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’ve still got time to register for this online roundtable, “DOJ-PRH Antitrust Trial: A Roundtable Discussion,” scheduled for noon (Eastern) today.
- All about author advances—according to Anne Trubek.
- By this time next week, the September issue of The Practicing Writer 2.0 will have gone out to subscribers. For now, please be sure that you haven’t missed any of the opportunities listed in the August edition that remain open.
- A back-to-school message on “Writing What Matters” from Lee Martin.
- And it’s that time of the week—check out the latest Jewish-lit links on the My Machberet blog.
Have a great weekend.