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Wednesday’s Work-in-Progress: Musings on “Activist Lit”

by Erika Dreifus on April 2, 2014

Photo by Dorothea Lange. Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 - 1962 — Photo by Dorothea Lange. Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 – 1962

On my mind this week: “Activist Lit.” For the following reasons. (more…)

Monday Markets for Writers

by Erika Dreifus on March 31, 2014

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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).

The April issue of The Practicing Writer is going out to subscribers today! (Check your email, folks!) You can also find the current issue online. As always, you’ll find the issue filled with info on no-fee competitions & paying litmag calls.

“We are now inviting submissions to the 2014 THRESHOLDS International Short Story Forum Feature Writing Competition.” Submissions may fall within categories of Author Profile (“exploring the life, writings and influence of a single short story writer”) or We Recommend (“personal recommendations of a collection, anthology, group of short stories or a single short story”). Prizes: 1st Prize of £500 and two Runner-up Prizes of £100. “The winning and runner-up essays and shortlist will be published on the THRESHOLDS Forum during 2014.” No entry fee. No simultaneous submissions. (Hurry if you’re interested in this one–the contest closes April 2, 2014, midnight GMT.) (via Mistakes Writers Make)

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Sunday Sentence

by Erika Dreifus on March 30, 2014

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In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, which asks us to share the best sentence(s) we’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

“She had a vexed relationship with her caps-lock key.”

Source: Nicholas Thompson, “My Friend, Stalin’s Daughter”

Friday Finds for Writers

by Erika Dreifus on March 28, 2014

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Treasure Chest Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend. (more…)

Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

by Erika Dreifus on March 28, 2014

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Sabbath Candles — Photo Credit: Reut Miryam Cohen

Every Friday morning My Machberet presents an assortment of Jewish-interest links, primarily of the literary variety.

On the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s blog: an excerpt from Simon Schama’s The Story of the Jews.

A column by Rabbi Fishel Schachter inspires Rebecca Klempner to reflect on writing for children.

I’m always happy to find a new story by Etgar Keret. (Thanks, Tablet!)

The Forward‘s Arty Semite blog features “Eve and Lilith Back at the Garden,” a poem by Lynn Levin.

Next week brings the next Jewish Book Council/Jewcy Twitter Book Club. On Wednesday, April 2 at 1:30 pm ET, Jean Hanff Korelitz will be talking/tweeting about her newest book, You Should Have Known!

Shabbat shalom.