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.”
- You may want to mark your calendar (and proceed with required registration) for “Why Short Fiction? Writing and Publishing Short Stories and Flash Fiction,” a free panel event that will be livestreamed from the New York Society Library on September 28.
- Here’s something that may help with writing and publishing in all genres: a new way to think about “submissions” and “rejections” as articulated in Rebekah Wolman’s guest post for Lit Mag News Roundup.
- Over on Catapult, it’s been “Application Week” for the “Don’t Write Alone” series. Among the new columns you’ll find “A Person of Color’s Guide to Navigating Writing Residencies,” in which Hannah Bae “writes about applying to and attending writing residencies as a person of color—along with tips from about ten other writers who identify as BIPOC.”
- Select content from the September/October issue of Poets & Writers is now available to all online (my favorite item: Michael Taeckens’s Q&A with Kate Tuttle, my erstwhile internship supervisor, for the “Reviewers & Critics” series).
- And, as always, you’ll find a fresh set of Jewish literary links posted over on the My Machberet blog. Do take a look!
Have a wonderful weekend!