Are you ready for a productive summer? Here are a few things you can consider: Join a Pen Parentis Accountability Meetup. Free for Title Members* or $10 to drop in for Basic Members. Participate in MM’s Creativity Spa on the Summer Solstice for moms only, offered through Scribente Maternum Shut everything off and write. (get […]
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Feeling trapped??
We just edited and released our two wonderful interviews with Dr. Michelle Tichy, Educational Psychologist and expert at whole-family mental health and productivity–she has been working with homeschooled kids and productivity and social justice matters for many, many years and founded the HOEP Initiative to help parents who work find a holistic means to productivity […]
[ Read More...]Recent Buzz about Pen Parentis
Ever since M. M. De Voe wrote her memoir & guidebook to parenting and productivity (you can check out the book here) there has been a lot of buzz about Pen Parentis and our Cycle of Support. Consequently, here is a list of interviews and articles that will deepen your knowledge! Click the description to […]
[ Read More...]Writing Craft BOOK CLUB
From March 1-11, the Pen Parentis Book Club will be discussing the beloved classic craft book Bird by Bird by a famous parent who writes: Anne Lamott. We are following the Twitter format used so successfully by A Public Space for #TolstoyTogether. Using Twitter allows all writer-parents to join the discussion whenever convenient, no matter […]
[ Read More...]Read 2020’s winning story!
We are thrilled to present “The Cats” by the 2020-2021 Pen Parentis Writing Fellow, Dawn Ryan. Dawn’s story was first published as the cover story in print in the gorgeous Issue 7 of Dreamers Creative Writing Magazine available here. Dreamers Creative Writing has just made the story available online. Please read and share widely! Dawn’s […]
[ Read More...]NIGHT SESSIONS: a virtual writing cafe
New, FREE perk for Pen Parentis sustaining Title Members! Night Sessions: A Virtual Writing Cafe. Open for night owl writers or people who didn’t get enough done during the day! What: A pandemic-born, Zoom-y, three-hour chunk of quiet nighttime writing alongside your fellow authors. Sunday through Thursday nights. Why: You like the […]
[ Read More...]The Meaning of Fellowship
Please enjoy this beautiful open letter from 2019-2020’s Fellow Anjali Vaidya, to 2021’s Fellowship winners. (We awarded two Juror’s Prizes because it was extraordinary to us that any writer was able to create anything new in March-April of this year of pandemic parenting and political and racial turmoil) October 22, 2020San Diego, CA Dear Dawn, […]
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