Friday Finds for Writers
Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend. (more…)
Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend. (more…)
Every Friday My Machberet presents an array of Jewish-interest links, primarily of the literary variety.
Shabbat shalom!
How I Participated in a Poetry Reading from the Comfort of My Own Home
Late Sunday afternoon, I returned from a lovely day’s event in southern New Jersey and noticed the following Tweet:
PSH Live Open Reading in 15 minutes. Tune in and listen and/or call in and read! 2-3pm (pacific) http://t.co/4CGcqjiZzc
— Poetry Super Highway (@PoetrySuperHwy) April 19, 2015
I’d started following Poetry Super Highway on Twitter during this National Poetry Month. Their daily prompts are among those I’ve been seeing (thanks to C.A. LaRue). And, as mentioned last week, I’d submitted a poem for inclusion in Poetry Super Highway’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Issue.
I didn’t plan to call in to the reading. But I RTd the announcement. And then I was encouraged to call in.
So I did. (more…)
If you want to be technical about it, Alexis isn’t my niece–she’s the daughter of one of my three first cousins. But she calls me “Auntie Erika,” and I love her to pieces. Which is why I’m so proud to share the project she has undertaken prior to being called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah.
In her own words:
Please sign up for my ProjectSave18 group. This is my Mitzvah Project and starting April 1, I will be posting facts about organ and tissue donation daily. I will be doing this throughout the entire month of April, Donate Life month. My grandma Alexis was in need of a heart and kidney transplant and partly because of this she passed away. Please help me spread the word by this cause by joining my group and sharing with all of your Facebook friends.
(Interestingly—or maybe it’s not so interesting, since it IS Donate Life month—an item from MyJewishLearning.com crossed one of my social-media accounts a few days ago on the subject of “misgivings and misconceptions” re: organ donation.) (more…)
Monday brings the weekly batch of no-fee competitions/contests, paying submission calls, and jobs for those of us who write (especially those of us who write fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction). (more…)