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		<title>Paired Writing Contests on &#8220;The Catskills and the Holocaust&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure that I&#8217;ve ever seen anything quite like this before: paired writing contests&#8211;one in fiction and one in nonfiction&#8211;as part of a book project, Summer Haven: How the Catskills Experienced the Holocaust, edited by Holli Levitsky, Professor of English and Director of Jewish Studies at Loyola Marymount University, and Phil Brown, Professor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the Jewish Book Council for taking note of the Sophie Brody Medal news in its latest JLit Links post! (By the way, for a response to the kidlit link included in that post, see The PJ Library.) And speaking of kids&#8217; books: Marjorie Ingall writes about Holocaust books for children. And still more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Find: Five Ways to Write a Poem (and Maybe a Few More)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do I write thee? Let me count the ways&#8230;. Or maybe not. Still, there are plenty of ways to write a poem, and this week, Robert Lee Brewer shared five techniques that have helped when he&#8217;s &#8220;been stuck in a rut.&#8221; Check the comments thread, too. Since I&#8217;m a fan of prompts, I&#8217;ll also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday&#8217;s Work-in-Progress: Seeking Your Advice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you follow this blog, it&#8217;s no secret that I&#8217;m still pretty interested in freelancing, even if I do have a full-time job. The time I have for it is just more limited than it once was. But I want to continue developing my freelancing skills and practice. So here&#8217;s my question: Is an ASJA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words of the Week: Paul Auster</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whatever the Prime Minister might think about the state of Israel, the fact is that free speech exists there and no writers or journalists are in jail. According to the latest numbers gathered by International PEN, there are nearly one hundred writers imprisoned in Turkey, not to speak of independent publishers such as Ragip Zarakolu, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wednesday Web Browser for Writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve read our latest newsletter, you know that the application deadline for the 2012 Sozopol Fiction Seminars is approaching. You can learn a lot more about this fascinating program&#8211;which brings together fictionists writing in Bulgarian with an equal number of colleagues writing in English&#8211;from Fiction Writers Review, where several participants have shared their experiences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotation of the Week: Anton Chekhov</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Don&#8217;t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.&#8221; -Anton Chekhov Source: Goodreads, which also told me that Sunday (January 29) was Chekhov&#8217;s birthday. He was born in 1860.]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Markets/Jobs/Opportunities for Writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Tis the season to be preparing those financial aid applications for the Bread Loaf Writers&#8217; Conference: &#8220;Thanks to the generous support of Middlebury College and to an endowment fund established by past Bread Loafers and other donors, we are able to offer financial aid in three categories: fellowships, tuition scholarships, and work-study scholarships. Financial aid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Find: Where to Publish Flash Nonfiction &amp; Micro-Essays</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As promised two weeks ago, I&#8217;ve compiled what I am calling here a guide to journals and magazines that publish flash nonfiction/micro-essays. Before I present the list, I need to issue a few clarifications and caveats. First, this list by no means includes *every* journal or magazine that might publish your piece of flash nonfiction. For the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two fabulous Twitter book club titles coming up from the Jewish Book Council: in February, Anna Solomon&#8217;s The Little Bride; in March, Nathan Englander&#8217;s What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. Tablet summarizes all the latest Jewish book award news (and then some). Author Rachel Kadish writes about Hala Salah Eldin Hussein, [...]]]></description>
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