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.”
- A brilliant thread from Rebecca Makkai.
- As it happens, you’ll find some practical suggestions to help you follow Makkai’s advice in Allison Pottern Hoch’s latest newsletter.
- In which Sara Lippmann recalls how an writing award changed her life—and how it didn’t.
- A new issue of Poets & Writers is out, with selected content available to all online.
- And of course, you’ll find a fresh set of Jewish literary links posted over on the My Machberet blog.
Have a good weekend, everyone.