Pen Parentis is here for you! These past two years, Pen Parentis has worked to become accessible for ANY writer who has kids – ANYWHERE in the English-speaking world. (Looking at you, New Zealand!) — our programs are entirely online, and we welcome participation from anyone, anywhere! Here is a recent and absolutely GORGEOUS article […]
[ Read More...]Single-Parent Writers
It’s not fucking fair. That’s what Cara Hoffmann announced after listening to the rest of the Pen Parentis panel talking about how they so appreciated their spouse for taking the kids for four hours here and two hours there so the writer could finish a chapter of the latest book. She raised a son on […]
[ Read More...]Flee for the Weekend
At the AWP conference in Chicago, I was lucky to attend the panel on pregnancy called Writing Motherhood. I was surprised by a few things 1) how many of the people in the audience were not pregnant, and 2) how many of them were men. It was standing room only in a rather large room […]
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