Good Mom on Paper

Writers on Creativity and Motherhood

Stacey May Fowles, Jen Sookfong Lee

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Book*hug
09 August 2022

Anthologies (non-poetry)

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 clichs 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, Jnna 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.

Edited by: Stacey May Fowles, Jen Sookfong Lee
Imprint: Book*hug
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 376g
ISBN: 9781771667470
ISBN 10: 1771667478
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 09 August 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

STACEY MAY FOWLES is an award-winning journalist, essayist, and author. Her bylines include the The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Reader's Digest, Toronto Life, The Walrus, BuzzFeed, Vice, Hazlitt, Quill and Quire, and others. Her books include Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood, and Baseball Life Advice, which 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 The Globe and Mail, she currently writes the Book Therapy column for Open Book Ontario. Fowles lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter. JEN SOOKFONG LEEwas born and raised in Vancouver's East Side, and she now lives with her son in North Burnaby. Her books includeThe 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; andFinding Home.Superfan, a memoir of her life with pop culture, was published in 2023. Jen acquires and edits for ECW Press and co-hosts the literary podcast Can't Lit.

Reviews for Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood

"""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 ""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 ""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"