Friday Finds 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.”
- Weekend podcast listening: looking forward to a special Hear to Slay podcast episode celebrating the life and work of Toni Morrison.
- “If I Were Queen of Translation Reviews”—thoughts from Michele A. Berdy (via M.A. Orthofer)
- I’d been seeing the hashtag #TheSealeyChallenge on Twitter lately, but it wasn’t until I spent some time this week on the NewPages blog that I took the time to learn about it. The brainstorm of Nicole Sealey, it’s an August challenge to read a poetry book of chapbook each day. Here’s Katy Haas’s midmonth report on her progress through the challenge.
- The September/October issue of Poets & Writers magazine is out, with selected content available online to all.
- And there’s an especially rich set of Jewish-lit links up today (if I say so myself) over on the My Machberet blog.
Have a great weekend.