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category: Literary Collections
published: Feb 2023
ISBN:9781771668378
publisher: Book*hug Press

Good Mom on Paper

Writers on Creativity and Motherhood

edited by Stacey May Fowles; Jen Sookfong Lee, narrator Larissa Thompson; Rogin Rashidan; Cherlandra Estrada; Tanis Paranteau & Christina Ho

tagged: women authors, motherhood, essays
Description

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 twenty essays that goes beyond the clichés to explore the fraught, beautiful, and complicated relationship between motherhood and 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 and intimate, critical and hopeful, this collection offers solace and joy to creative mothers and 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.

With contributions by 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, and 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.

About the Authors

Stacey May Fowles


Jen Sookfong Lee was born and raised on Vancouver's East Side, and she now lives with her son in North Burnaby. Her books include The Conjoined, nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award and a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize; The Better Mother, a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award, The End of East, The Shadow List and Finding Home. Jen was a columnist for CBC Radio One's The Next Chapter for many years. She teaches at The Writer's Studio Online with Simon Fraser University, acquires and edits for ECW Press and co-hosts the literary podcast Can't Lit.


Jen Sookfong Lee was born and raised on Vancouver's East Side, and she now lives with her son in North Burnaby. Her books include The Conjoined, nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award and a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize; The Better Mother, a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award, The End of East, The Shadow List and Finding Home. Jen was a columnist for CBC Radio One's The Next Chapter for many years. She teaches at The Writer's Studio Online with Simon Fraser University, acquires and edits for ECW Press and co-hosts the literary podcast Can't Lit.


ROGIN RASHIDAN is a voice-actress and associate casting director with a passion for exploring the intersections of visual storytelling and diversity. She began her career in film after receiving her Diploma in Performing Arts from the SchoolCreative Institute of Arts in 2017. Soon after, she graduated from Simon Fraser University with a Bachelors in Sociology & Criminology, driving her ambition to represent minorities in film and TV. Rogin has lent her voice to projects such as Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost, SAIT and the narrator for the audiobook of Where Things Touch by Bahar Orang.


CHERLANDRA ESTRADA is a professional narrator, voice artist and singer. She started her performing career in the theatre and loves to call on her character acting skills while narrating. With a number of voices at her disposal, Estrada’s credits also include commercial and gaming (MOCAP) voice-over. In addition, she just completed two seasons as a beloved character on a popular children’s animation series which is currently in production (so still top secret) but soon to be released!


CHERLANDRA ESTRADA is a professional narrator, voice artist and singer. She started her performing career in the theatre and loves to call on her character acting skills while narrating. With a number of voices at her disposal, Estrada’s credits also include commercial and gaming (MOCAP) voice-over. In addition, she just completed two seasons as a beloved character on a popular children’s animation series which is currently in production (so still top secret) but soon to be released!


CHERLANDRA ESTRADA is a professional narrator, voice artist and singer. She started her performing career in the theatre and loves to call on her character acting skills while narrating. With a number of voices at her disposal, Estrada’s credits also include commercial and gaming (MOCAP) voice-over. In addition, she just completed two seasons as a beloved character on a popular children’s animation series which is currently in production (so still top secret) but soon to be released!

Contributor Notes

Stacey May Fowles is an award-winning journalist, essayist, and author of four books. Her bylines include the Globe and Mail, The National Post, Reader’s Digest, Elle Canada, Toronto Life, The Walrus, BuzzFeed, Vice, Hazlitt, Quill and Quire, and others. Her most recent book, Baseball Life Advice, was published in spring 2017, was a national bestseller, and was selected by the Globe and Mail and Maisonneuve as a best book of the year. A former columnist at the Globe and Mail, she currently writes the Book Therapy column for Open Book. Fowles lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter, where she is working on a children's book and her fourth novel.

Jen Sookfong Lee was born and raised in Vancouver’s East Side, and she now lives with her son in North Burnaby. Her books include The Conjoined, nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award and a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize; The Better Mother, a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award; The End of East; The Shadow List; and Finding Home. Superfan, a memoir of her life with pop culture, will be published in January 2023. Jen acquires and edits for ECW Press and co-hosts the literary podcast Can’t Lit.

Editorial Reviews

“This collection denounces the commonly held belief that motherhood and writing are in contradiction to one another–its existence alone is proof enough.” — The Miramichi Reader


“Some of the essays broke my heart. Some of them made me smile. Some of them gave me hope that there is a way to forge a path in this space.” — Cloud Lake Literary


“Reader, I fist-pumped. In essay after essay – and I savoured every one; they are so beautifully written—mothers offer glimpses into their processes, their challenges, their grief. Their lives.” — The Globe and Mail


“Referencing strong female writers, both past and present — Virginia Woolf, Anne Carson, Alice Walker, Sylvia Plath, Claudia Dey — each writer shares their experience, strength and hope and invites all women, not just moms and writers, to ‘challenge traditional forms of styles of cultural enquiry.’” —Toronto Star

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