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.”
- In which The Masters Review editors chat about the “narrative tropes we feel are overused, ineffective, or generally hard sells for us.”
- When days begin to blur, it’s easy to miss Big News—so if you didn’t catch Monday’s announcement of the latest Pulitzer Prizes, here it is.
- Another announcement some may have missed: Joy Harjo has been re-appointed U.S. Poet Laureate. (Celebrate this news later today, when Harjo will take part in this virtual event.)
- And something else that may have passed you by: the latest updates to the Associated Press Stylebook.
- And there’s another super-healthy collection of Jewish-lit links up on the My Machberet blog; the post kicks off with important news about the Jerusalem Writers Festival, which begins this Sunday.
And the newly routine reminder that in case you’ve missed it, this site maintains an (updated) of emergency resources for writers: bit.ly/EmergencyResourcesWriters. Please have a good, safe, healthy weekend.