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Excerpt from Dick Cummins’ WIP
Moms Know Best By Dick Cummins Dick is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a regular contributor to this blog. This is an excerpt from his unpublished memoir. It was a Sunday morning in 1950 and I was seven years old. It was Mother’s Day too and my father was in the [...]
A Poem in Homage
Poem for Mom By Priscilla Galligan Priscilla Galligan (@cillagalligan) is a researcher, grant and freelance writer. She has [...]
Virginia Woolf as Mother
Portrait of the Artist as a Mother By Geri Lipschultz We Wanted to Be Writers’ call for favorite literary moms struck me, and famous mothers paraded by, mothers like the mother of Marcel, The Stranger’s mother who died, Akhmatova as mother, Toni Morrison’s Sethe—many mothers there are, and I thought of Molly Bloom as mother, [...]
Books by Don Wallace’s Mom’s Bed
Don Wallace is a former classmate from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a regular contributor to this blog. My mother, Elizabeth, was a great reader; as I described at her service this last February, she loaded up her bedside table with piles of books knowing this would lure me in to sample something I’d [...]
From Ross Howell for Mother’s Day
Wash Day By Ross Howell Ross followed a career in academic fundraising, public relations, book publishing, and marketing after receiving his MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He’s now freelancing non-fiction and fiction, and teaching at Elon University. He lives in Greensboro, NC, with his wife, Mary Leigh, English cocker spaniel diva, Pinot, and rescued pit [...]
Excerpt from Kurt Sipolski’s Novella
Kurt Sipolski began writing as a reporter in Sydney, Australia. His work has appeared in The Desert Sun, Palm Springs Life magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the International Herald Tribune, and many other publications. He founded and published San Francisco Gentry magazine. The memoir on which Too Early for Flowers is based has been published [...]
Moms in Lit
Responding to our invitation to include noteworthy mothers in literature in our May Mom Project, Gary Iorio recalled, In one of Vance’s [Bourjaily] classes we were doing ‘Comic Novels,’ or ‘Humor In Literature.’ We read A Mother’s Kisses by Bruce Jay Friedman. The mom’s name was Meg, and she was unforgettable. I can’t nominate the mother from The Grapes [...]
Book Giveaway
The Mom Project In honor of the inimitable place they occupy, we’re putting mothers front and center all month. Tell us about your favorite mom in literature—including why you love or hate her—to be entered into a drawing for one of three copies of We Wanted to Be Writers (Sophie Portnoy in Portnoy’s Complaint, anyone?). Already [...]
Our May Newsletter Is Out!
Mother’s Day is just around the corner, and we have a sure-to-be-loved gift suggestion: the monthly We Wanted to Be Writers e-newsletter!* Where else will you find an endless supply of reading recommendations of all genres (from our popular “Books by the Bed” series), advice for writers, reviews, news from the front lines of the rapidly-evolving [...]
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