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- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 32–What You Wanted as a Kid But Didn’t GetThis week’s prompt asks us to write about the things we wanted as kids but didn’t get. My twin and I had our designated space in the “back-back” of the family station wagon. We loved to sit facing out and … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–August 10, 2022Some very quick things: How do you decide whether to send work to literary journal general submissions to enter contests? This is something I’m grappling with right now. The contest I have in mind has a deadline of February 1, … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Two-in-One Author’s Notebook | A Visit to Moscow with Author Anna Olswanger and Illustrator Yevgenia NaybergOlswanger, Anna. A Visit to Moscow. Illustrated by Yevgenia Nayberg. Berkeley, CA: WestMargin Press, 2022, 72 pp. The Whole Megillah (TWM): What prompted the form of a graphic novel for you? Anna Olswanger (AO): As soon as I entered grade … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 31–Lost & FoundThis week prompts what we’ve lost and what we’ve found. I sort of ignored the first part and decided to focus on a time around 1967 when I saw my father start to drown in the pool of Boston’s Midtown … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–August 3, 2022Some very quick things: I finished the first draft of my next historical novel in verse and have sent it on to my poetry mentor and the historical subject matter expert. I hope to get feedback by mid-month so I … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 30–InheritanceThis week’s prompt provides a few options for writing about inheritance: Write about something handed down–could be a physical object, a personality trait, or a hobby Write about what you did not inherit When you look in the mirror, what … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–July 27, 2022Some very quick things: My poem, “Ancestor Manifesto,” appears on the Amherst Writers & Artists website, a result of the organization’s Write Around the World social justice fundraiser in May. The Poetica website announced the winners of the 2022 Miriam … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Weeks 26 and 29–Fear (26) and A Single Comfort Food (29)With this post I am all caught up on snapshots. Week 26’s prompt called for writing about what terrified you as a kid. My list included the basement and attic, an irrational fear that my parents would divorce, the genie … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–July 20, 2022Some very quick things: Last chance to learn more about a family photograph by writing about it! “Writing from and about Photographs” takes place Wednesday, July 20, from 7-9 pm ET. See my website for details. I’ve been keeping my … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Weeks 22 and 28–Stories Mother Told (22) and Comfort Food (28)I am still trying to catch up on the weeks I missed. Part of me wants to give up on a snapshot each week. I really don’t know what I’ll do with all these snippets. Another part of me wants … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
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Tag Archives: The Assignment
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
Reminder: International Holocaust Remembrance Day Event
On Jan. 27 at 6 pm ET, join a conversation hosted by the Mercer County Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Center with YA author Liza Wiemer about her novel, The Assignment, based on the true story of two teens in … Continue reading
Mid-Week Field Notes
Three quick things this week: A client of mine at the Olswanger Literary LLC agency saw that my middle-grade novel in verse, 37 Days at Sea: Aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939, is on amazon for pre-sale. Thanks, Joanne Fritz! … Continue reading
Author’s Notebook | The Assignment by Liza Wiemer–Now a 2021 Sydney Taylor Notable Book!
Wiemer, Liza. The Assignment. Delacorte Press, 2020, $17.99 The Whole Megillah (TWM): What prompted you to write The Assignment? Liza Wiemer (LZ): On April 4, 2017, I visited Oswego, New York, for a book signing at River’s End Bookstore for … Continue reading