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.”
- “The Robert B. Silvers Foundation warmly congratulates the winners of the first annual Silvers-Dudley Prizes for Literary Criticism, Arts Writing, and Journalism.”
- In which Debbie Ridpath Ohi shares “Common Mistakes Made by New Picture Book Writers.”
- From Jenny Bhatt: a thread for “2022 debut writers wondering about the many ‘most anticipated’ lists and anxious that their books aren’t on them: I won’t tell you such lists don’t matter. They do, esp. for SEO-based search results. But there are a few other ways to be ‘found” by your readers.'”
- For the season: a short, snowy poem by Robert Bly (1926-2021), courtesy of the Library of Congress.
- And of course, you’ll find a fresh set of Jewish lit links posted over on the My Machberet blog.
Have a good weekend, all.