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Ron­na Wineberg

Ron­na Wineberg is the author of On Bit­ter­sweet Place, her first nov­el, and a debut col­lec­tion, Sec­ond Lan­guage, which won the New Rivers Press Many Voic­es Project Lit­er­ary Com­pe­ti­tion, and was the run­ner-up for the 2006 Reform Judaism Prize for Jew­ish Fic­tion. She is the recip­i­ent of a schol­ar­ship from the Bread Loaf Writ­ers Con­fer­ence and fel­low­ships from the New York Foun­da­tion for the Arts and else­where. She is the found­ing fic­tion edi­tor of Belle­vue Lit­er­ary Review, and lives in New York.
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Essay

My Father’s Letters

Ron­na Wineberg
June 23, 2017
Essay

Research­ing and Writ­ing Short Stories

Ron­na Wineberg
June 19, 2017
Essay

Fam­i­ly His­to­ries and Fiction

Ear­li­er this week, Ron­na Wineberg wrote about say­ing Kad­dish for her moth­er and also shared a delet­ed scene from her first nov­el, On Bit­ter­sweet Place. She…
Ron­na Wineberg
December 26, 2014
Essay

The Lit­tle Shul

Ear­li­er this week, Ron­na Wineberg wrote about Chanukah and shared a delet­ed scene from her first nov­el, On Bit­ter­sweet Place. She will be blog­ging here all week for…
Ron­na Wineberg
December 23, 2014
Essay

Chanukah: A Repos­i­to­ry of Memory

Ron­na Wineberg is the author of On Bit­ter­sweet Place, her first nov­el, and a debut col­lec­tion, Sec­ond Lan­guage, which won the New Rivers Press Many Voic­es Project…
Ron­na Wineberg
December 22, 2014
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Ron­na Wineberg
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