Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities for Writers

  • “ArtFunkl is pleased to offer artists a special residency opportunity for a 1-month stay [October 2011] in the beautiful western Mediterranean city of Valencia, Spain.” There is a residency charge (£730 for the month), but there is no application fee. “Accommodation is in a comfortable apartment on the edge of the city centre. The apartment has a double bedroom, and a single bedroom/study room which can be set up as a studio space. The residency is most suitable for writers, or artists who work with digital media, since there is no separate studio space included.” Deadline: September 23, 2011 (received by 6 p.m., U.K. time). (via Trans Artists)
  • The Helen Schaible International Shakespearean/Petrarchan Sonnet Contest welcomes submissions until September 1. No fee. Cash prizes ($50/$35/$15).
  • “We are pleased to invite you to submit nominees for The New York Public Library’s Twelfth Annual Young Lions Fiction Award, to be given in the spring of 2012. This award was created expressly to promote the work of young writers, to celebrate their accomplishments publicly, and to make a difference in the lives of these artists as they continue to build their careers. The award, which carries a $10,000 prize, is given annually to an American writer age 35 or younger for either a novel or collection of short stories.” No entry fee. Nominations must come from publishers. Deadline: September 2, 2011.
  • From Library Journal’s Barbara Hoffert email to publicists: “In the October 1, 2011, issue, Library Journal will list the first novels premiering during the fall-winter season. Books published between September 1, 2011, and January 31, 2012, are eligible. To be featured in the issue, please send me a list of your fiction debuts and include the following information: author, title, publication date, and state or country of residence. In addition, we have begun presenting first novels by genre (e.g., mystery, thriller, pop fiction, literary fiction); please specify genre. Please remember that this list covers only novels, not short fiction, and that a foreign author’s novel must be his or her first publication, not simply the first publication here. We accept both hardcover and original trade paperback. In the past, we have offered a retrospective of the previous season’s most successful debuts. I’m still working on reintroducing that feature! Stay tuned. We are on a tight deadline. Please email materials by August 25, 2011, to me at bhoffert(at)mediasourceinc(dot)com.”
  • St. Ambrose University (Ia.) seeks a Director of Publications and Editorial Projects, Ohio University is looking for an Editor for Ohio Today, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Office of the President is advertising for a Speechwriter.
  • Words of the Week: Ari Goldman

    From Ari Goldman, an extraordinary Jewish Week article revisiting The New York Times’ reportage on the events in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, 20 years ago:

    “You don’t know what’s happening here!” I yelled. “I am on the streets getting attacked. Someone next to me just got hit. I am writing memos and what comes out in the paper? ‘Hasidim and blacks clashed’? That’s not what is happening here. Jews are being attacked! You’ve got this story all wrong. All wrong.”

    You must read the entire article.

    Friday Find: AP Sept. 11 Style and Reference Guide

    This isn’t a fun find, but it’s an important one.

    Within a few weeks, we’ll commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Perhaps you are planning to write about the anniversary. Perhaps you’ve already written something and are waiting to post or publish it.

    As I learned from the Nieman Journalism Lab this week:

    To assist its members as they create that coverage, the Associated Press just released a style and reference guide whose content is dedicated to 9/11. It includes terms like “airline, airlines” (“Capitalize airlines, air lines and airways when used as part of a proper airline name. American Airlines, United Airlines”); “ground zero” (lower-case), “acceptable term for the World Trade Center site”; and names like “Osama bin Laden” (“use bin Laden in all references except at the start of a sentence…. Pronounced oh-SAH’-muh bin LAH’-din”).

    The guide is intriguing — not only as a useful tool for the many journalists who will be, in some way or another, writing about 9/11 over the next few weeks, but also as a hint at what a Stylebook can be when it’s thought of not just as a book, but as a resource more broadly. AP’s guide (official name: “Sept. 11 Style and Reference Guide”) is a kind of situational stylebook, an ad hoc amalgam of information that will be useful for a particular set of stories, within a particular span of time.

    It’s intriguing, all right. It’s remarkable. Go take a look.

    And then, go have a good, safe weekend. See you back here on Monday.

    Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

  • Advance praise for Anna Solomon’s debut novel, The Little Bride in “An Unorthodox Take on the Jewish Migration Tale.” (Can’t wait for the Q&A with Anna coming in September’s Practicing Writer newsletter.)
  • Have you heard about the new U.S. Poet Laureate? He’s Philip Levine.
  • From Colorado Review: “We are delighted to announce that Joan Leegant’s story “Beautiful Souls” was selected by final judge Ron Carlson as the winner of the 2011 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction! Ms. Leegant will receive $1,500 and her story will appear in the fall/winter 2011 issue of Colorado Review.” On her Facebook page, Joan shares that “Beautiful Souls” is set in Jerusalem. I can’t wait to read it!
  • Speaking of short stories, Tablet’s Sara Ivry previews a debut collection by Stuart Nadler.
  • Another Tablet item–and also about short fiction: Miriam Krule presents Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi’s posthumous debut in this week’s New Yorker.
  • Shabbat shalom!

    Essay Contest: Making Orthodox Synagogues More Meaningful

    From the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals:

    “How can we make modern Orthodox synagogues more meaningful and attractive? Send us your suggestions; the top three entries will receive $100 credit for our publications and will be published on our website. Please send your entries to mdangel@jewishideas.org. Entries should be no longer than 300 words. Entries must reach us no later than September 15.”

    (via @FrancesKraft1)