Resources

Potential Publication Venues

Jewish Literary Presses

• Ayin Press
• Ben Yehuda Press
• Harbor Review (The Jewish Women’s Poetry Prize is for an online micro-chapbook)
• Poetica Publishing
• White Goat Press (The Yiddish Book Center’s imprint, publishes newly translated work in all genres, including poetry)

Judaism-Focused Publications

• ALTE: Growing Old Together (an arm of Jewish Currents)
• arc (from the Israel Association of Writers in English)
• CCAR Press—The Jewish Quarterly
• Gashmius: Toward a Progressive neo-Hasidism
• Halah (journal of the literary group Jerusalism)
• Ilanot Review
• In Geveb (open to translations from Yiddish texts)
• Jewish Currents
• Jewish Journal
• Jewish Quarterly
• The Jewish Writing Project
• Lilith Magazine
• Minyan Magazine
• Moment Magazine
• Paper Brigade (journal of the Jewish Book Council)
• Poetica Magazine
• Prism: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators
• Ritualwell (looking for poems, rituals, prayers, etc.)
• Tiferet
• Tikkun
• Verklempt (literature & visual art; created by Havurah)

Publications Looking for Spiritual/Religious Writing

• Amethyst Review
• EcoTheo Review
• Harvard Divinity Bulletin
• Image
• Journal Feminist Studies in Religion
• Parabola
• Pensive Journal
• Psaltery & Lyre
• Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith
• Ruminate
• Soul-Lit: A Journal of Spiritual Poetry
• The Sun

General Interest Publication Open to Spiritual/Religious Poems

• Beloit Poetry Journal
• Impossible Archetype
• Kenyon Review
• Kosmos Journal
• storySouth
• 32 Poems
• Whale Road Review

Jewish Literary Organizations

• Havurah (Jewish arts collective, based in NYC)
• IAWE (Israel Association for Writers in English)
• Indian Jewish Heritage Center (Israel-based organization that often hosts online literary events)
• Jewish Book Council
• Jewish Women’s Archive: Book Club
• Kolture: Community of Jewish Arts & Culture
• Ritualwell (writing classes in multiple genres & literary events)
• Voices Israel (Israeli-based organization for poets from anywhere, mainly but not necessarily Jewish, writing in English)
• Yiddish Book Center (a tremendous archive of Yiddish texts & many educational offerings including a translation fellowship)

Jewish Literary Festivals & Reading Series

(bold listings have online remote offerings)

Northeast

• Jewish Arts Collaborative (based near Boston, with events in literature and the arts)
• Jewish Poetry Series—JCC Buffalo (virtual readings only)
• JCC Lane Dworkin Rochester Jewish Book Festival (Rochester, NY; November)
• New England Jewish Poetry Festival (Sunday, February 5, 2023)
• New York Jewish Book Festival (Museum of Jewish Heritage, NY, NY; December)

Midwest

• Ann Arbor Jewish Book Festival (JCC Ann Arbor, MI; November)
• Detroit Jewish Book Fair (JCC of Metropolitan Detroit, MI; November)
• Cleveland Jewish Book Festival (Mandel JCC, Cleveland, OH; November)
• St. Louis Jewish Book Festival (St. Louis, MO; November)

Southeast

• Berrin Family Jewish Book Family (Alper JCC, Miami, FL; October-April)
• Greater Naples Jewish Book Festival (Naples, FL; November-March)
• Book Festival of the Marcus JCC of Atlanta (Dunwoody, GA; November) 
• Lee & Bernard Jaffe Family Jewish Book Festival (Virginia Beach, VA; November-December)
• Nashville Jewish Book Series (Gordon JCC, Nashville, TN)

Southwest

• Ann and Stephen Kaufman Jewish Books & Arts Festival (Evelyn Rubenstein JCC, Houston, TX; October-November)
• Dallas Jewish BookFest (Aaron Family JCC, Dallas, TX; July-April)

West

• Jewish Book Festival (Jewish Federation of the Greater San Gabriel & Pomona Valleys, Monrovia, CA; October-December)

International

• Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival (Vancouver, BC; February)
• London International Literacy Festival’s Jewish Book Week (London, England; February-March)