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.”
- Over on the Brevity blog, Andrea A. Firth presents “Exploring the Possibilities of Artificial Intelligence in Creative Nonfiction Writing: A Q&A with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.”
- “What Is a Small Press?” Anne Trubek explains.
- ICYMI: The February 2023 issue of The Practicing Writer 2.0 went out to subscribers earlier this week. It’s packed with 80+ fee-free opportunities that will pay writers for winning/published work.
- In “Inside Book Twitter’s Final(?) Days,” an article by Sophie Vershbow for Esquire, “insiders tell…how book publishing will change if Twitter goes under.”
- And ‘s been another eventful week in the Jewish-lit world—especially for Jewish kidlit. Check out the latest links on My Machberet.
Have a wonderful weekend.