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.”
- From New England Review: “In an effort to help sustain momentum for and contribute to urgent anti-racist action in the US and beyond, we present these works from the NER archive. Black Lives Matter, and Black Literature Matters.”
- If you’ve been wondering about the #PublishingPaidMe hashtag that you may have seen going around this week, here’s a New York Times article about it.
- Terrific piece by Leah Umansky (also in The New York Times) on writing found poetry.
- From Chicago Tribune: “The president and board chair of the Chicago-based Poetry Foundation have resigned after more than 1,800 people signed an open letter denouncing the Foundation for failing to do more to support Black and other marginalized artists.” (You may also want to check out this open letter from Philip B. Williams.)
- And over on the My Machberet blog, you’ll find a fresh batch of Jewish-lit links.
May it be a good weekend for all.
