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Jewish Theater Residency Opportunity in NYC

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This sounds like a terrific opportunity:

LABA: The National Laboratory for New Jewish Culture at the 14th Street Y and the Jewish Plays Project are seeking five collaborative teams of theater artists for a three-week pilot residency program. Modeled on the Space residency at Mabou Mines (and to some extend ART-NY’s Creative Spaces Grant), the residency is designed to give selected artists time, space and support to create vibrant new work that extends the Jewish conversation through cutting-edge theater forms and techniques….Selected artists will also participate in the revolutionary artists’ Beit Midrash process developed at LABA, learning how ancient texts can inspire and inform their artistry.

There’s a lot to absorb on the website (scroll down) regarding eligibility and the application process, so be forewarned. But there’s NO FEE to apply. Proposals are due by 6 p.m. on March 15. Good luck!

Paired Writing Contests on “The Catskills and the Holocaust”

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I’m not sure that I’ve ever seen anything quite like this before: paired writing contests–one in fiction and one in nonfiction–as part of a book project, Summer Haven: How the Catskills Experienced the Holocaust, edited by Holli Levitsky, Professor of English and Director of Jewish Studies at Loyola Marymount University, and Phil Brown, Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at Brown University, “which will provide a locus for literature exploring the experience of the Holocaust in the Catskills.”

Clicking the link above, you’ll find much more explanation about these contests. I’ll just give you some basics: no entry fees indicated and deadlines of July 1, 2012. For each contest, the winner will receive $500 and up to $500 for travel costs to present the work at the November 2012 Jewish American and Holocaust Literature Symposium in Miami. Winning works will also be published in the Levitsky/Brown book.

Lilith Magazine Extends Contest Deadlines

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Lilith magazine, which describes itself as “independent, Jewish & frankly feminist,” has extended the deadlines for both its Charlotte Newberger Poetry Competition and its Annual Fiction Contest. Entries for both competitions are now due March 15, 2012, and there are no entry fees. Cash awards and publication await the winners, so take a look at the guidelines.

On a personal-professional note, I’ll add that I’m happy to see Lilith using an online submission manager, and I appreciate all of the additional submission guidelines that the magazine has made available there. Plus, I’m eternally grateful to Lilith for releasing one of my own early short stories in print. (The story has also been made available on the Web as part of the magazine’s online adoption anthology).

Anthology Seeks Work from Jewish Women Writers

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I’ll admit that I was a little surprised when I saw this call for submissions, which showed up on a list I subscribe to titled PayingWriterJobs. I was surprised because there’s no payment for selected work. But, as I’ve said before, because the publication opportunities with Jewish-themed magazines and websites are more limited than those that I feature on Practicing Writing and in The Practicing Writer, I relax the “must-pay” standard when I post opportunities for writers on My Machberet. So here you go: (more…)

Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

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Shabbat shalom!