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.”
- First things first: The January 2022 issue of The Practicing Writer 2.0 went out to subscribers this morning. Please check your email, subscribers! (Not-yet-subscribers can find the issue posted on Substack.)
- Over on the Writer’s Digest site, Christine Evans shares 10 basic tips for “marketing your children’s book” (and frankly, most of them are fundamentals that I recommend for authors of books for grown-ups, too).
- In case you missed them: Recordings of the New York Society Library’s fall literary events are now available for streaming.
- From Amanda Gorman: a new poem for the new year.
- And you’ll find the final set of Jewish-lit links for 2021 posted over on the My Machberet blog, too.
Wishing everyone a very happy and healthy new year, and a safe and pleasant weekend!
Have a good end to the old year and a good start to the new one.
-T
Likewise!
I share writing jobs on my blog at denisegrier.online and also writing markets and contests with no entry fees.
Thanks for sharing!