stark ithurts.
MAY/JUNE 2021
As I read the pieces in this issue of Literary Mama, I’m reminded that the only guarantee in life is change: One mother questions hercareer choice.
CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS Calls for Submissions – November 2020. Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we’ll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts each month. If there is a ️ next to a call, that means the magazine or press is specifically looking for mother writers. We ️ all our Mamas! LEGACY – LITERARY MAMA Sometimes at night I look in on her, the light from the hall spilling across her angelic face. When she's sleeping, time turns. She is a child in my arms allowing me to stroke her hair. I wear tread marks in the old, wooden floors. My hands scratching each other just like mymother's. What wil
A REVIEW OF YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE EVERYTHING: POEMS FOR Divided into eight sections—Seeking, Loneliness, Attitude, Rage, Longing, Shame, Sadness, and Belonging—the collection travels across a complex range of emotional landscapes in A REVIEW OF THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES The stories in The Secret Lives of Church Ladies speak volumes about the restrictions placed on Black women, their sexuality, and their bodies. Often times, the church serves as a crucible to break them rather than heal them. Whether a churchgoing woman or not, a reader will find a familiarity in these stories that resonates deeply. A PROFILE OF AMA ATA AIDOO Aidoo was born as Christina Ama Aidoo into a royal Fanti family in Ghana in 1942. In Badoe’s documentary, the author, in her traditional head wrap, dangly earrings, and Chanel sunglasses, remembers her mother telling her stories in the early hours of the morning during her childhood. Her interest in storytelling was alsoinfluenced by the
‘MORE IMPORTANT THAN DISCRETION’: THE EDUCATION OF ANNE In 1928, Anne Morrow graduated from Smith, a women’s college in Massachusetts. With an introverted nature and a serious demeanor, Anne found great pleasure in writing. She was good at it, too. At the graduation ceremony, she was awarded the coveted Mary Augusta Jordan Prize for the most original li CRAZY BRAVE: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOY HARJO AND REVIEW OF HER Joy Harjo’s new memoir, Crazy Brave, fourteen years in the writing, continues to explore this theme, but moves from poetry to prose. She retains elements of poetry — for example, naming the four sections of the book East, North, West, and South as a respectful calling of the four directions of sacred balance — and she weaves poems and MOTHER-HUNGER: A REVIEW OF TONI MORRISON AND MOTHERHOOD: A At heart, this is a scholar’s book — written for scholars of feminism, motherhood as an academic subject, and the literature of Toni Morrison. For readers who want a less academic experience of Morrison and motherhood, I’d advise going directly to the source: Morrison’s piercingly smart interviews, collected in Conversationswith Toni
LITERARY MAMACLOSEABOUT USPAST ISSUESCONTRIBUTORSDONATEOPPORTUNITIES These days, all our lives are full of uncertainty. As I read the pieces in this issue of Literary Mama, I’m reminded that the only guarantee in life is change: One mother questions her career choice. A mother contemplates her own death. Yet another navigates her shifting relationship with her adult son. As mothers, we must learn to embraceSUBMISSIONS
Submissions. Literary Mama features writing by both established and emerging writers about the complexities of motherhood. We believe in a wide-ranging understanding of motherhood as experienced through multiple lenses and bodies. We seek top-notch fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from self-identified mothers. ABOUT US – LITERARY MAMA About Us. Literary Mama believes that all mothers have a story worth sharing and honors the many faces of motherhood by publishing work that celebrates the journey as well as the job. We celebrate the physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual processes of becoming a mother through words and images that may be so stark ithurts.
MAY/JUNE 2021
As I read the pieces in this issue of Literary Mama, I’m reminded that the only guarantee in life is change: One mother questions hercareer choice.
POETRY – LITERARY MAMA We publish poetry that has some element of the unexpected–whether it’s the language, the imagery, or the emotion—yet feels honest. Do you have a poem that acknowledges the intensity of motherhood? Read more about submitting your work here. A REVIEW OF MOTHER MOTHER So begins the tale of Julie and Mark Cowan, the couple at the heart of Jessica O’Dwyer’s debut novel, Mother Mother, a follow-up to her best-selling memoir, Mamalita.O’Dwyer is a mother of two, now teens, adopted from Guatemala. CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we'll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts each month. If there is a ️ next to a call, that means the magazine or press is specifically looking for mother writers. We ️ IN DEFENSE OF THE RAT In Defense of the Rat. By Angela Morales. My daughter wanted a hamster — or some creature to cradle in her hands, one that would nuzzle its whiskers against her nose, take a peanut from her fingers and perform somersaults across a little trapeze. We already had UNFLINCHING HONESTY: BETH ANN FENNELLY’S TENDER HOOKS As a new mother, I seek literature that reflects my parenting experiences. Beth Ann Fennelly’s book of poems, Tender Hooks, artfully explores the wrenching beauty and pain of motherhood with humor, tenderness, and a sharp bite, as the title of her book suggests.Despite a few flaws, this is a lovely collection of poems that are unafraid to look at motherhood–and at life–with nakedhonesty.
WHY MOTHER PIGS EAT THEIR YOUNG The fictionalized dialogue blurred with my own tears. Mom had told me years later why she said that, but, while at university, I had done some research and found out that mother pigs did, indeed, sometimes eat their young, especially when they were under stress of crowding or lacking food and sanitation. LITERARY MAMACLOSEABOUT USPAST ISSUESCONTRIBUTORSDONATEOPPORTUNITIES These days, all our lives are full of uncertainty. As I read the pieces in this issue of Literary Mama, I’m reminded that the only guarantee in life is change: One mother questions her career choice. A mother contemplates her own death. Yet another navigates her shifting relationship with her adult son. As mothers, we must learn to embraceSUBMISSIONS
Submissions. Literary Mama features writing by both established and emerging writers about the complexities of motherhood. We believe in a wide-ranging understanding of motherhood as experienced through multiple lenses and bodies. We seek top-notch fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from self-identified mothers. ABOUT US – LITERARY MAMA About Us. Literary Mama believes that all mothers have a story worth sharing and honors the many faces of motherhood by publishing work that celebrates the journey as well as the job. We celebrate the physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual processes of becoming a mother through words and images that may be so stark ithurts.
MAY/JUNE 2021
As I read the pieces in this issue of Literary Mama, I’m reminded that the only guarantee in life is change: One mother questions hercareer choice.
POETRY – LITERARY MAMA We publish poetry that has some element of the unexpected–whether it’s the language, the imagery, or the emotion—yet feels honest. Do you have a poem that acknowledges the intensity of motherhood? Read more about submitting your work here. A REVIEW OF MOTHER MOTHER So begins the tale of Julie and Mark Cowan, the couple at the heart of Jessica O’Dwyer’s debut novel, Mother Mother, a follow-up to her best-selling memoir, Mamalita.O’Dwyer is a mother of two, now teens, adopted from Guatemala. CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we'll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts each month. If there is a ️ next to a call, that means the magazine or press is specifically looking for mother writers. We ️ IN DEFENSE OF THE RAT In Defense of the Rat. By Angela Morales. My daughter wanted a hamster — or some creature to cradle in her hands, one that would nuzzle its whiskers against her nose, take a peanut from her fingers and perform somersaults across a little trapeze. We already had UNFLINCHING HONESTY: BETH ANN FENNELLY’S TENDER HOOKS As a new mother, I seek literature that reflects my parenting experiences. Beth Ann Fennelly’s book of poems, Tender Hooks, artfully explores the wrenching beauty and pain of motherhood with humor, tenderness, and a sharp bite, as the title of her book suggests.Despite a few flaws, this is a lovely collection of poems that are unafraid to look at motherhood–and at life–with nakedhonesty.
WHY MOTHER PIGS EAT THEIR YOUNG The fictionalized dialogue blurred with my own tears. Mom had told me years later why she said that, but, while at university, I had done some research and found out that mother pigs did, indeed, sometimes eat their young, especially when they were under stress of crowding or lacking food and sanitation. ABOUT US – LITERARY MAMA About Us. Literary Mama believes that all mothers have a story worth sharing and honors the many faces of motherhood by publishing work that celebrates the journey as well as the job. We celebrate the physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual processes of becoming a mother through words and images that may be so stark ithurts.
MAY/JUNE 2021
As I read the pieces in this issue of Literary Mama, I’m reminded that the only guarantee in life is change: One mother questions hercareer choice.
CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS Calls for Submissions – November 2020. Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we’ll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts each month. If there is a ️ next to a call, that means the magazine or press is specifically looking for mother writers. We ️ all our Mamas! LEGACY – LITERARY MAMA Sometimes at night I look in on her, the light from the hall spilling across her angelic face. When she's sleeping, time turns. She is a child in my arms allowing me to stroke her hair. I wear tread marks in the old, wooden floors. My hands scratching each other just like mymother's. What wil
A REVIEW OF YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE EVERYTHING: POEMS FOR Divided into eight sections—Seeking, Loneliness, Attitude, Rage, Longing, Shame, Sadness, and Belonging—the collection travels across a complex range of emotional landscapes in A REVIEW OF THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES The stories in The Secret Lives of Church Ladies speak volumes about the restrictions placed on Black women, their sexuality, and their bodies. Often times, the church serves as a crucible to break them rather than heal them. Whether a churchgoing woman or not, a reader will find a familiarity in these stories that resonates deeply. CRAZY BRAVE: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOY HARJO AND REVIEW OF HER Joy Harjo’s new memoir, Crazy Brave, fourteen years in the writing, continues to explore this theme, but moves from poetry to prose. She retains elements of poetry — for example, naming the four sections of the book East, North, West, and South as a respectful calling of the four directions of sacred balance — and she weaves poems and ‘MORE IMPORTANT THAN DISCRETION’: THE EDUCATION OF ANNE In 1928, Anne Morrow graduated from Smith, a women’s college in Massachusetts. With an introverted nature and a serious demeanor, Anne found great pleasure in writing. She was good at it, too. At the graduation ceremony, she was awarded the coveted Mary Augusta Jordan Prize for the most original li MOTHER-HUNGER: A REVIEW OF TONI MORRISON AND MOTHERHOOD: A At heart, this is a scholar’s book — written for scholars of feminism, motherhood as an academic subject, and the literature of Toni Morrison. For readers who want a less academic experience of Morrison and motherhood, I’d advise going directly to the source: Morrison’s piercingly smart interviews, collected in Conversationswith Toni
SHOULD WE BURN BABAR? POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND CHILDREN’S The forest-bred Babar, deprived in the story’s tenth sentence of his mother by a hunter’s gun, goes to live in the big city where “the Old Lady” gives him everything he wants — which turns out to include an emerald-green suit, spats, and a derby hat, not to mention the pastries. But, ah, the pastries! LITERARY MAMACLOSEABOUT USPAST ISSUESCONTRIBUTORSDONATEOPPORTUNITIES These days, all our lives are full of uncertainty. As I read the pieces in this issue of Literary Mama, I’m reminded that the only guarantee in life is change: One mother questions her career choice. A mother contemplates her own death. Yet another navigates her shifting relationship with her adult son. As mothers, we must learn to embraceSUBMISSIONS
Submissions. Literary Mama features writing by both established and emerging writers about the complexities of motherhood. We believe in a wide-ranging understanding of motherhood as experienced through multiple lenses and bodies. We seek top-notch fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from self-identified mothers. ABOUT US – LITERARY MAMA About Us. Literary Mama believes that all mothers have a story worth sharing and honors the many faces of motherhood by publishing work that celebrates the journey as well as the job. We celebrate the physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual processes of becoming a mother through words and images that may be so stark ithurts.
CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS Calls for Submissions – November 2020. Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we’ll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts each month. If there is a ️ next to a call, that means the magazine or press is specifically looking for mother writers. We ️ all our Mamas!MAY/JUNE 2021
As I read the pieces in this issue of Literary Mama, I’m reminded that the only guarantee in life is change: One mother questions hercareer choice.
A REVIEW OF MOTHER MOTHER So begins the tale of Julie and Mark Cowan, the couple at the heart of Jessica O’Dwyer’s debut novel, Mother Mother, a follow-up to her best-selling memoir, Mamalita.O’Dwyer is a mother of two, now teens, adopted from Guatemala. CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we'll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts each month. If there is a ️ next to a call, that means the magazine or press is specifically looking for mother writers. We ️ EXHAUSTION AND REST: MOTHERHOOD AND CREATIVITY Exhaustion and Rest: Motherhood and Creativity. By Victoria Livingstone. My seven-month-old daughter army crawls around the apartment with no apparent destination. She pulls at the corner of our living room carpet to examine its frayed edges, then drags herself diagonally across the floor to the bookshelf. From there, she zigzagsaround in a
BOOK OF STINGERS / MEDITATION ON LACING MY DAUGHTER’S ICE my fingers have a God complex they dream of prying stingers from my children's bodies and collecting them in a box, labeled by date: here is the time when mommy saved you, you remember? when you stepped on a bee the summer after first grade this one is from the time you found a wasp's nest in a tree, you were terrified! / here's another and another and another mommy saved you, look at the WHY MOTHER PIGS EAT THEIR YOUNG The fictionalized dialogue blurred with my own tears. Mom had told me years later why she said that, but, while at university, I had done some research and found out that mother pigs did, indeed, sometimes eat their young, especially when they were under stress of crowding or lacking food and sanitation. LITERARY MAMACLOSEABOUT USPAST ISSUESCONTRIBUTORSDONATEOPPORTUNITIES These days, all our lives are full of uncertainty. As I read the pieces in this issue of Literary Mama, I’m reminded that the only guarantee in life is change: One mother questions her career choice. A mother contemplates her own death. Yet another navigates her shifting relationship with her adult son. As mothers, we must learn to embraceSUBMISSIONS
Submissions. Literary Mama features writing by both established and emerging writers about the complexities of motherhood. We believe in a wide-ranging understanding of motherhood as experienced through multiple lenses and bodies. We seek top-notch fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from self-identified mothers. ABOUT US – LITERARY MAMA About Us. Literary Mama believes that all mothers have a story worth sharing and honors the many faces of motherhood by publishing work that celebrates the journey as well as the job. We celebrate the physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual processes of becoming a mother through words and images that may be so stark ithurts.
CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS Calls for Submissions – November 2020. Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we’ll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts each month. If there is a ️ next to a call, that means the magazine or press is specifically looking for mother writers. We ️ all our Mamas!MAY/JUNE 2021
As I read the pieces in this issue of Literary Mama, I’m reminded that the only guarantee in life is change: One mother questions hercareer choice.
A REVIEW OF MOTHER MOTHER So begins the tale of Julie and Mark Cowan, the couple at the heart of Jessica O’Dwyer’s debut novel, Mother Mother, a follow-up to her best-selling memoir, Mamalita.O’Dwyer is a mother of two, now teens, adopted from Guatemala. CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we'll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts each month. If there is a ️ next to a call, that means the magazine or press is specifically looking for mother writers. We ️ EXHAUSTION AND REST: MOTHERHOOD AND CREATIVITY Exhaustion and Rest: Motherhood and Creativity. By Victoria Livingstone. My seven-month-old daughter army crawls around the apartment with no apparent destination. She pulls at the corner of our living room carpet to examine its frayed edges, then drags herself diagonally across the floor to the bookshelf. From there, she zigzagsaround in a
BOOK OF STINGERS / MEDITATION ON LACING MY DAUGHTER’S ICE my fingers have a God complex they dream of prying stingers from my children's bodies and collecting them in a box, labeled by date: here is the time when mommy saved you, you remember? when you stepped on a bee the summer after first grade this one is from the time you found a wasp's nest in a tree, you were terrified! / here's another and another and another mommy saved you, look at the WHY MOTHER PIGS EAT THEIR YOUNG The fictionalized dialogue blurred with my own tears. Mom had told me years later why she said that, but, while at university, I had done some research and found out that mother pigs did, indeed, sometimes eat their young, especially when they were under stress of crowding or lacking food and sanitation. POETRY – LITERARY MAMA We publish poetry that has some element of the unexpected–whether it’s the language, the imagery, or the emotion—yet feels honest. Do you have a poem that acknowledges the intensity of motherhood? Read more about submitting your work here. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: LITERARY REFLECTIONS Please also review our General Submission Guidelines before sending submissions of 1,500-3,500 words to LMreflections (at) literarymama (dot) com in the text of an email (no attachments), along with a brief cover letter. Include the word “Literary Reflections Submission” in the subject line. We typically respond within four to six weeks. RITUAL – LITERARY MAMA Sunday afternoon and my turn to kneel on the creaky yellow kitchen step stool and bow over the sink, unspool my locks into the clean pool, the white enamel basin. Two rust eyes blink from the bottom. I bend my neck for Mother's blessing. I might be clay. I might be dough. Her pulsing soap-slick BOOK OF STINGERS / MEDITATION ON LACING MY DAUGHTER’S ICE my fingers have a God complex they dream of prying stingers from my children's bodies and collecting them in a box, labeled by date: here is the time when mommy saved you, you remember? when you stepped on a bee the summer after first grade this one is from the time you found a wasp's nest in a tree, you were terrified! / here's another and another and another mommy saved you, look at the SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: CREATIVE NONFICTION Editors: Maria Gupta and Kate Haas LMnonfiction (at) literarymama (dot) com We seek essays of all kinds (lyrical, personal, memoir, braided, flash) that focus on motherhood. For examples of what we are looking for, please read our previously published Creative Nonfiction pieces. What We Are Lookin A REVIEW OF THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES The stories in The Secret Lives of Church Ladies speak volumes about the restrictions placed on Black women, their sexuality, and their bodies. Often times, the church serves as a crucible to break them rather than heal them. Whether a churchgoing woman or not, a reader will find a familiarity in these stories that resonates deeply. THE SECRET LIFE OF A VANISHING DREAM I used to believe in the power of unlimited opportunity, that if my children liked one marinara sauce, then surely they’d like the next. Just like I once believed life was like a series of beautifullyfurnished rooms,
UNFLINCHING HONESTY: BETH ANN FENNELLY’S TENDER HOOKS As a new mother, I seek literature that reflects my parenting experiences. Beth Ann Fennelly’s book of poems, Tender Hooks, artfully explores the wrenching beauty and pain of motherhood with humor, tenderness, and a sharp bite, as the title of her book suggests.Despite a few flaws, this is a lovely collection of poems that are unafraid to look at motherhood–and at life–with nakedhonesty.
SHELIA COOPER
Shelia Cooper received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. She also holds an MA in English and African American literature. A born educator, Shelia taught literature, writing and creative writing at Bennett College and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina for the past eleven yearscombined.
MOTHER-HUNGER: A REVIEW OF TONI MORRISON AND MOTHERHOOD: A At heart, this is a scholar’s book — written for scholars of feminism, motherhood as an academic subject, and the literature of Toni Morrison. For readers who want a less academic experience of Morrison and motherhood, I’d advise going directly to the source: Morrison’s piercingly smart interviews, collected in Conversationswith Toni
LITERARY MAMACLOSEABOUT USPAST ISSUESCONTRIBUTORSDONATEOPPORTUNITIES These days, all our lives are full of uncertainty. As I read the pieces in this issue of Literary Mama, I’m reminded that the only guarantee in life is change: One mother questions her career choice. A mother contemplates her own death. Yet another navigates her shifting relationship with her adult son. As mothers, we must learn to embrace ARTICLES – LITERARY MAMA A Review of You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves. The poetic voices in this visually appealing collection give adolescent girls, and their mothers, permission to boldly be true to themselves. Reviews | May/June 2021 | By Shanta Lee Gander. Posts navigation.SUBMISSIONS
Submissions. Literary Mama features writing by both established and emerging writers about the complexities of motherhood. We believe in a wide-ranging understanding of motherhood as experienced through multiple lenses and bodies. We seek top-notch fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from self-identified mothers. ABOUT US – LITERARY MAMACALLS FOR LITERARY SUBMISSIONS About Us. Literary Mama believes that all mothers have a story worth sharing and honors the many faces of motherhood by publishing work that celebrates the journey as well as the job. We celebrate the physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual processes of becoming a mother through words and images that may be so stark ithurts.
CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS Calls for Submissions – November 2020. Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we’ll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts each month. If there is a ️ next to a call, that means the magazine or press is specifically looking for mother writers. We ️ all our Mamas! POETRY – LITERARY MAMAPOETRY LITERARY GENREPOETRY LITERARY TERMLITERARY MAMA MAGAZINELITERARY MAMA SUBMISSIONS We publish poetry that has some element of the unexpected–whether it’s the language, the imagery, or the emotion—yet feels honest. Do you have a poem that acknowledges the intensity of motherhood? Read more about submitting your work here. A REVIEW OF MOTHER MOTHER So begins the tale of Julie and Mark Cowan, the couple at the heart of Jessica O’Dwyer’s debut novel, Mother Mother, a follow-up to her best-selling memoir, Mamalita.O’Dwyer is a mother of two, now teens, adopted from Guatemala. UNFLINCHING HONESTY: BETH ANN FENNELLY’S TENDER HOOKS As a new mother, I seek literature that reflects my parenting experiences. Beth Ann Fennelly’s book of poems, Tender Hooks, artfully explores the wrenching beauty and pain of motherhood with humor, tenderness, and a sharp bite, as the title of her book suggests.Despite a few flaws, this is a lovely collection of poems that are unafraid to look at motherhood–and at life–with nakedhonesty.
WHY MOTHER PIGS EAT THEIR YOUNG The fictionalized dialogue blurred with my own tears. Mom had told me years later why she said that, but, while at university, I had done some research and found out that mother pigs did, indeed, sometimes eat their young, especially when they were under stress of crowding or lacking food and sanitation. MOTHER-HUNGER: A REVIEW OF TONI MORRISON AND MOTHERHOOD: A At heart, this is a scholar’s book — written for scholars of feminism, motherhood as an academic subject, and the literature of Toni Morrison. For readers who want a less academic experience of Morrison and motherhood, I’d advise going directly to the source: Morrison’s piercingly smart interviews, collected in Conversationswith Toni
LITERARY MAMACLOSEABOUT USPAST ISSUESCONTRIBUTORSDONATEOPPORTUNITIES These days, all our lives are full of uncertainty. As I read the pieces in this issue of Literary Mama, I’m reminded that the only guarantee in life is change: One mother questions her career choice. A mother contemplates her own death. Yet another navigates her shifting relationship with her adult son. As mothers, we must learn to embrace ARTICLES – LITERARY MAMA A Review of You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves. The poetic voices in this visually appealing collection give adolescent girls, and their mothers, permission to boldly be true to themselves. Reviews | May/June 2021 | By Shanta Lee Gander. Posts navigation.SUBMISSIONS
Submissions. Literary Mama features writing by both established and emerging writers about the complexities of motherhood. We believe in a wide-ranging understanding of motherhood as experienced through multiple lenses and bodies. We seek top-notch fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from self-identified mothers. ABOUT US – LITERARY MAMACALLS FOR LITERARY SUBMISSIONS About Us. Literary Mama believes that all mothers have a story worth sharing and honors the many faces of motherhood by publishing work that celebrates the journey as well as the job. We celebrate the physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual processes of becoming a mother through words and images that may be so stark ithurts.
CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS Calls for Submissions – November 2020. Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we’ll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts each month. If there is a ️ next to a call, that means the magazine or press is specifically looking for mother writers. We ️ all our Mamas! POETRY – LITERARY MAMAPOETRY LITERARY GENREPOETRY LITERARY TERMLITERARY MAMA MAGAZINELITERARY MAMA SUBMISSIONS We publish poetry that has some element of the unexpected–whether it’s the language, the imagery, or the emotion—yet feels honest. Do you have a poem that acknowledges the intensity of motherhood? Read more about submitting your work here. A REVIEW OF MOTHER MOTHER So begins the tale of Julie and Mark Cowan, the couple at the heart of Jessica O’Dwyer’s debut novel, Mother Mother, a follow-up to her best-selling memoir, Mamalita.O’Dwyer is a mother of two, now teens, adopted from Guatemala. UNFLINCHING HONESTY: BETH ANN FENNELLY’S TENDER HOOKS As a new mother, I seek literature that reflects my parenting experiences. Beth Ann Fennelly’s book of poems, Tender Hooks, artfully explores the wrenching beauty and pain of motherhood with humor, tenderness, and a sharp bite, as the title of her book suggests.Despite a few flaws, this is a lovely collection of poems that are unafraid to look at motherhood–and at life–with nakedhonesty.
WHY MOTHER PIGS EAT THEIR YOUNG The fictionalized dialogue blurred with my own tears. Mom had told me years later why she said that, but, while at university, I had done some research and found out that mother pigs did, indeed, sometimes eat their young, especially when they were under stress of crowding or lacking food and sanitation. MOTHER-HUNGER: A REVIEW OF TONI MORRISON AND MOTHERHOOD: A At heart, this is a scholar’s book — written for scholars of feminism, motherhood as an academic subject, and the literature of Toni Morrison. For readers who want a less academic experience of Morrison and motherhood, I’d advise going directly to the source: Morrison’s piercingly smart interviews, collected in Conversationswith Toni
ARTICLES – LITERARY MAMA A Review of You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves. The poetic voices in this visually appealing collection give adolescent girls, and their mothers, permission to boldly be true to themselves. Reviews | May/June 2021 | By Shanta Lee Gander. Posts navigation. ISSUES – LITERARY MAMA May/June 2021. As I read the pieces in this issue of Literary Mama, I’m reminded that the only guarantee in life is change: One mother questions her career choice. A mother contemplates her own death. Yet another navigates her shifting relationship with her adult son. As mothers, we must learn to embrace each moment, while also letting goof
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As I read the pieces in this issue of Literary Mama, I’m reminded that the only guarantee in life is change: One mother questions hercareer choice.
PROFILES – LITERARY MAMA We publish profiles of writers who are mothers, writers who write about motherhood, and writers who have something to say to mothers. This includes well-known, living mama writers, of course, but also off-beat, lesser-known, not-so-obvious mama writers. Read more here. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: LITERARY REFLECTIONS Please also review our General Submission Guidelines before sending submissions of 1,500-3,500 words to LMreflections (at) literarymama (dot) com in the text of an email (no attachments), along with a brief cover letter. Include the word “Literary Reflections Submission” in the subject line. We typically respond within four to six weeks. A REVIEW OF THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES The stories in The Secret Lives of Church Ladies speak volumes about the restrictions placed on Black women, their sexuality, and their bodies. Often times, the church serves as a crucible to break them rather than heal them. Whether a churchgoing woman or not, a reader will find a familiarity in these stories that resonates deeply. IN DEFENSE OF THE RAT I decided to begin an official campaign for Rattus rattus.Every day, in an attempt to erase those images of the Black Death, I e-mailed Patrick pictures of cute rats I’d found on the internet: a rat wearing a little bow tie and tuxedo; a rat wearing little pajamas and holding a little teddy bear; a rat wearing a bonnet and pushing a miniature baby stroller. MOTHER-HUNGER: A REVIEW OF TONI MORRISON AND MOTHERHOOD: A At heart, this is a scholar’s book — written for scholars of feminism, motherhood as an academic subject, and the literature of Toni Morrison. For readers who want a less academic experience of Morrison and motherhood, I’d advise going directly to the source: Morrison’s piercingly smart interviews, collected in Conversationswith Toni
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These days, all our lives are full of uncertainty. As I read the pieces in this issue of Literary Mama, I’m reminded that the only guarantee in life is change: One mother questions her career choice. A mother contemplates her own death. Yet another navigates her shifting relationship with her adult son. As mothers, we must learn to embrace each moment, while also letting go of our children at every turn.Read the Issue
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