Good Mom on Paper
Marilyn Stanley
, Kirsten Lyon
, Jude Castillo
, Linda Leitch
, Joshua Lewis
, Natasa Ilic
, Barry Kazimer
, Deb Philippon
, Remi Gunn
, Sarah Schwartz
, Shawna Walker
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Andrea Pole
, Cathy Jackson
, Kelly Pedro
, Chloe Moore
, LJ Law
, Stephanie Baird
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Eli Cherney
, Cathy White
, Noelle Walsh
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Andrea Gerson
, Lindsay Hobbs
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Jessica Trento
, Valerie Free
, Lori Cameron
, Benita Hartwell
, Megan Brodie
, Karyn Wisselink
, Thelma Ball
, Julie Kaniak
, Holly Elisabeth
, Jess Clausen
, Liisa Kelly
, Melissa Kohlman
, Pearl Saban
, Randi Ann Doll
, Karen Kendrick
, Sara Conway
, Katherine Koller
, Elizabeth Ivanovich
, Patricia Johnson
, Maria Mclean
, Heather Belliveau
, Carl Scott
, Paula Adam
, Christine Lion
, Kevin Smith
, Dora Dueck
, Marin Beck
, Cindy Bodini
, BJ Underwood
, Janice Cournoyer
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Lauren Seal
, Teira Stauth
, Lise Gaston
, Caroline Woodward
, Caley Clements
, Joann Horgan
, Shayla Bradley
editor@49thShelf.com
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.
