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.”
- “How to Find Freelance Work Using Social Media”—tips from Kaitlyn Arford on Tim Herrera’s Substack.
- “8 Tips for Reading Your Poetry in Front of an Audience”—advice from Robert Lee Brewer over on the Writer’s Digest site.
- In what’s evidently a first “Memoir Preview” for Library Journal, Barrie Olmstead explores “titles and trends” on the near horizon.
- Next week will bring the June issue of The Practicing Writer 2.0, but if you’re working on submissions this weekend, you’ll find numerous opportunities that remain open that are listed in the May edition.
- And, as always, you’ll find a fresh set of Jewish Literary Links posted over on the My Machberet blog.
Have a better weekend.