Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to peruse over the weekend. Continue reading ›
Midweek Notes from a Practicing Writer
Three quick things:
1. Happy New Year! If you haven’t seen it yet, the January Practicing Writer newsletter has gone out to subscribers. It will remain online for the rest of the month, until the February edition replaces it.
2. The newsletter highlights a newly updated resource on this website: a page to help you identify “Where to Publish Your Work.”
3. I am feeling reasonably satisfied with the work I accomplished over the holidays (deadlines—met!). But I confess that after the long New Year’s weekend I am finding it a tad difficult settling in to work today. Any tips?
Monday Markets and Jobs for Writers
The weekly batch of no-fee, paying competitions, contests, and calls for submissions—plus jobs for those of us who write (especially those of us who write fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction). These posts are intended to complement/supplement monthly issues of The Practicing Writer newsletter, where you’ll always find more listings.
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Sunday Sentence
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
Two hundred years ago the pregnant women
were wheeled to the Louvre to gaze
at portraits of beautiful nobles,
thinking the lovely features
would travel through their sight
to form their babies’ faces.
Source: Colleen Abel, “The Expectant” (Remake: Poems)
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