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"It takes courage to write about motherhood in a culture that sets women with children on the sidelines, and it takes even greater courage to give voice to the powerful emotions and fears that swirl deep beneath the surface of our daily lives..." -Kathleen Hirsch and Katrina Kenison, Mothers

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

2009 memoir festival!

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I want to tell you about the 2009 Memoir Writing Festival at the Loft Literary Center, May 15 – 17. I attended the first festival two years...

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Monday, April 27, 2009

back

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D has been in town for only one day out of the last ten, which I hope explains my silence the last two weeks. When D’s gone I lose my mornin...

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

solid

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Last night, D was reading Little House in the Big Woods to Stella, and I was sitting at the dining room table, planning my new Loft class, ...

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

i'm having trouble focusing today

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Could this be because my morning work time was swallowed by three children—two mine, one not? Could it be because one of the said children h...

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Friday, April 3, 2009

the personal, the political

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There is something that’s been bubbling under the surface these last few weeks, something born from a combination of anger and fear and hope...

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Monday, March 30, 2009

the top seven

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Thank you to everyone who submitted a toddler haiku for the annual Mother Words Haiku Contest. You can read all the entries here and here ....

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

oh where oh where

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are all the haiku? People, don't make me bust out my own mad haiku skills. Post your toddler haiku here for a chance to win a $10 amazo...

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kate hopper: I'm a mama and writer and teacher. I've been helping mothers tell the stories they need to tell since 2006. I'm the author of Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers and Ready for Air: A Journey Through Premature Motherhood, winner of a 2014 MIPA Midwest Book Award, and co-author of Silent Running, a memoir of one family’s journey with autism and running. My writing has appeared in a number of journals, including Brevity, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times online and Poets & Writers. I have an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and I teach online, in Ashland University’s Low-residency MFA program, and at the Loft Literary Center. For more information about my work visit www.katehopper.com. Join the discussion!

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