I’m thrilled to announce the release of TORN: True Stories of Modern Motherhood, in which I have an essay, “Observations from the Planet SAHM.” (SAHM stands for “stay-at-home-mom.”) The anthology is filled with real-life stories of women who have juggled careers and motherhood. I’ll be promoting the book at a few readings/signings during April and May.
Here’s what’s on tap so far:
April 28 – Mendham Books, Mendham, NJ, 7 pm
May 3 – The Community Bookstore, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY
May 13- River Road Books/Nauvoo Grill Club, Fair Haven, NJ
Hope you can make it!
I am currently a student in the low-residency MFA program in literary nonfiction at Bennington College. I attend two 10-day residencies in Vermont each year and, in between, I read books, write critical papers and my own creative work, and send it all via snail mail to a mentor at the end of every month. If all goes according to schedule, I’ll receive my master’s degree in January 2012 and will have produced at least part of a publishable manuscript in the interim.
Please have a look around the site and check out my blog here for all the latest writing news.
I’m also posting regularly at Positively!Pottstown, a blog I founded in the spring of 2010 to shine the light on all the good things happening in my childhood hometown, a former industrial and manufacturing center, as it strives to re-invent itself. I hope you’ll check that out, too!
The header photo above shows one side of the former Van Buskirk’s Hardware Store on High Street. My dad worked there for many years, and I have fond memories of looking at old coins in the cases up front, imagining days gone by, where those coins had been, what they might have purchased, before I put my own nickel into the nearby gumball machine. Running the gauntlet of mounted deer heads in the back of the store was another matter altogether.
Peace and love,
Sue Repko
