Friday Find for Writers
Most Fridays the Practicing Writing blog shares writing and publishing resources, news, and reflections to peruse over the weekend. But it’s been an excruciating week for so many of us. And frankly, I’ve paid next-to-no attention to garden-variety news from the writing and publishing spheres.
On Wednesday, however, I received an email from Facing History and Ourselves, a Boston-based global nonprofit organization that I’ve admired for many years. The email introduced a “mini-lesson” titled “Processing Attacks in Israel and the Outbreak of War in the Region.”
The resource isn’t perfect. (What resource is?) But one of its segments impressed me as something that, though intended for educators and students, could be clarifying for writers as well, in our work and in the rest of our lives. It’s a section titled “Avoiding Antisemitic and Islamophobic Tropes in Discussing Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”
- Meet Sarah Yerkes, debut poet (at the age of 101).
- And find out how bookseller Sarah McNally spends her Sundays.
- From Aviya Kushner: “August is Women in Translation Month. Did you know that women writers are drastically underrepresented on the world stage? Without translation, women writers can only have local careers. I’m tweeting some books written by women & translated by women, and hope you will too.”
- Lisa Mecham asked writers to give a shoutout to literary journals that published them early on. A lovely thread followed.
- And over on the My Machberet blog, there’s a fresh batch of Jewish-lit links.
Happy weekend, all.