Finds for Writers
Writing and publishing resources, news, and reflections to peruse over the weekend.
(more…)Midweek Notes from a Practicing Writer
Three quick updates from my desk.
1. At the moment, it feels as though I’m bouncing from one writing project to another—and not always making a whole lot of progress in/completing any of them. But maybe I’ll have a more sanguine outlook next week!
(more…)Markets & 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. The 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.)
(more…)Sunday Sentence
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.”
Sometimes, they’ll be in the bath or doing their homework, and I’ll hear them saying the words under their breath, the melody as soothing as a lullaby.
Source: Rachel Beanland, “How to Hang a Mezuzah” (Creative Nonfiction; the essay isn’t posted online)
Finds for Writers
Writing and publishing resources, news, and reflections to peruse over the weekend.
(more…)Midweek Notes from a Practicing Writer
Three brief updates from my desk.
1. Cover (and pub date) reveal! I have work appearing in two forthcoming anthologies. Not long ago I shared the cover reveal for one of them (The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction).
And now, I can share similar news about the other:
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