Links

These links are a constantly evolving list of interstesting 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

• The Man Booker Prize
• Pulitzer
• Pushcart Prize
• National Book
• Oscar

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:

• DeepGenre
• Turkey City Lexicon
• Writers on Writing

FICTION:

GENERAL INTEREST:

• Emerging Writers Network
• In The Times
• NewPages Lit Blog
• Writers Resource Center

GRAPHICS:

• My Fonts

JOBS & EMPLOYMENT:

• Editor & Publisher
• Journalism Jobs
• Publishers Marketplace

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:

• After The MFA
• Write Habit

NETWORKING & MARKETING:

• Mediabistro
• Practicing Writing
• Publisher’s Weekly
• Writer’s Digest Magazine
• Writers Weekly

NONFICTION:

• Memoirville

E-MAGAZINES/ONLINE FICTION:

• Fiction Factor

PODCASTING

• The Bat Segundo Show, Interviews w/Authors
• Escape Pod– What is podcasting?
• 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:

• Poets & Writers

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’s Digest
• Jacqui Bennett Writers Bureau – UK
• The Publishing Spot
• Ralan.com: SF/F/H Writing Guidelines
• Writers Market.com

RESEARCH

• Answers.com
• The Elements of Styleby William Strunk
• 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:

• CinewomenNY
• NYWIFT

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:

• AWP: The Association of Writers & Writing Programs
• Writing By Degrees
• Nonfiction Now
• Writers At Work
• A Room of Her Own
• Writers at the Beach