Literary Mama

Literary Mama is a publication that comes out every two months, showcasing the work of mothers who write about the diverse experiences and challenges of motherhood. We are looking for high-quality creative pieces, including fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Additionally, we include columns, book reviews, profiles of mother writers and artists, guest blog entries, and original photography to enhance our offerings.

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Hold On to Connection: A Conversation with Casey Mulligan Walsh

3 weeks ago | literarymama.com | Tess Clarkson |Casey Walsh

Casey Mulligan Walsh, author of the memoir The Full Catastrophe(Motina Books, February 2025), is an essayist, founding editor of In a Flashliterary magazine, board member of the Family Heart Foundation, retired speech-language pathologist, mother, and grandmother. Her essays have been published in The New York Times, Split Lip Magazine, HuffPost, and more, and she’s been nominated for the Best of the Net. She lives in upstate New York with her husband.
Relaunching "Mama And..."

2 months ago | literarymama.com | Carrie Vittitoe

The hiatus of Literary Mama gave staff time to pause, and from that pause came some realizations as Editor-in-Chief Amanda Fields noted in the Jan/Feb 2025 issue. What community looks like has changed since 2020, and it continues to change, but that doesn’t mean that community isn’t needed. In fact, it seems that people have an even greater craving for connection and camaraderie than ever before.
Literary Reflections: Call for Submissions

Jan 21, 2025 | literarymama.com | Femi Lewis

As mothers who embrace the power of reading and writing about motherhood, we all know it is a journey filled with pride, pain, discovery, and a constant need to decompress. That’s why the Literary Reflections team is excited to hear from you. The department is currently accepting essays exploring the varied experiences of mothers who happen to be writers for the March/April Issue.
Get posted/Get published: December 2024

Dec 7, 2024 | literarymama.com | Carrie Vittitoe

If you need time away from family celebrations and holiday shopping this month, here are some excuses you can use for your solitary writing spells. Boulevard’s 2024 short fiction contest is for writers who have not yet published a book of fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction with a nationally distributed press. Deadline is Dec 31, 2024.
Literary Mama: Revision and Reimagining

Sep 11, 2024 | literarymama.com | Carrie Vittitoe

September 11, 2024 | Blog | Writing and motherhood have commonalities. Both involve a birthing—of ideas or babies. At times, both demand more from us than what we feel we have the supply to give; we spend long nights, early mornings, and weary afternoons managing them. They require us to adapt and grow in every way imaginable.
Notes From Labor of Love: Holly Rizzuto Palker

Mar 10, 2024 | literarymama.com | Holly Rizzuto Palker

March 11, 2024 | Blog | I was excited when Amanda Jaros asked for anthology essay submissions from the staff. I knew I wanted to write about my youngest daughter and our connection to spending time at our beach house. It was also nagging at me that I couldn’t part with a toy tent in our living room there, so I wanted to unpack my feelings about it.
Notes From Labor of Love: Suzanne Kamata

Mar 7, 2024 | literarymama.com | Suzanne Kamata

March 8, 2024 | Blog | My Japanese husband and I live off the beaten track in Shikoku, where few people are fluent in English. I can speak Japanese, but even before our twins were born, I was planning to raise our children bilingually. I wanted to be able to converse with them in my native language, and I knew that learning a second language at a young age would give them a leg up in the world.
Notes From Labor of Love: Carrie Vittitoe

Feb 11, 2024 | literarymama.com | Carrie Vittitoe

Writing “The Things This Mother Carries” was not easy, nor was it fun. It was verydifferent from the writing I’ve done for the past 13 years as a freelancer in my community which,I admit, has become so second-nature I don’t have to think too much or work too hard to get itdone. Developing and editing my essay for Labor of Love: A Literary Mama Anthology mademe realize that I haven’t really pushed myself out of my writing comfort zone.
Notes from Labor of Love: Andrea Lani

Feb 9, 2024 | literarymama.com | Andrea Lani

Eighteen years ago, I sat in my bed with a giant foam horseshoe strapped around my waist, weighed down by two hefty, tandem-feeding newborns. My four-year-old son stood in the doorway and wailed, “Why do the babies get their breakfast before I do?” Meanwhile, outside my window, the rainy days of May unfolded into the jungle-green of June and the heat of July. A year earlier, I’d pictured myself climbing mountains, one baby strapped to my chest, firstborn hiking at my side.
That Impossible Place: A Conversation with Kelly McMasters

Jan 26, 2024 | literarymama.com | Margo Steines |Kelly McMasters

The Leaving SeasonBy Kelly McMastersW. W. Norton (2023) There are parts of Kelly McMasters’ memoir-in-essays, The Leaving Season, that could have been written about my own life. We shared the experience of having left New York City with rage-prone, iconoclastic artists, and we both eventually had to get out of those relationships in order to maintain our selfhoods.