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 clarifying post about university presses (through the lens of the University of New Mexico Press).
- Last night, Ada Limón gave her inaugural reading as the 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. Fortunately, icymi, it was recorded.
- A recent post on Nieman Storyboard provides “a sampling of possibilities on how to use Storyboard in your journalism and writing classes.” Bonus: The post invites pitches from both students and teachers. (Nieman Storyboard’s rates “range from $150 to $400, depending on the nature of the piece.”)
- Among the latest Jewish-lit links on My Machberet: a new story by Nicole Krauss, multiple kidlit items, and more.
- And last, but not least: The October issue of The Practicing Writer 2.0 went out to subscribers earlier today. It’s packed with 60+ fee-free opportunities that will pay poets, fictionists, and writers of creative nonfiction for their winning/published work.
Please have a good, safe weekend.
