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Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to peruse over the weekend. Continue reading ›
Blogs
I maintain two blogs: Practicing Writing and My Machberet. Posts for both blogs show up on this page, but you can visit each blog by clicking on the appropriate link. It's also possible to subscribe to each feed.
Practicing Writing: Here you'll find updates on writing and publishing opportunities (especially handy between issues of our popular monthly newsletter). You'll discover ONLY opportunities that charge no fees, and ONLY publications/contests that will pay for your writing. The blog also shares writing-related news, resources, and quotations; book reviews; and occasional updates regarding this practicing writer's own work.
My Machberet: "Machberet" is the Hebrew word for notebook. Since it's also (appropriately) one of the very first words I learned in my first Hebrew school in Brooklyn (and, I confess, one of the few conversational Hebrew words I still remember), I've chosen it to title this blog, where I offer write-ups on Jewish news (especially of the literary sort) and occasional commentary.
Friday Finds for Writers
Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to peruse over the weekend. Continue reading ›
Pre-Shabbat Jewish Literary Links
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Every Friday My Machberet presents an array of Jewish-interest links, primarily of the literary variety. Continue reading ›
Midweek Notes: Will Return Next Week
Today is the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. I am pre-scheduling this post just to let anyone who might be expecting the Wednesday update know that the feature will return next week.
Thanks for your patience, and to all who may be observing the holiday, g’mar chatima tova and a meaningful fast.
Words of the Week
I’ve been trying (with mixed success) to keep up with texts and videos of Holy Day sermons. Here’s one that I discovered (via Rabbi Jeff Salkin), that left an especially strong impression. Continue reading ›
Monday Markets and Jobs for Writers
The weekly batch of no-fee, paying competitions, contests, and calls for submissions—plus jobs for those of us who write (especially those of us who write fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction). These posts are intended to complement/supplement monthly issues of The Practicing Writer newsletter (current issue here).
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Sunday Sentence
Leo Tolstoy in 1897.
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Source: Leo Tolstoy, in a presumably translated epigraph at the start of Craig Brown’s Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret.
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