Meet the mums behind Entwined & Ember. 🌿

And links to preorder.

You can still support Entwined & Ember.

Entwined weaves together stories of creativity and motherhood from mothers on the west coast of America, to Canada, Mexico, and the UK. Contributors include painters, writers, potters, visual artists, musicians, poets, and multipassionates.

Every mother has their own creative ecosystem. By sharing our stories we hope to inspire you to entwine creativity and motherhood in your own way.

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Read Entwined’s Origin story.

Five years and fifty five mother’s later this book baby is finally being birthed.

The Five Year Origin Story of Entwined 🌿

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If you want to know more about this project check out these posts from our virtual blog tour!

Blog Hop

• Finding Our Enablers by Hayley J. Dunlop

• What Happens When We Stop Rushing by

  Claire Venus
  &
  Lisa Mabberley

• Translating Anxiety into Art (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) by

  Mindy Wara

• Late Summer Embers by Joanna Wolfarth

• This Book is For Busy Mums by Dr. Sheree Mack

• Entwined Bibliography (a collection of the books and sources that inspired me to write a book about motherhood & creativity) by me

Podcasts

• On Creativity and Chronic Illness with Jocelyn Mathewes by Alycia Buenger & Kati Overmier on UNRAVEL your journey: podcast

• Finding Yourself Again by Hayley Dunlop & Kayla Huszar on Chill Like a Mother

• Jocelyn Mathewes & Vanessa Wright chat about creativity on IG Live

• Expand Your Creative Capacity Within Motherhood with Claire Venus by Alycia Buenger & Kati Overmier on UNRAVEL your journey: podcast

• Discover Your Creative Ecosystem with me (Sarah Shotts) by Alycia Buenger & Kati Overmier on UNRAVEL your journey: podcast

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Wish you were involved?

I’ve also extended the deadline for submitting prompts to the Ember art journal!

You now have until October 31.

Open Call for Ember 🔥

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Shoutout to all of the contributors! 🥰

I’m so honored to have such a brilliant constellation of mothers involved in this project. There are over 55 mothers involved from the writers and cover artists to our editor.

Creative Team: Twiggy Boyer, Annie King, Emily Jalinksy & Jocelyn Mathewes.

Anthology Writers: Alexa Villanueva, Anong Migwans Beam, Autumn Fox, Bethany Howard, Christina Marshall, Claire Venus, Emily Perron, Faith Shaw, Hayley J. Dunlop, Joanna Wolfarth, Jocelyn Mathewes, Lauren Oakey, Lindsey Smith, Lisa Mabberly, Mariah Friend, Marisa Pahl, Marina Gross-Hoy, Mary Beth Keenan, Megan Driving Hawk, Natalie Ward, Odeta Xheka, Shelley Wallace, Sheree Mack, Susan Chiang, Vanessa Novissimo Wright, and Zoe Gardiner.

Ember Contributors: A. Westgate, Alexia Cameron Casiano, Amy Walsh, Catherine Fortey, Chanel Riggle, Ciara Froning, Claire MacKinnon, Daisy Thomasstone, Devon Bennet, Emma Carpendale, Erica Settino, Genevieve Beech, Grace Esteignhagen, Jordan Haley, Kati Overmier, Katie Gresham, Katherine Mills-Yatsko, Kayla Huszar, Lindsay Joseph, Lucy Beckley, Marissa Huber, Mindy Wara, Claudia Plata, Rebecca Potts, Tamsin Chennell, Melanie Webster & more. (Still accepting prompt submissions!)

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I’ll be turning into goo next week to recover my energy. (Like a caterpillar in a cocoon.) Even gentle book launches are a lot.

Thanks for your patience with the extra emails. We’ll go back to our normal creative compost heaps next month. I just want this book to reach as many mums as possible.

Cheers,