These resources are a constantly evolving list of interesting and helpful online writing resources, compiled by the Stonecoast community at-large. If you have a link you’d like to add, please post it in the comments and it will be included on this page.
Thanks to everyone for coming together to build this amazing resource.
AWARDS & PRIZES
COMMUNITIES, GROUPS, & ASSOCIATIONS
- Backspace
- The Internet Writing Journal
- The Internet Theatre Bookshop
- National Book Critics Circle
- New York City Writers Circle
- PEN American Center
CRAFT & ADVICE
GENERAL INTEREST
GRAPHICS
JOBS & EMPLOYMENT
LITERATURE & STUDY GUIDES
- APM: Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac
- Bruce Dobler’s Creative Nonfiction Compendium
- Quotidiana (archived essays)
- Victorian Prose Archive
- WSU – Literature Course Materials & Study Guides prepared by Professor Paul Brians
MOTIVATION & SUPPORT
NETWORKING & MARKETING
NONFICTION
E-MAGAZINES/ONLINE FICTION
PODCASTS
- The Bat Segundo Show, Interviews w/Authors
- I Should Be Writing — Mur Lafferty’s blog on podcasting & writing
- Odyssey Writers’ Workshop Podcasts — Lecture Excerpts from Guest Writers
- Writers on Writing Interviews
PODIBLE/AUDIBLE FICTION, POETRY, & NONFICTION
- Audible.com
- Bound Off
- Drabblecast
- Escape Pod
- Fiction by James Patrick Kelly
- The New Yorker Out Loud
- PodCastle
- PodLit: The Podcast of Creative Nonfiction
- The Poetic Voice: Houghton Mifflin Poetry Podcast
- Pseudopod
- The Sci Fi Traveling Road Show
- SFFaudio
- Sniplits
- Well Told Tales
PLAYWRIGHT OPPORTUNITIES
- American Association of Community Theatre
- En Avant Playwrights
- The Playwrights’ Center
- Playwriting Links & Resources
POETRY
POPULAR/GENRE FICTION
- Horror Writers Association
- Locus Magazine
- Mystery Writers of America
- Romance Writers of America
- Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association
- SFF Net
- The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Children’s Writers and Illustrators
PUBLISHING, SUBMISSIONS & THE BUSINESS OF WRITING
- Agent, Jennifer Jackson on Advances
- Agent Query
- Duotrope
- Jacqui Bennett Writers Bureau – UK
- The Publishing Spot
- Ralan.com: SF/F/H Writing Guidelines
- Writers Market.com
RESEARCH
- Answers.com
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
- Google Scholar
- JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive
- Metacritic: Compiled Book Reviews
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- One Look: A Dictionary Search Tool
- The Quotations Page
- Roget’s Thesaurus
- Wikipedia
- Word Reference: A Multi-Language Dictionary
SCREENWRITING
- Articles by Ela Thier, screenwriter and teacher
- Screenwriters from Ela Thier’s website
- Script-o-Rama
SCREENWRITING ORGANIZATIONS
WRITING MECHANICS & TOOLS:
- Behind the Name – Name Generator
- The Guide to Grammar & Writing
- Narratology: A Guide to the Theory of Narrative
- The Random Name Generator
- Virtual Salt: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
- Writing an MLA Bibliography
WRITERS RETREATS, COLONIES, ETC
- Alliance of Artists Communities
- Ragdale
- Vermont Studio Center
- Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
- Yaddo
- MacDowell Colony
WRITING PROGRAMS, WORKSHOPS, & CONFERENCES