The Whole Megillah- Mid-Week Field Notes–January 26, 2022Some very quick things: I’ve been highly distracted by an auto-immune skin disease, that despite various treatments, continues to spread as a rash and create erosive legions. Each day is a new nightmare. Overnight it has affected my eyes, fingers, … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- 2022 Sydney Taylor Book Awards AnnouncedThis morning the Association of Jewish Libraries issued a press release announcing the winners of the annual Sydney Taylor Book Awards. Congratulations to all the gold medal, silver medal, and notable books and their authors. 2022 Sydney Taylor Book, Manuscript, … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 3, What You Don’t See about MeWeek 3’s #52snapshots prompt is about what others don’t know or can’t see about you. My first draft was about all missing organs: tonsils, two parathyroid glands, female parts, and gall bladder. But as I was writing about the gall … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- 2021 National Jewish Book Awards AnnouncedToday the Jewish Book Council announced winners and finalists of its National Jewish Book Awards. For the entire press release and list, click here. Mazel tov to all winners and finalists! Children’s Picture Book Winner: Dear Mr. Dickens Nancy Churnin, illustrated … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–January 19, 2022Some very quick things: The first issue of The Sepia Chronicles | Writing the Past went out on Sunday. If interested in subscribing to this or the writing family history and memoir newsletter, please either comment below or send an … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 2, I RememberSaturday night trips for books and records Week 2’s #52snapshots prompt is about “I Remember.” I made a list of things I remembered with a time limit of five minutes. The items revolved around trips with my father. I don’t … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–January 12, 2022Some very quick things: I’ve been accepted into the Kenyon Review writing session for teachers and adjuncts later this month. I’m thrilled to be writing with other educators under the auspices of a literary journal I revere. The Sepia Chronicles … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Author’s Notebook | The Book Bible by Susan ShapiroShapiro, Susan. The Book Bible: How to Sell Your Manuscript–No Matter What Genre–Without Going Broke or Insane. New York: Skyhorse, February 2022. Last winter I read Susan Shapiro‘s The Byline Bible and gained inspiration to write about why my grandmother, … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 1, My NameInstead of marking #52snapshots as a 2021 done deal, I decided for 2022 I would follow Sonja Livingston’s 52 prompts exactly as laid out in Fifty-Two Snapshots: A Memoir Starter Kit. By the end of the year, I should have … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–January 5, 2022Some very quick things: I have decided on a different #52snapshot journey for 2022. I will write to a different prompt from Sonja Livingston‘s Fifty-Two Snapshots: A Memoir Starter Kit each Friday and blog about the process and insights. I … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
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2021 National Jewish Book Awards Announced
Today the Jewish Book Council announced winners and finalists of its National Jewish Book Awards. For the entire press release and list, click here. Mazel tov to all winners and finalists! Children’s Picture Book Winner: Dear Mr. Dickens Nancy Churnin, illustrated … Continue reading
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Mid-Week Field Notes–December 8, 2021
Some very quick things: I’m very much enjoying the new issue of the Jewish Book Council’s Paper Brigade literary journal. I had no idea Bambi was really an allegory about antisemitism. Or about the first female Jewish rabbi, who was … Continue reading
Mid-Week Field Notes | May 26, 2021
Some quick things: I await yet more comments from my editor on my Ethel Rosenberg bio in verse. I know what I’ll be doing over Memorial Day weekend! Today I’m giving my two-minute pitch at the Jewish Book Council’s Author … Continue reading
Mid-Week Field Notes | May 5, 2021
A few quick things this week: In May, I engage in three new generative writing programs: A three-week class at the Montclair Adult School via Zoom in braided essays, taught by my “landsman” Marian Calabro, to whom I credit my … Continue reading
Mid-Week Field Notes | April 28, 2021
Three quick things this week: I have signed the contract for my bio in verse and have completed the revisions. As soon as I’m able, I’ll announce the work. Meanwhile, I’ve joined a novel-writing Amherst Writers & Artists group for … Continue reading
Mid-Week Field Notes
Three quick things this week: I’ve been listening to records my uncle and my aunt (his sister) made circa 1943-1944. What a hoot! The records were to be played at “victory speed” and were sent in lieu of letters. My … Continue reading
Jewish Book Council Announces 2020 National Jewish Book Awards
2020 National Jewish Book Award Winners JBC Staff January 27, 2021 2020 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS ANNOUNCED Book of the Year Awarded to Rabbi Jonathan Sacks for Morality Laura Arnold Leibman Wins Three Awards with The Art of the Jewish Family Colum McCann Wins Fiction Award with Apeirogon New York, January 27, 2021—Jewish … Continue reading
Mid-Week Field Notes
Four quick things this week: I will now be a featured speaker about my middle-grade novel in verse, 37 Days at Sea: Aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939, at a Yom Hashoah event at the Mercer County Holocaust, Genocide & … Continue reading
Thursday Links
Here are this week’s links: From Tablet: “A Holocaust Fairy Tale from France“ Looking for something to do on Christmas Eve? Join the Jewish Review of Books Dec. 24 interview with historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein, author of Suitcases Full of … Continue reading
Mid-Week Notes
Three quick things: The Jewish Book Council has just announced its 2019 winners. I agree with some choices, like Michael Dobbs’s Unwanted and, of course, Lesléa Newman’s Gittel’s Journey. But another book that won I thought lacked any authenticity. Sigh. … Continue reading
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