The Whole Megillah- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 25 — The BodyI’m now a week behind in writing these memoir vignettes. So while this is technically Week 26, I’m offering up Week 25 here today. The prompt calls for writing about the body and I chose to write about my mother’s … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–June 29, 2022Some very quick things: I have a Zoom session with my agent later this week to discuss my writing career. I feel like I’m standing at the crossroads, deciding which way to go. In the Kenyon Review online poetry workshop, … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–June 22, 2022Some very quick things: The Kenyon Review poetry workshop doesn’t seem to accommodate what I need to do for my novel in verse, but it is helping with standalone poems and is introducing me to some very awesome poets. I’m … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 24 — Beggars’ NightThe Week 24 prompt is called Beggars’ Night–the night before Halloween that we called Mischief Night. The prompt calls for writing to describe refusal. I thought about the time my parents stashed me at my father’s father’s house a block … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–June 15, 2022Some very quick things: One of the things I learned at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum faculty seminar in the last two weeks was how to read and analyze photographs. I used the methodology this past Sunday with my Writing … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Author’s Notebook | I Will Protect You by Eva Mozes Kor with Danica DavidsonKor, Eva Mozes, with Danica Davidson. I Will Protect You: A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz. New York and Boston: Little Brown, 2022. 226 pp. $17.99 The Whole Megillah (TWM): How did this project come about? Danica Davidson … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 23 — The OutsiderThis week’s prompt requires writing about someone who didn’t fit in. Frankly, that could be anyone and everyone. I chose to write about a high school classmate who definitely marched to the beat of her own drummer. She was not … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–June 8, 2022Some very quick things: One of my short stories, one I felt pretty good about, received three rejections in the last week. I’ve lobbed it into a critique service, although in retrospect, I should probably have “critiqued” it myself. I … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–June 1, 2022Some very quick things: My essay about my grandfather and his matchmaker postcard keeps getting rejected. I’m going to take it next to my AWA memoir group over the next couple of months and get some feedback. Still working on … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 21 — Who Are Your PeopleFor Week 21, the assignment is to describe a group you belong to. I chose to write about the Jewish community of Kearny and North Arlington. Lately I’ve been thinking about how the synagogue proved to be the center of … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 25 — The Body
Monthly Archives: November 2010
The Best Hanukkah Present You Can Give Yourself
Best Jewish Books for Children and Teens by Linda R. Silver (Jewish Publication Society, 2010) While you’re out buying Hanukkah presents for your kids or your grandkids, don’t forget your own needs. If you write Jewish content for kids, the … Continue reading
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Tagged best jewish children's books, Jewish Publication Society, JPS, Linda Silver
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Report on the 12th Annual Jewish Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators Conference
Anyone who doubted that the annual Jewish Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators conference in New York City would continue its longstanding tradition of excellence as sponsorship and venue moved from the 92nd Street Y to the Jewish Book Council (JBC) … Continue reading
Posted in Writers Conferences
Tagged Ann Koffsky, Behrman House, David Bernstein, Elana Roth, Jewish Book Council, Jewish children's books, Jewish writers conferences, Judye Groner, Kar-Ben, Kendra Levin, Laura Toffler-Corrie, Mark Levine, Robbin Gourley, Stephanie Lurie, Sydney Taylor Book Award, Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award, Yona Zeldis McDonough
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Author’s Notebook | Eric Kimmel
The Whole Megillah (TWM): What makes a great storyteller? Eric Kimmel (EK): You have to love being a storyteller. You have to love telling a story and making it come alive with your words. I always feel that I’m a … Continue reading
Lower East Side Tenement Museum | Snapshot, Take Two!
Yesterday I attended the encore Snapshot! event at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum at 97 Orchard Street in New York City. The first time I went to the museum was a few years ago to research an immigrant novel … Continue reading
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Tagged Jewish immigrants, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Snapshot, Tenement Museum
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Agent’s Notebook | Alyssa Eisner Henkin, Trident Media Group
Alyssa Eisner Henkin, Children’s Book Agent at Trident Media Group in New York City and a featured speaker at the 2009 Jewish Children’s Writers & Illustrators Conference, answers a few questions for The Whole Megillah. The Whole Megillah (TWM): What … Continue reading
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Tagged Alyssa Eisner Henkin, children's book agents, Trident Media Group
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