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 Publishers Weekly: “Have you held a fun virtual literary event lately? Want to see your lovely face in ‘Publishers Weekly’? We’re always looking for more Picture of the Day submissions!”
- Bookmarked: the latest issue of Brevity, featuring micro-essays on the experience of disability.
- Did you miss this week’s New York Times “Book Review Live” event on politics and fiction? So did I. But a recording is available; that, too, I’ve bookmarked.
- I did, however, manage to catch much of last night’s launch event for “Lift Every Voice: 250 Years of African American Poetic Traditions”—which is where I learned that there’s a brand-new website devoted to the project.
- And you’ll find the final set of Jewish lit links for the Jewish year 5780 up on the My Machberet blog. Shabbat shalom and shanah tovah to all who are celebrating!
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone.