Monday Markets for Writers
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). (more…)
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). (more…)
Another Sunday in which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, which asks others to share the best sentence(s) we’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
“Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure//Les jours s’en vont je demeure”
–Source: Guillaume Apollinaire’s “Le Pont Mirabeau,” which I revisited this week when @JenniferSolheim reminded me of this recording of the poet reading it aloud. Merveilleux! (I have a hard time with the “out of context and without commentary bit, as you can see!)
Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to read 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, everyone.
“Only Israel could be pressured by the free world to release convicted killers before the ends of their sentences (something that the US, UK and others would not dream of doing), agree to do so at the start rather than the culmination of peace negotiations, and still wind up looking like the bad guy the next morning.”
Source: David Horovitz, “The Worst of Both Worlds,” The Times of Israel, August 14, 2013.