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Good Mom On Paper Writers On Creativity And Motherhood Stacey May Fowles Editor by Stacey May Fowles (editor), Jen Sookfong Lee (editor) 9781771667487, 9781771667470, 1771667486, 1771667478 instant download after payment.
The experience of motherhood is monumental, yet rarely discussed in connection with literary or creative life. How do we navigate the twin devotions of love and art? How does motherhood disrupt the creative process? How does it enhance it?
Good Mom on Paper is a collection of 20 essays that goes beyond the clichés to explore the fraught, beautiful, & complicated relationship between motherhood & creativity. These texts disclose the often-invisible challenges of a literary life with little ones: the manuscript written with a baby sleeping in a carrier, missing a book launch for a bedtime, crafting a promotional tour around child care. But they also celebrate the systems that nurture writers who are mothers; the successes; the intricate, interconnected joys of these roles.
Honest & intimate, critical & hopeful, this collection offers solace & joy to creative mothers & asks how we can better support their work. Mothers have long been telling each other these vital stories in private. Good Mom on Paper makes them available to everyone who needs them.
Contributors: Heather O'Neill, Lee Maracle, Jael Richardson, Carrie Snyder, Alison Pick, Meaghan Strimas, Sofia Mostaghimi, Rachel Giese, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Erin Wunker, Jónína Kirton, Jennifer Whiteford, Teresa Wong, Nikkya Hargrove, S. Lesley Buxton, Amber Riaz, Adelle Purdham, Harriet Alida Lye, & Kellee Ngan.
A portion of each sale will be donated to the Mothers Matter Centre: a not-for-profit organization dedicated to empowering isolated, at-risk mothers.
Stacey May Fowles is is an award-winning novelist, journalist, & essayist. She has written for the Globe & Mail, The Walrus, Torontoist, the National Post, Deadspin, Hazlitt, & Vice Sports. Her most recent book is Baseball Life Advice, from 2017.
Jen Sookfong Lee writes, edits, & sometimes sings badly on a podcast. She co-hosts the literary podcast, Can’t Lit, with Dina Del Bucchia.
