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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood <\/a><\/em>is a collection of twenty essays that goes beyond the clich\u00e9s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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<\/em> makes them available to everyone who needs them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With contributions by Heather O\u2019Neill, Lee Maracle, Jael Richardson, Carrie Snyder, Alison Pick, Meaghan Strimas, Sofia Mostaghimi, Rachel Giese, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Erin Wunker, J\u00f3n\u00edna Kirton, Jennifer Whiteford, Teresa Wong, Nikkya Hargrove, S. Lesley Buxton, Amber Riaz, Adelle Purdham, Harriet Alida Lye, and Kellee Ngan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Book*hug Press<\/a>, May 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cReader, I fist-pumped. In essay after essay \u2013 and I savoured every one; they are so beautifully written \u2013 mothers offer glimpses into their processes, their challenges, their grief. Their lives.\u201d \u2014Marsha Lederman,\u00a0The Globe and Mail<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cReferencing strong female writers, both past and present \u2014 Virginia Woolf, Anne Carson, Alice Walker, Sylvia Plath, Claudia Dey \u2014 each writer shares their experience, strength and hope and invites all women, not just moms and writers, to \u2018challenge traditional forms of styles of cultural enquiry.’\u201d \u2014Elizabeth Mitchell,\u00a0Toronto Star<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The experience of motherhood is monumental, yet rarely discussed in connection with literary or creative life. How do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}