#SundaySentence
Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
(more…)Practicing Writing
Welcome to 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 and resources and updates regarding this practicing writer’s own work.
Finds for Writers
Writing- and publishing-related resources to peruse over the weekend.
- Eavesdrop (captions are available on YouTube) as Pamela Paul discusses editing The New York Times Book Review, writing a weekly opinion column, and much more with Meghan Daum.
- So many tbr titles in Kate Dwyer’s examination of the state of the campus novel (for Esquire).
- “Can Social Obligation Scale?” Food for thought from Leigh Stein.
- “What to Do When the Vitriol Comes for You.” Advice from Blair Glaser, published on the Brevity blog.
- ICYMI: The December issue of The Practicing Writer 2.0 went out to subscribers yesterday. As usual, it’s packed with fee-free and paying opportunities, some of which I’ve spotlighted on My Machberet.
Wishing everyone a good weekend.
Markets and Jobs for Writers
Each week in this space, Practicing Writing shares no-fee, paying markets for writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction: competitions, contests, and calls for submissions. These weekly posts complement monthly issues of The Practicing Writer newsletter, where you’ll always find more listings, none of them limiting eligibility to residents of a single municipality, state, or province. (But this blog does share those more localized opportunities, including jobs.)
As always, if you’d like to share a specific opportunity listed here, please credit the blog for the find. Thanks for respecting the time and effort that I put into researching, curating, and posting this information! I do notice, and I appreciate the courtesy.
(more…)#SundaySentence
Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
(more…)Finds for Writers
Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to peruse over the weekend.
- At the conjunction of Thanksgiving weekend and Native American Heritage Month, from the Nieman Storyboard archive: “University of Montana journalist Jason Begay, of the Navajo Nation, talks to Washington Post journalist Dana Hedgpeth, of the Haliwa-Saponi tribe, about living with and correcting history.”
- Within Marie Cloutier’s latest Substack: “Awesome Gifts for Bookish People and Writers.”
- ‘Tis the season: the Largehearted Boy “Essential and Interesting ‘Best of 2023’ Book Lists” aggregation is in the works.
- By this time next week, the December newsletter will have gone out to subscribers, but plenty of fee-free-and-paying opportunities listed in the November issue remain open for submissions, as do some items shared in recent Markets & Jobs posts.
- And over on the My Machberet blog, you’ll find a fresh set of Jewish-literary links, including a giveaway, a (very) part-time gig alert, and more.
Wishing everyone a good weekend.
Markets and Jobs for Writers
Each week in this space, Practicing Writing shares no-fee, paying markets for writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction: competitions, contests, and calls for submissions. These weekly posts complement monthly issues of The Practicing Writer newsletter, where you’ll always find more listings, none of them limiting eligibility to residents of a single municipality, state, or province. (But this blog does share those more localized opportunities, including jobs.)
As always, if you’d like to share a specific opportunity listed here, please credit the blog for the find. Thanks for respecting the time and effort that I put into researching, curating, and posting this information! I do notice, and I appreciate the courtesy.
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