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.”
- Changes are happening at literary journal Crazyhorse. (Hat tip: Lit Mag News Roundup.)
- Select articles from the May-June issue of Poets & Writers magazine are now available online.
- We’re halfway through the month, which means that you still have plenty of time to make use of the fee-free and paying opportunities and calls included in our latest newsletter—in fact, most of these listings remain open for your work!
- Kudos to Writer Beware on their site redesign, which I noticed instantly on my latest visit. (Also worth lingering over while you’re there: a recent post on book fair “representation.”)
- And of course, you’ll find a new set of Jewish-lit links—including links to new issues of JewishFiction.Net and Jewish Review of Books—posted over on the My Machberet blog.
Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend, and meaningful holidays to those who will be observing them.