Thanks so much for this interview with Nora Gold about Jewish Fiction Journal. Very exciting for me as I am a Jewish author seeking representation and opportunities to showcase my work. I would like to recommend another online lit mag dedicated to Jewish fiction; Judith, started by Alyssa Wald. Not only have I had a piece featured in Judith but I am enjoying the weekly offerings in poetry, fiction, non-fiction and children’s literature. Check it out if you haven’t already.
I have been a longtime subscriber to your lit mag news and thank you for all your efforts.
I want to second the great work that Elissa Wald and the editorial team at Judith magazine are doing: https://judithmagazine.substack.com/. And I also want to thank Becky for this interview. I've been following Nora Gold for years (I was dazzled by her collection MARROW AND OTHER STORIES, which I first learned about at a Jewish literary conference) and am so pleased that my own work—a standalone excerpt from my (ahem) unpublished novel—is in her journal's archive.
JF doesn't pay, we discover at the end of the interview after Nora Gold's rant about how Palestinians are not victims of a brutal apartheid and European colonial settler state, but its submissions page doesn't say they don't pay. I have written to the magazine to insist that they be transparent about this. It is shoddy business for lit mags to solicit submissions without being clear what the business arrangement is, and I am really sick of the "of course we don't pay, we don't have any money" excuse, as if writers are supposed to *assume* that we work for free. To hell with that. All of it.
Hi Becky,
Thank you for this. I particularly enjoyed her insight into what made Jewish literature.
Jane Vogel
Hi Becky,
Thanks so much for this interview with Nora Gold about Jewish Fiction Journal. Very exciting for me as I am a Jewish author seeking representation and opportunities to showcase my work. I would like to recommend another online lit mag dedicated to Jewish fiction; Judith, started by Alyssa Wald. Not only have I had a piece featured in Judith but I am enjoying the weekly offerings in poetry, fiction, non-fiction and children’s literature. Check it out if you haven’t already.
I have been a longtime subscriber to your lit mag news and thank you for all your efforts.
Leslie Lacin
I want to second the great work that Elissa Wald and the editorial team at Judith magazine are doing: https://judithmagazine.substack.com/. And I also want to thank Becky for this interview. I've been following Nora Gold for years (I was dazzled by her collection MARROW AND OTHER STORIES, which I first learned about at a Jewish literary conference) and am so pleased that my own work—a standalone excerpt from my (ahem) unpublished novel—is in her journal's archive.
JF doesn't pay, we discover at the end of the interview after Nora Gold's rant about how Palestinians are not victims of a brutal apartheid and European colonial settler state, but its submissions page doesn't say they don't pay. I have written to the magazine to insist that they be transparent about this. It is shoddy business for lit mags to solicit submissions without being clear what the business arrangement is, and I am really sick of the "of course we don't pay, we don't have any money" excuse, as if writers are supposed to *assume* that we work for free. To hell with that. All of it.