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Blog Posts & Hidden Candles Discussion Guide

July 13, 2018 by Daniella Levy Leave a Comment

Hey there! I have a few things to share with you: Guest Post on Researching a Novel Last week, fellow author Hannah Ross hosted a guest post from me on her blog, Flight of Fantasy: How to Research Your Novel from the Comfort of Your Home, with Daniella Levy. Did you know that I did […]

Filed Under: By Light of Hidden Candles, Letters to Josep, News Tagged With: by light of hidden candles, letters to josep, news

My Short Story ‘Cockatoo Tears’ Published in Qu Literary Magazine

May 22, 2018 by Daniella Levy 3 Comments

Moluccan Cockatoo, photo courtesy of OpenCage.info

Greetings all! I’m very pleased to announce that my short story, Cockatoo Tears, was published in the Spring 2018 edition of Qu Literary Magazine, a contemporary journal from Queens University of Charlotte. Here’s the opening section: “Mom. We have to save the rainforests.” These were the seven words with which my seven-year-old greeted me as she […]

Filed Under: Inspirations, Short Fiction Tagged With: environmentalism, rainforest, short fiction, short story

Video of Maqlooba Ceremony from Scarf Sisters!

May 17, 2018 by Daniella Levy Leave a Comment

A few months ago I shared a short story of mine, Scarf Sisters, about an Israeli settler who bonds with a Palestinian woman over their identical headscarves. When I read the story to an audience in Jerusalem, I was asked by several people it was based on a true story. It wasn’t, but there were elements […]

Filed Under: Inspirations, Life in Israel, Short Fiction Tagged With: Israel, short fiction, short story

My Poems ‘Ghosts’ and ‘Translucent’ Published in Love Like Salt

March 14, 2018 by Daniella Levy Leave a Comment

Love Like Salt is a poetry anthology recently published by Like This Press and edited by Amy Burne, an English student at Manchester Metropolitan University. In her call for submissions, she wrote that the aim of the collection is “to reveal the fragility of human emotions whilst exploring the inevitable routines and relationships we build today, […]

Filed Under: News, Poetry Tagged With: poetry

Scarf Sisters – Short Story

January 24, 2018 by Daniella Levy Leave a Comment

Last week, I participated in a launch event for arc 25, literary journal of the Israel Association of Writers in English. Around 100 people turned up–a lot more than expected!–and it was awesome to meet the faces behind the wonderful poetry and prose that appears in the journal. I had a great time! You can […]

Filed Under: Life in Israel, Short Fiction Tagged With: short fiction, short story

My Poem ‘Stardust’ Published by Poetica & More News

January 10, 2018 by Daniella Levy Leave a Comment

Right, so first of all, my poem Stardust was just published in the 2017 Mizmor L’David Anthology by Poetica Publishing. You can read or download the full anthology as a PDF on the Poetica website here; Stardust appears on page 51. An excerpt: i don’t have to be the brightest thread in the carpet or the […]

Filed Under: News, Poetry, Short Fiction Tagged With: news, poetry, publishing, short fiction

My Poem “From the Graves of My Ancestors” Published in Stonecoast Review

December 27, 2017 by Daniella Levy Leave a Comment

I’m very pleased to tell you that my poem, From the Graves of My Ancestors, was published this month in the Stonecoast Review, a student-run literary journal based in Maine. The poem was inspired by a lecture by Dominique Tomasov, an activist and researcher who contacted me after stumbling across my article on antisemitism in Spain […]

Filed Under: News, Poetry Tagged With: news, poetry

The Lost Couscous Chapters (Deleted Scenes)

December 25, 2017 by Daniella Levy Leave a Comment

Today I’d like to share a few sections that didn’t make the final cut in By Light of Hidden Candles. Food and drink are an important symbol in the book, signifying both heritage and tradition (as with traditional foods mentioned and the wine Abraham provides to the conversos), and nurturing and connection (the porridge Tomás cooks […]

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Hidden Candles Selected as #RBRT Award Finalist & Other Exciting News!

December 11, 2017 by Daniella Levy 2 Comments

Greetings, my lovely friends! I have a few exciting things to tell you: #RBRT Award Nomination! By Light of Hidden Candles received positive reviews from two reviewers on Rosie’s Book Review Team (Barb Taub and Olga Núñez Miret), and it was just selected as a finalist for the RBRT Awards in the category of Romance! […]

Filed Under: Books, By Light of Hidden Candles, News Tagged With: by light of hidden candles, disengagement, interfaith, news

The Real-Life Experiences that Influenced By Light of Hidden Candles

December 4, 2017 by Daniella Levy 2 Comments

One of the questions I was asked during the FB Live session a few weeks ago was, “How much of the book is autobiographical?” Because of the time constraints, I answered broadly: “Ahhh… this is a complicated question to ask a fiction writer, because, you know… what does autobiographical mean? None of the… well, most of the […]

Filed Under: By Light of Hidden Candles, Inspirations Tagged With: barcelona, by light of hidden candles, interfaith, intermarriage, letters to josep

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