Unfortunately Jennifer has had to resign due to busy lifeness. We will miss her, she's been a good editor at HipMama & I was looking forward to working with her here as well. Jennifer, stop by & keep in touch!

What this means is that Stacey Greenberg, our very own staleyg, is stepping into co-editing Mamaphonic with me with the publication of her most *excellent* knitterview! < wild muppet applause > So send in your work so Stacey has something to do! We have had lots of poetry lately (must've been the spring influence?), so we're looking for more short story pieces fictional or otherwise, and more about balancing creativity & motherhood. But if you have a poem, we'd be happy to take a look at it too.

I'm pleased to announce that I'll be sharing editorial responsibilities now with Jennifer who is also an editor over at HipMama. From her bio on the about us page:

Jennifer Williams is the editor of Mamaphonic.com and HipMama.com and founder of Mama's Quilt, a resources and advocacy website for feminist mothers of color. She is living the single writer mama's life with her incredibly precocious, freedom fightin' almost-six-year-old daughter.

The community is the most important part of this site, and I'd like to surround you all with stuff that makes you feel welcome, that helps you out, and inspires you to do your thing whatever it is...

So, poke around here. What potential do you see? What's bogging this place down? (Yes, I know I have some empty things -- at some point I need to move the archives from the old html formatting to the CMS we're in now... they're place-savers as well as spaces for new content...).

I was just wondering how to submit a piece for possible publication on the Mamaphonic website.

It is with sadness that I say Shaolin has stepped down from producing Mamaphonic to pursue her writing and real world responsibilities and is rejoining the Mamaphonic "civilian" ranks.

I suppose this is also the point at which I get to announce that I am the new executive producer. Bee has a folder of stuff that she's sending me for the real voices section so we should have new content shortly!

checking out the sights this site has to offer. looks fun. like what i've read so far. dont't be surprised if i get to be a real regular.....i love this stuff!

I posted this once already but I did not see it come up on the site so I am posting it again. I just want to say hello to everyone. I created an account here months and months ago but never really used it. My bio explains a little about me. So, hello again and I should be around a bit more often now. Thanks all.

hello, i'm new and wanted to say hi to the wonderful people who seem to exist on this site. I started to enjoy writing not but two years ago when I retook an english class that i dropped four years before. i've come here to be inspired, to learn and practice writing. I find it hard to write if I don't have some sort of deadline or an authority figure giving me a writing distination. I would like to write more on a whim. On other forums I wouldn't feel able to write how i felt, i want to feel comfortable and able to say what the hell I want.

and kind of randomly through the forums. Wow. I remain ever impressed by all of you. I really am. You're all awesome. And I just though it needed to be said. Rock on! :)