The Whole Megillah- Mid-Week NotesThree quick things: I’m on a week’s break from Gratz, but instead of filling it with my own creative writing, I’ll be grading student compositions. The October Writing Chai prompt goes out on Friday. If interested in participating, send me … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week NotesThree quick things: I’m thinking about Nanowrimo to work on a novel I abandoned in 2011. Anyone thinking about participating? This “event” motivates you to write 50,000 words during the month of November at a rate of about 1700 words … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Notes | Leshone ToyveThree quick things: The late composition guru Donald Murray reminds me to think of the first draft as the discovery draft and the second draft as the developmental draft. For more, see his Write to Learn. My Yiddish studies are … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week NotesThree quick things: Editorial work has begun on my middle-grade novel-in-verse, 37 Days, about the voyage of the doomed MS St. Louis in 1939. The publisher is Kar-Ben. So far, so good! In teaching freshman composition, I’m reminded of Anne … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- The Whole Megillah Announces Writing Chai!Writing Chai is a new, eighteen-month program of prompts from The Whole Megillah. Each month (on the 18th) members of the Writing Chai community will receive a prompt and have access to a private Facebook page to post their writing, … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week NotesThree quick things: No sooner did I send my work out do I begin to receive rejections. Form email rejections. Did they even read my work? Oy. I signed up for a free online course with the esteemed emerita Harvard … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Author’s Notebook | The Challah Girl by Bracha K. SharpThe Challah Girl by Bracha K. Sharp, illustrated by Anita Tung, Mosaica Press, 2019 The Whole Megillah (TWM): What inspired you to write this story? Bracha K. Sharp (BKS): At first, it was actually more of a case regarding who … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week NotesThree quick things: I said I would and I did: I sent some of my poetry out into the world over the Labor Day weekend. I’d still like to send out more. I sent a new YA historical novel to … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week NotesThree quick things: I’m dedicating Labor Day to send some poetry out into the world. I wanted to use part of the weekend to revise a novella, but given other commitments, that’s just not going to happen. My Yiddish class … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- 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
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Category Archives: Two-in-One
Two-in-One Notebook | Author L.B. Schulman and Senior Editor Mary Colgan, Stolen Secrets
Schulman, L. B. Stolen Secrets. Boyds Mills Press, 2017, 304 pp. The Whole Megillah (TWM): How did you come up with the idea for this book? L.B. Schulman (LS): After listening to an interview on the radio, I realized that before … Continue reading
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Two-in-One Authors’ Notebook | Oedipus in Brooklyn & Other Stories by Blume Lempel, translated by Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories by Blume Lempel, translated by Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub. Mandel Vilar Press and Dryad Press, November 15, 2016. The Whole Megillah (TWM): How did this project come about? Ellen Cassedy (EC): Years ago, … Continue reading
Two-in-One Notebook: Novelist Ruchama Feuerman and Agent Anna Olswanger
The Whole Megillah (TWM): You write for children and adults. How do you balance your time and interest? Ruchama Feuerman (RF): I don’t. I’m all over the place. When I resonate with a project, I devour it and it devours … Continue reading
Two-in-One Notebook Special: Spinoza: the Outcast Thinker with Author Devra Lehmann and Editor Karen Klockner
The Whole Megillah (TWM): Why Spinoza? How did you come to this subject? Devra Lehmann (DL): Spinoza had hovered in my mind ever since high school, when my Jewish history teacher briefly mentioned Spinoza as a Jew tragically gone off the … Continue reading
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National Jewish Book Award Winner| The Patchwork Torah with Author Allison Ofanansky and Illustrator Elsa Oriol
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award Illustrated Children’s Book Category The Patchwork Torah is a global collaboration between U.S.-based publisher, Kar-Ben, author Allison Ofanansky in Israel and illustrator Elsa Oriol in France. The Whole Megillah (TWM): Allison, what inspired you … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014 national jewish book awards, allison ofanansky, elsa oriol, Kar-Ben, the patchwork torah
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Two-in-One Author’s Notebook | Hidden Like Anne Frank
Welcome to 2015! I’m back after a bout of cancer and am starting the New Year off with an interview with Hidden Like Anne Frank co-author Marcel Prins and translator Laura Watkinson. The book includes 14 oral history narratives of Jews hidden … Continue reading
Two-in-One Notebook Special | The Whispering Town
Today The Whole Megillah speaks with The Whispering Town (Kar-Ben, 2014) author Jennifer Elvgren and illustrator Fabio Santomauro. The Whole Megillah (TWM): What inspired you to write this book? Jennifer Elvgren (JE): I have always been drawn to Holocaust literature. As … Continue reading
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