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.”
- On the subject of blurbs: recent takes from The Biblioracle Recommends and Publishing Confidential.
- About Ed Ochester (1939-2023) and the University of Pittsburgh’s Poetry Series (via Shelf Awareness).
- Typically, I read each installment of Adam O’Fallon Price’s The William Trevor Reader (close readings of each story in Trevor’s Collected Stories) almost as soon as it lands. But this week, I’m waiting to read it, slowly, over the weekend. Why? Because it’s the final one.
- Some serious truth (and transparency) about poetry-book sales, from Sean Singer.
- And icymi: The September edition of The Practicing Writer 2.0 went out to subscribers yesterday. It’s packed with fee-free and paying opportunities (calls for submissions and contests/competitions) that you’ll want to check out, as well as some other worthy info.
Wishing everyone a good weekend—and for those in the U.S., a good holiday weekend!
