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.”

My mother and the other Muriels and friends with other names we rarely hear anymore, like Bernice and Mildred, were also, in their own way, the Greatest.

Source: Sandee Brawarsky, “Into the Fold: A Mother’s Grace” (The Jewish Week)

Monday Markets and Jobs for Writers

dollar-sign-mdMonday brings the weekly batch of no-fee, paying listings of 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). (more…)