The Whole Megillah- Mid-Week NotesThree quick things: Stay tuned for the September 18 launch of a new writing program from The Whole Megillah. It’s called Writing Chai, an eighteen-month program of writing prompts and sharing with an intense eighteen days of prompts starting December … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Author’s Notebook | The Book of Jeremiah by Julie ZuckermanZuckerman, Julie. The Book of Jeremiah: A Novel in Stories. Winston-Salem, NC: Press 53, 2019. 190 pp., $17.95. The Whole Megillah (TWM): What motivated this collection of linked short stories? Julie Zuckerman (JZ): The Book of Jeremiah started with one … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week NotesThree quick things: Some writer pals and I agreed today to meet up every August to write together at a retreat starting in 2020. Does anyone else do something like this? I’ll be taking a beginning Yiddish class this fall … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week NotesThree quick things: I wrote with an AWA group on Saturday and came up with two new poems for my YA work in progress. There is an opening in the next cycle of The Whole Megillah Online Fiction Workshop. The … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Author’s Notebook | Rachel’s Roses by Ferida WolffFerida Wolff, Rachel’s Roses, illustrated by Margeaux Lucas. New York: Holiday House, Available August 20, 2019. 112 pages. The Whole Megillah (TWM): What motivated you to write Rachel’s Roses? Ferida Wolff (FW): I was telling a friend about how my … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week NotesThree quick things: Word to the Wise: Beware of one-person publishing houses. ‘Nuff said. I’m trying to figure out the marketability of a YA novel I bill as “Pride & Prejudice Meets the Shtetl.” Your thoughts? The year is 1913. … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week NotesThree quick things: I didn’t expect to write poetry during my PhD class this week, but I am! It’s kind of ekphrastic based on sculpture, painting, photography as well as on music, particularly the sound of the oboe. I may … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week NotesThree quick things: I’ve hired a Jewish life expert in Poland to vet my novel under contract. On Brevity’s blog today, I read about DIY retreats. I’ve been doing this for years. At first, I booked myself into bed & … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week NotesThree quick things: I am thinking about iconography in children’s Holocaust literature. What are the typical symbols? I’ve also been thinking about children’s books about other genocides. There seems to be relatively few. Do any come to mind for you? … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week NotesThree quick things: Even while traveling and participating in fellowships, I am continuing to write poetry, one poem at a time. This is part of a new contemporary YA work in progress. At some point, I really need to focus … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
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Category Archives: Authors
Author’s Notebook | The Book of Jeremiah by Julie Zuckerman
Zuckerman, Julie. The Book of Jeremiah: A Novel in Stories. Winston-Salem, NC: Press 53, 2019. 190 pp., $17.95. The Whole Megillah (TWM): What motivated this collection of linked short stories? Julie Zuckerman (JZ): The Book of Jeremiah started with one … Continue reading
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Author’s Notebook | Rachel’s Roses by Ferida Wolff
Ferida Wolff, Rachel’s Roses, illustrated by Margeaux Lucas. New York: Holiday House, Available August 20, 2019. 112 pages. The Whole Megillah (TWM): What motivated you to write Rachel’s Roses? Ferida Wolff (FW): I was telling a friend about how my … Continue reading
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Author’s Notebook | The Brave Princess and Me, written by Kathy Kacer
The Brave Princess and Me, written by Kathy Kacer and illustrated by Juliana Kolesova, Second Story Press, September 2019, 32 pp., $18.95. The Whole Megillah (TWM): The Brave Princess and Me might just be the first Holocaust book for kids … Continue reading
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Author’s Notebook | Matzah Belowstairs, Written by Susan L. Meyer
Matzah Belowstairs, written by Susan L. Meyer and illustrated by Mette Engell. Kar-Ben, 2019, 24 pp. Hardcover, $17.99; paperback, $7.99. Ebook also available. The Whole Megillah (TWM): What inspired this story? Susan Lynn Meyer (SLM): I’ve often sat at seder … Continue reading
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Author’s Notebook | Martin and Anne by Nancy Churnin
Martin and Anne: The Kindred Spirits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank, written by Nancy Churnin and illustrated by Yevgenia Nayberg, Creston Books, 2019, $17.99. The Whole Megillah (TWM): What inspired you to bring Martin Luther King, … Continue reading
Author’s Notebook | Creation Colors by Ann D. Koffsky
Creation Colors by Ann D. Koffsky, 24 pp., $17.95, Apples & Honey Press, April 2019 The Whole Megillah (TWM): What was your inspiration for this story? Ann Koffsky (AK): A huge, blank wall. Really! My synagogue has a large blank … Continue reading
