The Whole Megillah- Mid-Week Field Notes | April 14, 2021Three quick things this week: Because I’m revising verse and because it’s National Poetry Month, I’ve ordered two books each from CavanKerry Press and Dos Madres Press for inspiration. Blog interviews are beginning to emerge about my middle-grade novel in … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots–Week 15In the past week, I’ve revised a non-snapshot essay about a friend who died, trying to understand our relationship, and how perhaps her sometimes erratic behavior was driven by her illness that she didn’t talk about, at least not to … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes | April 7, 2021Three quick things this week: For the next few weeks I will be deep in revision on various projects, especially my bio in verse. I’m reading other novels in verse and just good poetry to keep me inspired. Any suggestions? … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots–Week 14I think the trick to fueling these snapshots, at least for me, is research. I wanted to revise my piece on the basement of my childhood home. Rumor had it that the basement had been a speakeasy. Using Ancestry, I … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Author’s Notebook | The Woodcarver’s Daughter by Yona Zeldis McDonoughMcDonough, Yona Zeldis. The Woodcarver’s Daughter. Kar-Ben, April 2021, 128 pp. The Whole Megillah (TWM): What inspired you to write The Woodcarver’s Daughter?Yona Zeldis McDonough (YZM): I had gone to the Museum of American Folk Art to see a show … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes | March 31, 2021Three quick things this week: My books arrived! Summer plans: I’ll be working on my database of Holocaust children’s literature, expanding it from the 1960s and through 2021. Then, I’ll take guidance from a statistician colleague to code the database … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots–Week 13I think I may be running out of steam on #52snapshots. I need some breathing room to jot down a list of questions I have about my own family history–what do I want to know more about? It could be … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes | March 24, 2021Four quick things this week: I’ve signed up to support Amherst Writers & Artists in their Write around the World fundraising event. I’m facilitating a session on May 9. I received an offer of publication for my bio in verse … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots–Week 12I know I will have to bring my “basement” piece through a revision process to find a core throughline and finesse it to a literary level. When I will do that, I just don’t know. This Week I’ve been wondering … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Thursday Links | March 18, 2021Here are this week’s links: Want to know what to do with flotsam and jetsam of raw creative writing material you generate? Check out Emily Stoddard’s demonstration at Ruminate Happenings. What do you consider when sending your creative work out … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
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Tag Archives: Anna Levine
Author’s Notebook | All Eyes on Alexandra by Anna Levine
All Eyes on Alexandra, written by Anna Levine and illustrated by Chiara Pasqualotto. 32 pp., Kar-Ben, September 2018. The Whole Megillah (TWM): In this book, you’ve personified a family of cranes and used Abba, Ima, Savta, and Saba. How did … Continue reading
Take Advantage of the Purim 10% Discount | Writing Jewish-Themed Children’s Books, a Highlights Workshop
Writing Jewish-Themed Children’s Books | A Highlights Foundation Workshop June 8 – 11, 2014 Time is running out! Special Offer: 10% discount if you apply before March 14 (Purim) In bucolic Boyds Mills, Pennsylvania, the Highlights Foundation offers for the … Continue reading
Take Advantage of the Purim 10% Discount | Writing Jewish-Themed Children’s Books, a Highlights Workshop
Writing Jewish-Themed Children’s Books | A Highlights Foundation Workshop June 8 – 11, 2014 Time is running out! Special Offer: 10% discount if you apply before March 14 (Purim) In bucolic Boyds Mills, Pennsylvania, the Highlights Foundation offers for the … Continue reading
Upcoming Jewish Writers’ Conferences & Workshops
15th Annual Jewish Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators Seminar Sponsored by the Jewish Book Council Sunday, November 10, Center for Jewish History Learn more>>> Jewish Story Sponsored by The Whole Megillah LLC in conjunction with the Association of Jewish Libraries … Continue reading
Announcing the Winners | The Whole Megillah Rosh Hashonah Challenge
Please join me in saying “Mazel tov!” to the winners of The Whole Megillah’s Rosh Hashonah Challenge. Middle Grade category (in alphabetical order) Marcia Berneger, “What’s Up with Jonas?” Anne Brentan, “Finding Home” Eve Nadel Catarevas (untitled) Young adult category … Continue reading
Author’s Notebook | Anna Levine
At last year’s annual convention of the Association of Jewish Libraries in Montreal, I had the pleasure of meeting up with author Anna Levine. See what she has to say in this video about why she writes about Israel and … Continue reading
