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Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

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Photo Credit: Reut Miryam Cohen
Every Friday morning My Machberet presents an assortment of Jewish-interest links, primarily of the literary variety.

  • Earlier this week, I was lucky enough to attend a Philip Roth tribute here in New York City. And we’re all lucky that Adam Chandler was also present, covering the event for Tablet.
  • The October Jewish Book Carnival went live this week. Go enjoy it.
  • Managing Editor sought: “Dynamic individual needed to lead biweekly newspaper. The Jewish Voice, a 9,500 circulation, non-profit newspaper, published by the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island, seeks a highly organized strategic thinker.”
  • “The Harold Grinspoon Foundation (HGF) is looking for a Program Officer to support the growth of PJ Library, the foundation’s Jewish family engagement program, in the New York metropolitan region.”
  • And in case you missed it: my full review of Orly Castel-Bloom’s Textile (trans. Dalya Bilu), over on the Practicing Writing blog.

    • Shabbat shalom.

    Wednesday’s WIP: A Recent Review

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    textile-orly-castel-bloom-paperback-cover-artBack in January, I discovered that that The Feminist Press would be publishing Textile, an English translation of a novel by one of my favorite Israeli authors, Orly Castel-Bloom. The book was slated for release in the spring; I was thrilled to receive an assignment to review it and dug in eagerly to my review copy.

    Publication of the book was delayed, so the deadline for my review was, too. Then it wasn’t until August that my editor asked for some revisions. I complied. When a Google alert let me know that the review was published just last week, I discovered that further cuts and other revisions had been made.

    I’m always happy to have a byline in this particular publication (not to mention the paycheck). But I can’t deny that I’m disappointed that this piece ended up so very much shorter than (and otherwise different from) the original review that I worked so hard to craft. So I’m using today’s blog post to share that original version with you. I hope that you enjoy it. (more…)

    Monday Markets for Writers

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    Monday brings the weekly batch of no-fee competitions/contests, paying submission calls, and jobs for those of us who write (especially those of us who write fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction).

  • New Horizon Press is looking for nonfiction manuscripts: “We seek these categories: True crime, from the perspective of law enforcement, attorneys or loved ones seeking justice. Also self-help and psychological issues, such as phobias, teen suicide, blended families, relationship problems, etc. Timely topics for general audiences, preferably by credentialed professionals. Small advance and regular royalties. NO MEMOIRS OR NOVELS, please. See our website, newhorizonpressbooks.com/submit.php3, for examples and submission process guidelines.”
  • The Vermont Writer’s Prize confers $1,500 and publication in Vermont magazine for “a
 poem,
 short
 story,
 play
 or 
essay
 on 
the 
theme 
of
 Vermont
.” Competition is open to all
    Vermont 
residents, 
including
 seasonal 
residents
 and
 students
 enrolled
 in 
VT
 colleges.” No entry fee. Deadline: November 1, 2013.
  • “Longwood University’s [Va.] Department of English and Modern Languages invites applications for a tenure-track Professor specializing in The Business of Creative Writing to begin in August 2014. The position requires a primary area of specialization in editing and publishing and a secondary area of specialization in creative writing (genre open). A terminal degree in Creative Writing (M.F.A. or Ph. D) is required, as is experience in editing and publishing.”
  • “The Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado Denver invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor in Creative Writing, specialization in Fiction.”
  • “The University of Maine at Machias seeks an Assistant Professor of English with a specialty in creative writing and a commitment to teaching excellence in support of our signature English, Creative Writing, and Book Arts ( http://machias.edu/english.html) and Interdisciplinary Fine Arts ( http://machias.edu/finearts.html) programs.”
  • “The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor of Poetry or Creative Nonfiction for our online MFA in Creative Writing beginning Fall 2014.”
  • A Blade of Grass, a New York-based “funding non-profit dedicated to nurturing socially engaged art,” seeks an Events and Communications Coordinator.

    • Friday Finds for Writers

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    Treasure ChestWriting-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend.

  • If you were under a rock or otherwise off the grid yesterday, you may be one of the last people to not yet know that Alice Munro has won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. Some of the Munro-related material that I’m looking forward to sifting through this weekend includes a treasure trove of appreciations that appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review several years ago, a blog post and review essay by D.G. Myers, and a Missouri Review essay by Cheryl Strayed.
  • A timely post (given the above) on “what makes a good short story,” by Best American Short Stories series editor Heidi Pitlor. (h/t @JonnyPapers, though soon after he shared it, I saw it everywhere.)
  • For your weekend listening: a podcast of a conversation between André Aciman and Aleksandar Hemon on displacement, exile, and memory.
  • Couldn’t wait to dig in when I saw that Rebecca Klempner had written a post on writing in the second person. (Then I was surprised and honored to see myself mentioned therein.)
  • I’ll admit it: I couldn’t accomplish as much as I do interview/Q & A-wise if I didn’t rely on email mode. Some writers think email interviews are just THE WORST. But there are ways to improve them, as Carol Tice points out.

    • Have a great weekend, everyone.