Hard-Earned Patience: An Interview with Hannah Grieco
July 29th, 2026 | by Samantha Paige Rosen
We are exhausted and sad, yet somehow supposed to be fiercely independent
Browsing the "writing" Tag
Processing Trauma Through Personal Narrative: An Interview with Bridey Thelen-Heidel
October 1st, 2024 | by Jen Bryant
How do you grieve a person who’s alive? How do you truly let them go
From Start to Finish
March 26th, 2024 | by India Akua Mendonca
While I love being a mother to my daughter, it’s hard to reconcile who I used to be — a writer — with who I am now
Spilling Your Guts: Motherhood, Memoir, and What I Learned from David Sedaris
February 27th, 2024 | by Irena Smith
I would rewrite the autism narrative. It would be literate, snarky, dark, and funny. The subtext, of course, was that our extraordinary child would also recover, though I would never use that word.
Writing From the Center: A Conversation with Maggie Smith
July 27th, 2023 | by Jen Bryant
"I somewhat naively believed that if I applied enough thinking and feeling and time and energy towards somehow solving the problem of my marriage falling apart, that by the time I got done with the book, I would get it — I would understand what happened, and I would be able to set it down."
Why More Parents Should Let Teens Read Sex Scenes
July 11th, 2023 | by Kerry Chaput
If popular culture exposed me to sex as a positive experience, maybe I wouldn’t have been so afraid
Swagger Like Us
July 5th, 2023 | by Sumitra Mattai
Our first child was two years old when my husband told me I’d “lost my swagger.”
“Our hopes for healing must be bigger than ourselves”: An Interview With Poet Eugenia Leigh
April 13th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
Those mama bear metaphors are spot-on. I will do anything to protect my child. And now, I’m finally pissed off at all the people who did not protect me
Graffiti Mom: MOMZ1
November 7th, 2022 | by Lisa Hanson
In his teen years before he moved out, I was often up in the night or would jerk awake with the image of him falling, unable to return to sleep again
Privacy, Erasure, and Consent as a Writing Mother
October 25th, 2022 | by Christy Tending
What started out as a deliberate but straightforward choice for our child has had unexpected consequences