Jewish Literary Links
Toward the end of each week, the My Machberet blog presents a collection of links, drawn primarily from the world of Jewish books and writing.
- Happening this week: the Metula Poetry Festival. But, as Jessica Steinberg reports for The Times of Israel, for the first time in its nearly 30-year history, the festival isn’t taking place in Metula, “a rustic northern town abutting the Israel-Lebanon border, but rather in Jerusalem.”
- Writing on the Wall seeks “Scarred” poetry and visual-art submissions: “Perhaps some of us thought we were unscarred before October 7th – but the generational scars written into our collective history have suddenly opened again. Scars upon scars. We never forget the wounds, but we write about our scars to continue, to live, to heal.” Deadline: September 20.
- “Michael Gawenda’s My Life as a Jew has won the Leslie and Sophie Caplan Award for Jewish Non-Fiction at the inaugural Australian Jewish Book Awards.” (Deborah Stone reports for The Jewish Independent.)
- Free upcoming online events: On September 16, the American Ladino League will host Ruth Behar for “Becoming a Sephardic Storyteller”; Behar will be in conversation with Hannah Pressman. Elsewhere, “Unlocking Your Memories: A Lilith Writing Workshop” will be facilitated by Lesléa Newman September 26.
- And I’ll have more to say about this in the September issue of The Practicing Writer 2.0 (which will go out tomorrow, by the way; it’s never too late to subscribe [it’s free!]). But you don’t need to wait to check out this effort for “Global Inclusive Representation in Independent Bookstores.”
Wishing everyone a Shabbat shalom. And noting, again, that updates continue for both “After October 7: Readings, Recordings, and More” and “Writers, Beware.”
