Erika Dreifus

Each week (typically Fridays), the Practicing Writing blog offers writing and publishing resources, news, and reflections to peruse over the weekend.

• Did you miss this year’s U.S. Book Show? Same here. Fortunately, Kathleen Schmidt has posted a summary for us.
• From Christine Sneed: “Whenever I teach a writing workshop, students always ask the following question: Where should I submit this story [poem, flash piece, essay]? Today’s post provides a detailed compendium of the advice I share with them.” (ED note: Related advice right here on this website, too!)
• Tips to help you find your query comps, fast, courtesy of Allison K. Williams.
• Jamie Kirchick’s New York Times essay on literary antisemitism is, I think, the piece that most Jewish writers are most grateful for this week. (Yes, as I mentioned on Twitter, it took little time for some of the usual suspects to begin attacking it. Which doesn’t make that fact any less predictable. Or wrong.) I’ll take this opportunity to mention here that over the past several months I have continued to update two relevant documents:  “After October 7: Readings, Recordings, and More” and “Writers, Beware.”
• And Kirchick’s essay is cross-posted in the latest batch of Jewish literary links on My Machberet, which I hope you’ll also check out.

Reminder! The June edition of The Practicing Writer 2.0 will be going out to subscribers today. You can always find archived issues (including the May installment, which features many fee-free-and-paying opportunities that are STILL open as of today) on Substack. Have a good weekend.