Pen Parentis - a blog for writers who parent

Ever since you first picked up Dorothy Parker or Jack Kerouac and fell in love with the writer’s life, you’ve had an image in your head of...

Face it, there’s a reason you’re not getting an agent: it’s not because your writing sucks. If your writing su...

We interrupt this two-part blog entry to bring you a quick note from Frank Haberle, last year's Pen Parentis Writing Fellow! (It's t...

Authors in grad school often make pacts like the ones in dweeby marriage movies “whichever of us gets published first will pull the other up...

Transitions.  I can't do them. How the heck do successful writers who are parents manage to transition from working on their novel to ...

Cons of Freelance Writing with Kids •   Children interrupt: whether intentionally or not, if they are around, they will need you every 5-10 ...

So I'm often asked whether  Pen Parentis is for people who write about parenting.  Our mission is quite the opposite: we want to encour...