celebrating, promoting, & nurturing mama writing & writers at https://literarymama.com/ since 2003 Podcast, This Mama Is Lit! at: https://literarymama.substack.com/s/this-mama-is-lit Subscribe for our newsletter at: https://literarymama.substack.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mwnvnef4yc25After years of amazing editing, our audio editor, @joannagarbutt.bsky.social, is stepping away from This Mama Is Lit!, and we're looking for a new team member: https://literarymama.com/opportunities29 Sep 2026 13:10 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwnvnef4yc25https://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mwstv7rjp22i***NEW EPISODE!!!*** Sam Field and Tiffanie Drayton talk with @mcrane12.bsky.social, author of Perverts, about challenging the concept of perversion, finding connection, and exploring parenthood & the creative process. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: https://literarymama.substack.com/p/mac-crane-embracing-the-chaos-of?r=2agmlt&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web01 Oct 2026 12:21 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwstv7rjp22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mwqvop2ef22i"Sometimes I swear I can hear flowers drinking. Their root hairs absorb a precious portion." - from Angela Sucich's poem, "No Word for a Mother Who’s Lost an Unborn Child," in our September/October issue: https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/09/no-word-for-a-mother-whos-lost-an-unborn-child30 Sep 2026 17:48 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqvop2ef22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mwqf57di4s2xOur 2027 Best Small Fictions nominations: https://literarymama.com/blog/archives/2026/09/nominations-for-2027-best-small-fictions-anthology.html30 Sep 2026 12:52 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqf57di4s2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mwomjztyb22x https://sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/33-understanding-rape-prone-by-design?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=email&embedding_publication_id=200000129 Sep 2026 19:59 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwomjztyb22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mwnvnef4yc25After years of amazing editing, our audio editor, @joannagarbutt.bsky.social, is stepping away from This Mama Is Lit!, and we're looking for a new team member: https://literarymama.com/opportunities29 Sep 2026 13:10 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwnvnef4yc25https://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mwnrvslbzs25"But no mother moved through the space as if my recovery belonged to her, too." Abiola Oyeniran reflects on postpartum life in Nigeria and the U.S. in our September/October issue: https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/09/when-a-mother-needs-mothering29 Sep 2026 12:03 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwnrvslbzs25https://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mwliaua7mc2m"Critically inspecting the impact of mommy influencers allows us to consider how twenty-first-century motherhood can be reduced to snapshots designed to appease the algorithm." @katherinemurray.bsky.social reviews Caro Claire Burke's Yesteryear in our Sept/Oct issue: https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/09/motherhood-is-its-own-kind-of-curation-a-review-of-caro-claire-burkes-yesteryear28 Sep 2026 14:05 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwliaua7mc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mwiw4dt37k2m"...as a mother, I have had moments where I’ve felt like I’ve lost parts of myself and that’s a bummer" Alison Damast Dolinger interviews Lindsey Goldstein, author of Gap Year: A Novel, in our September/October issue: https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/09/moms-can-have-gap-years-too-a-conversation-with-lindsey-goldstein27 Sep 2026 13:35 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwiw4dt37k2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mwdwujtor222"If you pin them on their backs, I learn, bunnies will go limp, feigning death. / Perhaps if I do the same, this blessing will pass my lintel by? / Or will I be called upon to rise to the task of unconditional love one more time?" -from Julia Smuts Louw's poem, "Rabbit Test," in our Sept/Oct issue: https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/09/rabbit-test25 Sep 2026 14:05 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwdwujtor222https://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mwb7xd6hvk2i"I was aware enough of the traumas that I had been carrying not just generationally, but also very personally as I was a child of war for years." Leila Farjami, author of Daughter of Salt @triohousepress.org, on This Mama Is Lit! https://literarymama.substack.com/p/leila-farjami-healing-the-mother?r=2agmlt&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web24 Sep 2026 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwb7xd6hvk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mw6zfbitkc2t"'Danny boy,' I say, which is what I’ve been calling him since the first day he came into the apartment, calling out from the doorway like he was afraid I might come out shooting." - from Kristina Jipson's saucy story, "Pony Ride," in our Sept/Oct issue: https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/09/pony-ride23 Sep 2026 15:07 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw6zfbitkc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mw6z5vv24c2tHappy Bi Visibility Day!23 Sep 2026 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw6z5vv24c2thttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mw4c5av3u22d"We are always dying and I want to know you as well as I know the word blueberry" - from Rebecca Clarren's poem, "The Anchovies," in our September/October issue: https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/09/the-anchovies22 Sep 2026 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw4c5av3u22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mw2i3dslpc2dLM staff @cvittitoe.bsky.social, @jeanschwab.bsky.social, @katherinemurray.bsky.social, Ty Mcleod, and Amanda Fields weigh in on AI (spoiler alert: yuck): https://literarymama.com/blog/archives/2026/09/some-literary-mama-thoughts-on-artificial-intelligence-ai.html21 Sep 2026 19:46 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw2i3dslpc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mvzmuofzcc2n"I always want sleep. Every moment, it feels, I want sleep for you, and I want sleep for me." - from Alice Froemling's flash essay, "Sleep," in our September/October issue: https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/09/sleep-221 Sep 2026 11:39 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvzmuofzcc2n