Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists

“The Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists is accepting applications for its next cohort of artists.

The fellowship program will support nine individual artists in New York City between the ages of 22 and 38 who are working in the visual arts, music, and performing arts and who want to develop a new project with a Jewish focus, theme, or element.

The program seeks projects that reflect or embody a thoughtful engagement with Jewish experience, history, values, issues, or concerns and that will resonate with a broad range of audiences but with particular emphasis on the artist’s peers. During the two-year fellowship, artists will create and present their diverse projects to young audiences in the New York area through programs such as live performances, concerts, and gallery events.

To be eligible, artists need to have lived in New York City for one year prior to the fellowship start date (October 2010) and should already have networks and connections in New York City, which Six Points can help them use and leverage.

Each of the fellowships will provide a stipend of up to $20,000 over two years, a project grant of up to $20,000 over two years, and retreats, monthly workshops, coaching, and mentorship.”

Letter of intent is due March 1. Visit

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Friday Finds: Top Writing Blogs

Whether you’ll be snowed in this weekend or not, you may appreciate the opportunity to peruse some compilations of top writing blogs. I’ve recently learned that Practicing Writing appears on two such lists, Top 100 Creative Writing Blogs and Top 100 Blogs to Improve Your Writing in 2010. We’re in some pretty impressive company, so I’m grateful and glad. Have a great weekend, and see you back here on Monday!

Titles as Prompts

As I mentioned yesterday, I’m once again enrolled in an online poetry class, and last week’s lesson included material and assignments on titles. One assignment asked us to “Choose a title that already exists and then write a poem to match it.” We were given a bunch of existing titles to consider. We were also encouraged to look up the original poet’s version once we’d completed our own and see how the works compared.

So I thought I’d provide you with something of a twist. Here are the titles of some of my published poetry and prose. See if any of them spark any writing for you (I’d love to know if they do). I’m giving you titles only for works that can be located online, so please go ahead and look up the words that follow these titles if you’re so inclined. Enjoy!

“For Services Rendered”

“Floating”

“Rio, 1946”

“Stars and Stripes—Forever”

“Vigilance”

“In Praise of Polyglossia”

“Solar Damage”

“Mannheim”

“Diaspora”

“American Love Sonnet”