Web
Resources for Creative Writers
General Creative Writing and Literature Resources
Atlantic Monthly's Poetry Pages: An online archive of poetry and articles on poetry published in present editions of the Atlantic Monthly.
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts: A full text compilation of creative writing by everyone from anonymous to Wordsworth.
The
Displaced Writer's Network: An introduction to the business of
creative writing featuring links to various web resources, a list of printed
resources, and one person's view on "the difficulties of 'writing jobs.'"
The
Internet Book Information Center: An enormous information center
for topics ranging from agents to books on tape to book reviews to newgroup
lists.
Mississippi Review's Link Page: The journal's link page boasts an gargantuan list of links to sites on literary magazines, computer news, computer shopping, digital imaging, fonts, hardware, shareware collections, software, media, news magazines and newspapers, brokers, funds, and scriptwritng.
The Literary Arts Webring: A webing connecting to sites which "[represent] the very best the Web has to offer in the art, craft, and business of fiction, poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction."
LitLine: A comprehensive site offering links to online and print journals, wiring organizations, and information about small presses.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: A hyper textual version of the entire Shakespearean canon with hyper links to footnotes
The U. S. Copyright Office Home page: Official answers to copyright questions of all kinds.
Poetry
Daily: An online anthology of the previously published poems of
established and beginning poets which features a poem of the day.
The
Voice of the Shuttle: A comprehensive site including links on topics
in the humanities ranging from classical literature to photography to society
and technology.
Web Del Sol: A "literary arts complex" which publishes original fiction and poetry online, offers publication and contest information, book reviews, and extensive links to literary sites.
The Writer's Internet Resource Guide: A pay-site featuring extensive online resources, such as chat rooms, links to writing associations, newsletters, "coaching and courses," online workshops, writing conferences, E-zines, and university writing programs.
ZuZu's
Petals Literary Resource Home Page: A literary resource featuring
hundreds of links to literary and creative sites as well as a discussions
news group and an online poetry and prose magazine, ZuZu's
Petals Quarterly Online.
Organizations
AWP: The Associated Writing Programs is a national organization organized "for the benefit of writers, writing programs, and teacher's of writing."
The Academy of American Poets: A national organization dedicated "to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry." Their site features a useful Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list, current news poetry, and information on poetry awards and scholarships.
The HTML Writer's Guild: "The world's largest international organization of Web authors," The HTML Writer's Guild was designed to assist members in HTML authoring, to provide contact information, and to develop web authoring standards and ethics.
Inkspot: An online community of writing associated with the Academy of American Poets featuring a free biweekly newsletter, a classified section, marketing information, and discussion forums.
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities: A site maintained by the University of Virginia in Charlottesville whose goal is to explore the intersection of Humanities and Technology by offering members technical consulting, support, and cultivating partnerships between people and institutions in the humanities and computers.
Screenwriters
and Playwrights Home Page: A site offering free trips, resources,
and chat for dramatic writers.
Writing Tools
Dictionary.com:
A site featuring links to various dictionaries in several languages.
Elements
of Style by William Strunk: Full text version of the quintessential
handbook for English style and grammar.
Essays on the Craft of Dramatic Writing: A site created and maintained by Bill Johnson, author of A Story is a Promise (1999), which features essays on the craft of writing for the stage, writing novels, and script opportunities.
Roget's Thesaurus: Free online Thesaraus.
The
Semantic Rhyming Dictionary: A site featuring software which finds
perfect rhymes, consonant rhymes, and synonyms for words.
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