Friday Finds for Writers
Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend. (more…)
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Friday Finds for Writers
Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend. (more…)
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.”
We’re not dead!
Source: Matthew Olzmann, “Letter to Mike Scalise” (Fogged Clarity)
Midweek Notes from a Practicing Writer
Pages from Pagis
There are so many things that I love about “Jewish Sources, Literary Narrative: A Writing Workshop,” the class I’m taking this fall at the Drisha Institute. Here’s one: Instructor Amy Gottlieb routinely shares with us work by poets who are new to me. And I’m following up by adding those poets’ books to my tbr lists.
Last weekend, thanks to the collections of the New York Society Library, I dug into Dan Pagis’s work (translated by Stephen Mitchell). And in addition to the overtly “Jewish” poems like the one Amy brought to us in class, I ran across this one, which I can’t help thinking will appeal to all writers.
And Speaking of Poetry
Monday Markets and Jobs
Monday brings the weekly batch of no-fee competitions/contests, paying submission calls, and jobs for those of us who write (especially those of us who write fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction). (more…)