Friday Finds for Writers
Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend.
Have a great weekend, everyone.
Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend.
Have a great weekend, everyone.
Every Friday morning My Machberet presents an assortment of Jewish-interest links, primarily of the literary variety.
Shabbat shalom.
Statements excerpted here.
And institutions presented in alpha order here.
See also: Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin on thanking these universities. I’ve been trying to so via Twitter. How about you?
Published Monday:
At this time of year, I’m confronted with the many books published in 2013 that I haven’t yet managed to read. It seems that every day another “best-of” list materializes to remind me of the recurrent truth: There’s just never enough time to get to all of the books that I’d like to read, not even if I limited myself to books of Jewish interest, or to novels and short-story collections. And yet, as we approach the new year, publishers’ 2014 catalogs promise a new array of tempting titles. Here are just five of the notable “Jewish books” that I’m already anticipating.
Read the rest of this article on The Forward‘s “Arty Semite” blog. And happy new year!
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).