Write On, Mamas – Looking Back At A Great Year

We also performed at Lit Crawl for the second year running, and ended up shouting our carefully written essays standing on a window sill in a busy and noise taqueria in the Mission. What fun!

Five of our members were asked to read at the Local Women Writers Series at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts.

Mamas:

Lorrie Goldin

* Readings: Lit Crawl – Write On, Mamas “Let Go or Be Dragged”

* Skirt.com: essays – Out of the Box

* Radio: KQED’s Perspectives: 5 essays – “Summer of My Dreams”; “Homeland Security”; “Good Guns, Bad Guns”; “Abortion Rights”; and “Healthcare for the Holidays”

* East Bay Monthly Summer 2013 Essay contest winner: What I Miss

Claire Hennessy

* Readings:Litquake: Band of Women “Transitions” and Lit Crawl: Write On Mamas “Let Go or Be Dragged”

* A Band of Women’s Transitions Anthology: “Oral Sex”

Mary Hill

* Readings: Lit Crawl – Write On, Mamas “Let Go or Be Dragged”

Laurel Hilton

* Finalist in Notes and Words essay contest – “Freedom at the End of a Gun”

* Readings: Lit Crawl – Write On, Mamas “Let Go or Be Dragged”, and Local Women Writers Series at O’Hanlon

* A Band of Women’s Anthology, Transitions: “Freedom at the End of a Gun”

* Parents Press: Article – “Successful Family Living in San Francisco”

Janine Kovac

* Readings: Litquake – curated Write On, Mamas at Lit Crawl, read at Barely Published and Womens Night: “The Good, The Bad and the Untidy”, and Local Women Writers Series at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts

* Literary Mama: Profile of Kate Hopper

* Pregnancy and Newborn Magazine: Winner of essay contest on unexpected beginnings

* LitCamp: Blog contributor

* Salon: Essay – “Dear Internet: Sorry about the motherhood post”

Leslie Lagerstrom

* Finalist in Notes and Words essay contest: “The Shopping Trip”

* Huffington Post: 5 essays – “Parts UnKnown”; “Can You Hear Me Now”; “Meeting Sam’s Teachers”; “The Dance”; and “To Go Or Not To Go, That is the Question”

* Readings: Litquake – Band of Women “Transitions”

Marianne Lonsdale

* Readings: Lit Crawl – Write On, Mamas “Let Go or Be Dragged” and Local Women Writers Series at O’Hanlon

Center for the Arts, Temescal Writers

* Literary Mama: Profile of Brooke Warner, and blog contributor

* Foster City International Writers’ Contest: First place winner in fiction for short story, “The Dinner”

* Left Coast Writers Roadwork column: Essay – “Electronic Withdrawal in the American Wild”

Li Miao Lovett

* Readings: Lit Crawl – Write On, Mamas “Let Go or Be Dragged”

* Grant recipient from the Fund for Investigative Journalism to develop radio segment on farmworkers and pesticides

* Emerging Writers Fellowship from the The Writers Center in Maryland contest, finalist for pages from her novel, “In The Lap of the Gods”

Dorothy O’Donnell

* Brain, Child: Essay – “A Label She Loves”

* Great Schools: Essays and video series – “Raising a Child with Mental Illness: What I’d Wish I’d Known”; and “Dancing in the Rain: The Story of a Bipolar Child”

* Readings: Local Women Writers Series at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts

* Radio: KQED’s Perspectives – “Erase the Stigma”

Jessica O’Dwyer

* Readings: Local Women Writers Series at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts

* Motherlode blog: New York Times – Essay – “An Adoptive Parent Won’t Take the Blame”

* Adoption Constellation magazine: Essay – “On The Trip to Maine”

Beth Touchette

* Readings: Lit Crawl – Write On, Mamas “Let Go or Be Dragged”

* Radio: KQED’s Perspectives – “The Silent, Circular Ride”

* How It Is column x 2 in the Marin Independent Journal: “With beauty, we all have our day in the sun”; and

“Revisiting stages of childhood with teens on vacation”

Pamela Weymouth

* Readings: Lit Crawl – Write On, Mamas “Let Go or Be Dragged”