Join the Glob­al Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Alliance for a con­ver­sa­tion with Manya Wilkin­son and Ayelet Tsabari on being sto­ry­tellers, their jour­neys into the writ­ing world, what inspires them, and how their approach­es to writ­ing dif­fer. It will dis­cuss their approach­es to writ­ing their books, how they chose these sto­ries to tell, and why telling Jew­ish sto­ries, and these spe­cif­ic Jew­ish sto­ries, are so impor­tant, right now and always.

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About the Glob­al Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Alliance

The Glob­al Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Alliance is an inter­na­tion­al col­lab­o­ra­tion that will pro­vide resources and com­mu­ni­ty for Jew­ish writ­ers, and those writ­ing books of Jew­ish inter­est. The Glob­al Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Alliance aims to encour­age more writ­ers to write Jew­ish con­tent and explore what that might be, as well as pro­vide annu­al­ly updat­ed resources to con­nect pro­fes­sion­als and writ­ers and cre­ate com­mu­ni­ty. The Glob­al Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Resource Cen­ter will also pro­vide infor­ma­tion on fund­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties, res­i­dences, and events for the Jew­ish writ­ing com­mu­ni­ty. If you know of any resources for the Jew­ish writ­ing com­mu­ni­ty and would like them includ­ed in our Resource Cen­ter, please sub­mit them here!

The Alliance aims to sup­port a glob­al ecosys­tem of Jew­ish arts and cul­ture, with a spe­cif­ic focus on the lit­er­ary arts, ensur­ing writ­ers have the resources they need to write Jew­ish books, that read­ers are aware of these works, and that Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ties and insti­tu­tions have the resources they need to cre­ate mean­ing­ful pro­grams and events around Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture. The Covid pan­dem­ic showed the ben­e­fits of con­nect­ing with peo­ple around the world and showed the pos­si­bil­i­ties of trans-Atlantic col­lab­o­ra­tions, some­thing upon which the Glob­al Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Alliance will expand.

The mem­bers of the GJLA are The Wingate Prize (UK), Jew­ish Book Coun­cil (US), JCC Asso­ci­a­tion of North Amer­i­ca (US and Cana­da) and Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Foun­da­tion (UK).