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.”
- “For the last thirty of its forty years, Conjunctions has been published by Bard College. Sadly, I’ve been informed that the cost of continuing to publish the journal has become unsustainable for the college, which has made the decision to cease publication at the end of this calendar year.” So writes Bradford Morrow, founder/editor of Conjunctions. UPDATE ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON: Major development in this story.
- On the Writer’s Digest site, Matt Miksa offers “tips for writers who need a better book title.”
- Yet another literary agent/agency scam alert. (At least we can be alerted!)
- I contributed to this campaign to make books available to Ukrainian refugee children sheltering in Poland after learning about it from Shelf Awareness. Perhaps, if you can, you may wish to do the same.
- And, right on schedule, there’s a new collection of Jewish-lit links posted over on the My Machberet blog.
Wishing for a good weekend for all.
Let us hope that the Ukrainian children won’t be refugees much longer. But whenever Russia is through with Ukraine, it will be quite a while until Ukraien will be Ukraine again.