Erika Dreifus

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

• “New Editor Aims to Energize Schocken Books”—by Cathy Lynn Grossman for Publishers Weekly. (This is cross-posted on My Machberet, where you’ll also find the latest Jewish lit links.)
• “Most of My Friends are Leaving Twitter/X, But I’m Sticking Around.” By digital-media expert Sree Sreenivasan.
• Remember the news that broke some months back about Alice Munro (1931-2014)? From Giles Harvey: “In the months since the revelations, I revisited Munro’s stories, spoke with members of her family and tracked down a number of her unpublished letters. Munro’s appalling failures as a mother seem to have been an imaginative incitement, instrumental to her artistic project.” (Gift link to the story in The New York Times Magazine.)
• Gift link to a beautiful #longread about Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), by Caitlin Flanagan, for The Atlantic.
• Free offering from Robert Lee Brewer/Writer’s Digest: “Get your writing goals started right in 2025 with the second ever Get Started Right Writing Challenge. Writer’s Digest provides free daily tasks for the first 10 days of the January to help writers spring into a successful year of writing.”

Quick reminder—if you’re planning to spend time over the holidays seeking support/homes for your writing, you’ll find some still-open (and fee-free and paying/funded) options in our December newsletter and weekly blog supplements. And of course, I’m already working to ready the January newsletter, which will go out to subscribers at December’s end.

Have a good weekend.