*NEW EPISODE!* Rage Against the Patriarchy Amanda Fields & Sam Field talk w @laraehrlich.bsky.social, author of Bind Me Tighter Still:

And continuing our thanks to our March authors #MikkiAronoff @joannagarbutt.bsky.social @ddgwriter.bsky.social @ekmacdonald.bsky.social @chriscottom.bsky.social #SusmitaMukherjee @writesofkathryn.bsky.social. To catch up please click on the link below and enjoy

***NEW EPISODE!*** Amanda Fields & @evalangston.bsky.social talk w @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social, author of Perforated, about impossible wishes & material fears in parenting & poetry. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts:

"It is dark except for the headlights illuminating the single-track road the car has just departed." This is Where I Leave You by Joanna Garbutt @joannagarbutt.bsky.social #shortstory #readingcommunity. Please click on the link below and enjoy

Thrilled to see my story, This is Where I Leave You, published today! Thank you so much @fictivedream.bsky.social

We're delighted to welcome Joanna Garbutt with her #shortstory This is Where I Leave You, out tomorrow @joannagarbutt.bsky.social #fiction #readingcommunity

A couple of years ago, I worked on a project at Anglia Ruskin University regarding the use of VR to engage young people in discussions around knife crime. This week, we've just had our paper published exploring what we found: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....

***NEW EPISODE!*** @evalangston.bsky.social & Amanda Fields talk w @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social, author of The Beheading Game, about rewriting Anne Boleyn through the lens of motherhood and bringing a poetry background to novel-writing.

@joannagarbutt.bsky.social reviews Helen Charman's Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood:

***NEW EPISODE*** Don't miss the inimitable @karenpalmer.bsky.social, author of She's Under Here! Palmer talks w Amanda Fields & @evalangston.bsky.social about DIY witness protection and pulling herself and her family out of abuse:

We're thrilled to say we're now OPEN for submissions until midnight on March 1st (or until we hit 500 submissions)! Send us your most original, most exciting, most innovative short stories, up to 5,000 words - we can't wait to read your work! www.shortfictionjournal.co.uk/subs

We're looking for new staff in the profiles and podcast departments, as well as a managing editor, social media editor, and publisher. Please share with anyone who may be interested!

It's a good day to read about Helen Charman's Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood, reviewed by @joannagarbutt.bsky.social in our Jan/Feb issue:

***NEW EPISODE*** @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social and Amanda Fields talk with Robyn Kozlowitz, author of Post Traumatic Parenting, about using guilt as a teacher, discovering how stress and trauma affect parenting, and creating patterns of joy. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts:

Great new issue of Literary Mama which also includes my review of Helen Charman's Mother State.

***NEW EPISODE!*** @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social & @evalangston.bsky.social talk with @michellelernerauth.bsky.social, author of Ring, about defining and treating complicated grief, living with irreparable damage, and finding healing in nature.

***NEW EPISODE*** Claire Adam, author of Love Forms, talks w Amanda Fields & @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social about writing a novel about a forced delivery in Venezuela, living in multiple places, & testing the mother-child bond in fiction.

***NEW EPISODE!*** Brittany Micka-Foos, author of It's No Fun Anymore, talks w Amanda Fields & @evalangston.bsky.social about domestic horror tropes, neurodiversity diagnoses, and, of course, writing and motherhood:

Really happy to see my story, Toothache, has been published today in Orange Blossom Review. orangeblossomreview.org/journal/2813/

***NEW EPISODE!*** Domenica Ruta, author of All the Mothers, talks w Amanda Fields & @evalangston.bsky.social about the ecosystem of single mothers. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts:

***NEW EPISODE!!!*** @evalangston.bsky.social & Amanda Fields talk with Jessie Harrold, author of Mothershift, about matrescence - the process of becoming a mother, the four radical transformations, and the seven mother powers:

***NEW EPISODE*** @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social and @evalangston.bsky.social talk with @lizalterman.bsky.social author of Sad Sacked, about the perils and freedoms of unemployment, the dichotomy of working moms, and the need to write the book you want to read.

***NEW EPISODE!!!*** Amanda Fields & @evalangston.bsky.social talk with @jessicaslice.bsky.social, author of Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges An Inaccessible World (@beaconpress.bsky.social), on This Mama Is Lit!

***NEW EPISODE!*** Natasha Williams: Love and Schizophrenia @evalangston.bsky.social & @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social talk with @natashawwrites.bsky.social, author of The Parts of Him I Kept, about parenting her father through schizophrenia and healing through memoir.

***NEW EPISODE!!!*** @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social & Amanda Fields talk with Abigail Leonard, author of Four Mothers: An Intimate Journey Through the First Year of Parenthood in Four Countries, about politicizing motherhood & the power of community.

***NEW EPISODE!!!*** @evalangston.bsky.social and Amanda Fields talk with Allison Buccola, author of The Ascent, about the anxieties of new motherhood, renegotiating relationships post-childbirth, and navigating career transitions. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: