Three quick things.
1. Success! Remember the essay-in-progress that I’ve been mentioning lately? It found a home last week. Titled “The Un-Stunned,” it offers some personal reflections on the uptick in antisemitism here in the United States. (On the writing front, it also features a flashback to how I incorporated some similar thoughts in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks into fiction that I was writing at the time.)
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1. Discount alert! If you’re interested in the book-promo webinar that I’ll be teaching in March, Hidden Timber Books is offering a sweet deal if you enroll in two others as well (topics: “How to Get a Literary Agent” with Allison K. Williams and “Breaking Out of the Slush Pile,” with Catherine Lundoff). The 15% discount for the bundle of three events runs until January 29.
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(more…)Happy New Year, everyone! Herewith, three quick things.
(more…)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, none of them limiting eligibility to residents of a single municipality, state, or province (this blog, on the other hand, does sometimes include those more restricted opportunities).
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