Midweek Notes from a Practicing Writer
Three quick updates from my desk.
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Jewish Book Carnival: September 2021
The My Machberet blog is proud to serve as September 2021 host for the Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly event where those who cover Jewish books online “can meet, read, and comment on each others’ posts.” Organized by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL), the Carnival travels around and is hosted on a different participant’s site on the 15th of each month.
(more…)Finds for Writers
Writing and publishing resources, news, and reflections to peruse over the weekend.
(more…)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. 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.)
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!
(more…)Midweek Notes from a Practicing Writer
Three quick updates from my desk.
1. My continuing education in the writing of kidlit continues. This week, I read a picture book that I think may serve as a model for the kind of picture-book biography that I hope to write. I also went ahead and joined the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI).
(more…)Midweek Notes from a Practicing Writer
Three quick updates from my desk.
1. I’m proud to be hosting the latest Jewish Book Carnival on my “other” blog, My Machberet. The July 2020 Carnival went live earlier this morning.
2. Yesterday, my friend Jessamyn Hope was the featured author in the latest online event organized by Jerusalism. So I would have “attended” it even without the open-mic element that followed Jessamyn’s own reading (from a gorgeous essay that you’ll find in the forthcoming anthology The New Spice Box: Contemporary Jewish Writing).
But Jessamyn had encouraged me to sign up to read from Birthright: Poems. So I did!
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