20 Years of Publishing Online with Literary Mama
In Episode 69, we’re welcoming editors from Literary Mama, an online publication that 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. Released six times a year, issues of Literary Mama feature creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, essays, book reviews, and profiles. Our conversation explores the merit of creating a space on the internet specifically to empower the voices of mothers, as well as the twenty-year history of the publication and how the online landscape has changed during that time.
Joining us are writers and editors Amanda Jaros and Amanda Fields.
Bio:
Amanda Jaros is a freelance writer and editor living in Ithaca, NY. Her memoir about hiking the Appalachian Trail, titled In My Boots, will be published in early 2024 by Running Wild Press. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines including Flyway, Terrain.org, Newfound, Highlights for Children, and Cargo Literary. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Chatham University. Amanda served as a blog editor, creative nonfiction editor, senior editor, and editor in chief at Literary Mama. She is now the president of the nonprofit Literary Mama board.
Amanda Fields is an Assistant Professor of English and Writing Center Director at Central Connecticut State University as well as the Editor-in-Chief of Literary Mama. She is a single mom with an almost-10 year old, wonderful kid. She co-edited My Caesarean: Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After with The Experiment Press, which was a Silver winner of the 2019 Foreword INDIES, as well as the book Toward, Around, and Away From Tahrir: Tracking Emerging Expressions of Egyptian Identity. Her writing and research have been published in Brevity, Indiana Review, So to Speak, Nashville Review, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, The Writing Center Journal, The Peer Review, Children's Literature Quarterly, Sexuality Research and Social Policy, Journal of Adolescent Research, and others.
Links from this episode:
Connect with Amanda Jaros: www.amandakjaros.com and https://www.instagram.com/amandajaroschampion/
Connect with Amanda Fields: https://directory.ccsu.edu/person/amanda-fields-mfa-phd
and https://www.instagram.com/@shanachie437
My Caesarean, Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After
by Amanda Fields, Rachel Moritz
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