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Writers Resources

• Brian Dana Akers - Learn to Write

• The Eclectic Writer

• For Writers Only

• The Info Service Writing Index

• NovelAdvice - A CyberJournal For Writers

• Poets & Writers - Literary Links

• Writer's Resource- Provides market listings and reviews for writers of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Also Success Stories, Rants and Raves, and a new Featured Market every month. 
  

• Gila Queen's Guide to Markets - Markets for authors, artists, and illustrators are getting harder to find as we begin the new Millennium.  Fortunately, there's a market guide that relentlessly pursues these markets.

• The Write Page

• Writers Write  

• Writers Writing: The Fiction Writer's Journal - Visit Emily Hanlon's "Station Stops." There are many and diverse articles and exercises, including "Messages from the Muse" as well as news about writing retreats, writers conferences and workshops. 
  

• AuthorsDen.com
  Where authors and readers come together!
  

• Writers Weekly  The highest circulation freelance writing ezine in the world.  Check out their Warnings and Whispers column or subscribe free.
  

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Writing Related Internet Sites

• Writing-World.com - offers more than 250 articles on just about every aspect of writing plus over 500 links to other resources, market information, contest listings, and more.

• Zoetrope: All-Story is a quarterly literary publication founded by Francis Ford Coppola in 1997 to explore the intersection of story and art, fiction and film.

• Skyline Magazine

Other Literary Links Of Interest

• Great Writers and Poets -Find the home page of your favorite author or poet here.

• World Wide Magazines

• Winning Writers - Hosts Poetry Contest Insider, a newsletter designed to help poets win quality contests. Also sponsors two annual poetry contests.

Writer's Tools  

• Research-It! - Your one-stop reference desk

• On-Line English Grammar

• Strunk, William. 1918. The Elements of Style

• Writer's Web

• FREE Internet Encyclopedia - Micro Reference

• Chicago Manual of Style Q&A

• Random Name Generator

• About Isabel Gallery - Fine Art Reproduction Oil Painting
     

 Historical Research

• HISTORICAL TEXT ARCHIVE
   

Medieval

• The Online Medieval and Classical Library 

• Labyrinth Home Page

• DScriptorium Home Page - devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts

 Elizabethan

• A Compendium Of Common Knowledge -A rich resource of the social history of 16th Century Europe with a little edge of Tudor. A comprehensive and detailed site! 
   

Religion and Philosophy

• Myths and Legends - An extensive site with pages and pages of information on ancient civilizations including Hittite/Hurrian Mythology, Sumerian, Assyro-Babylonian and others. 

• Earth Wisdom Home Page - A Guide to the Sacred Earth Traditions

Medical Research

• On-line Medical Dictionary - includes acronyms, jargon, theory, conventions, standards, institutions, projects, eponyms, history, and "anything to do with medicine or science."

General Research/Reference

• Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet

• Bartleby.com - The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, FREE of charge.

• Encylopedia Britannica

• The Internet's Best Electronic Reference Desk

• The Internet Public Library

• writers.net -- Research Central

Other Cool Research Sites

• CIA Publications - The CIA's World Factbook

• Allexperts.com - A collection of links to experts who have volunteered to answer your questions.

Publishers

Print Publishers 

• Lonely Blue Coyote's Publisher Submission Guidelines - A growing list of publishers that includes their submissions guidelines. 

• Publishers' Catalogues Home Page - Publishers' web site links sorted alphabetically by country and with many specifying submissions guidelines.

• LazerBooks.com - Custom Bookpublishing with Ultra-Short Print Runs. Offers comprehensive services for those interested in self-publishing.

• American Book Publishing, we will design, print, publicize and distribute your book! - Helps authors print, distribute and sell their books. They accept and publish unsolicited manuscripts, with titles available worldwide and in a number of formats.

Electronic Publishers

• Publishing Online.com - An exciting new idea in literature - electronic book publishing. They offer digital books that you can purchase and download directly to your computer or e-book instantly. PublishingOnline.com is the Internet's premier publishing house.

• Word Wrangler Publishing - The E-book Nook - Word Wrangler Publishing offers a free quality means of publishing and selling your e-books. They also feature original e-books available as attached files and published in HTML format. No special reader is required and anyone with a web browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, Netscape, AOL) can read them. This site offers sample passages from all books published.

• Bookmice.com - Bookmice.com is committed to providing the highest quality service and selection of electronic books in the Internet marketplace. The company offers downloadable books online at a lower price than traditional booksellers as well as offering advertising space on its website along with hand-held reading devices.

Literary Agents

• Internet Directory of Literary Agents - Browse Entries - Browse by Name, Agency, State, Country and Specialization 

• Screenwriting for screenwriters - Writers Guild of America  - The Writers Guild Of America Agents and Agencies

        Author Showcase Sites 

The following websites focus on showcasing the work of authors in search of an agent or publisher.

• St Rose Press  - A non-profit publisher/service that extends a hand to unpublished writers in all genres with an emphasis on Romance. 

• Authorlink! About Writers, Writing, Editors, Literary Agents: Main Index - Check them out! Authorlink, the award-winning news/information/marketing service for editors, agents and writers. And the new Authorlink Press, trade paperback originals and reprints.
  

• Author's Den where authors and readers come together.  Monthly contests.

        Writer's Conferences 2004

• Writing for Love, Money & Immortality
  The New Letters Weekend Writers Conference
  June 4 - 6, 2004

• The 25th Annual Mark Twain Creative Writing Workshop
  3 hours a day, 3 weeks, 3 credit hours
  June 7 - 25, 2004

• Odyssey Summer Writing Workshop 2004 Session

  New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin has been selected as the Writer-in-Residence at Odyssey’s summer 2004 session. Martin, author of numerous novels including the highly praised series A Song of Ice and Fire, has won a Bram Stoker Award, a World Fantasy Award, two Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, and six Locus Awards.

  Past lecturers include Harlan Ellison, Jane Yolen, Terry Brooks, Ben Bova, Ellen Datlow, Donald Maass, and Dan Simmons.

  Odyssey, founded nine years ago to provide up-and-coming genre writers the guidance and support necessary to become professionals, is the only program of its kind run by an editor. Jeanne Cavelos, Odyssey’s founder and director, is a bestselling author and former senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing, where she won the World Fantasy Award for her work. The six-week workshop, held on the campus of Southern New Hampshire University from June 14-July 23, 2004, combines an intensive learning and writing experience with in-depth feedback on students’ manuscripts. Students must apply by April 15, 2004.

  Odyssey’s featured 2004 guest lecturers are award-winning authors Catherine Asaro, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, and Barry B. Longyear; bestseller Bob Mayer; and award-winning editor/writer Gardner Dozois. Lecturers will share their own unique perspectives and critique student manuscripts.

  Tuition is $1500, and housing in on-campus townhouses runs $397.50 for the six weeks. Students have the option of receiving college credit. Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor and graduate of the program, Odyssey will be offering three Gandalf Grant scholarships to the most promising writers of the class of 2004 in the amounts of $1250, $500, and $250.

  For more information and an application, go to the Web site or Email us (include a regular mailing address).   You may also send a SASE to Odyssey, 20 Levesque Lane, Box G, Mount Vernon, NH 03057. Phone/fax (603)673-6234.

For comprehensive Conference dates go to
Writer's Digest

Writers Associations

• American Crime Writers League—18645 SW Farmington Rd., #255, Aloha OR 97007. For published crime writers. Publishes bimonthly newsletter, The BULLETin.
• Crime Writers of Canada—See Web site. Presents the Arthur Ellis awards. Publishes quarterly newsletter, Fingerprints. [E-mail].
• Mystery Writers of America—17 E. 47th St., 6th Floor, NY , NY 10017-1920. Gives the Edgar Allan Poe awards at an annual banquet. Publishes monthly newsletter, The Third Degree. [E-mail].
• Private Eye Writers of America—4342H Forest Deville Dr., Saint Louis MO 63129-1833. Gives Shamus awards. Publishes quarterly newsletter, Reflections in a Private Eye. [E-mail].
• RWA Mystery/Suspense Chapter—12004 Smoketree Rd., Potomac MD 20854. Publishes bimonthly newsletter, The Kiss of Death. [].
• Sisters in Crime—PO Box 442124, Lawrence KS 66044-8933. Publishes quarterly newsletter, InSinC. [E-mail].
• Romance Writers Of America
• Science Fiction And Fantasy Writers Of America
• Horror Writers Association
• Western Writers Of America

   

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