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.”
- If, like me, you missed last week’s live broadcast of the 2020 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry event, you can still celebrate Terrance Hayes (for his 2018 poetry collection American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin) and Natasha Trethewey for lifetime achievement) via the Library of Congress’s Facebook page, YouTube site, and Library website.
- A generous invitation from Ruben Quesada, for poets with books coming out in 2021.
- Select content from the January/February issue of Poets & Writers magazine is now available online.
- Columbia Journalism Review “has compiled some of the year’s most illuminating, hard-hitting, and enduring coverage of the pandemic” (including essays by Jesmyn Ward and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie).
- And there’s a fresh set of Jewish-lit links over on the My Machberet blog.
Wishing you all a good weekend.
