Yona Zeldis McDonough
A new mother dives headlong into a parallel world to find her missing son in The Possibilities (Random House, $27), a quasi-sci-fi novel that sets out to examine and explore… Read more »
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Tag: fiction
Talking to Anne Burt, Author of “The Dig”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Anne Burt talks to Lilith about her debut novel, The Dig, and her character’s struggle to reconcile her own ambitions while remaining loyal to her beloved, idealistic brother.
Idra Novey Talks Art, Appalachia, Antisemitism
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Novelist Idra Novey talks to Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about the continuing mystery of the people we love most, and what can be built from what others have discarded.
Enter Lilith’s Annual Fiction Contest
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Calling all gifted fiction writers! Updated Deadline: February 1, 2023
A Novel of Matchmaking, Then and Now
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Lynda Cohen Loigman: “As the story came together, I poured my frustration for all young women into its pages”
A Girl During the War: A Story of Courage and Grit
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Anita Abriel, the author of novels set during World War II, on why she endows her young protagonists with such courage and grit.
Introducing “Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine”
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Lilith is thrilled to share with you the forthcoming release of Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine (October 6, 2022; Brandeis University Press), edited by Susan Weidman Schneider and Yona Zeldis McDonough.
Continuing the Story of Ivanhoe’s Rebecca
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A Novel About a Jewish female doctor. In the Middle Ages.
Fiction: “Worms”
Simona Zaretsky
Spider crawls across the rim of pot. I flick it into the rain pounding down. Search the flowerbeds for squirming bodies, run my fingers gently through wet earth waiting for their silky touch.
Fiction: Vocabulary for Fruit
Maya Afilalo
“I wanted to tell her about the look on my father’s face when I refused to accompany him to the Kol Nidre service…”