WRITING & PUBLISHING RESOURCES
Send Out Your Words
Writing
Poets and Writers
If you’re serious about creative writing, you should be getting this magazine.
Subscription includes data bases of journals and publishers.
They also offer an email "The Time is Now" which suggests prompts for poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction.
http://www.pw.org/
Gotham Writer’s Workshop
NYC and online courses
Alcaro had an appalling experience with them, but a friend had an exciting and very useful one, a roll of the dice.
http://www.writingclasses.com/?gclid=Cj0KEQjw0POdBRCq3arGgYD05pMBEiQAmiUeTqUxD4ZP6JOYRKF1k0i9CsqJYR2gZG7F-uLM5BlNoCUaAmbS8P8HAQ
Writer’s Workshop
NYC and online courses.
Has a particular approach which might, or not, work for you.
An impressive advisory board, including Jennifer Egan and Robert Pinsky
http://www.writerstudio.com/pages/?gclid=Cj0KEQjw0POdBRCq3arGgYD05pMBEiQAmiUeTn_GMlInPTT-fNGECxVLyipdc6hCzddxWdq-MqJSFvsaArV78P8HAQ
Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review
Excellent literary review that offers four week long online classes.
Examples—magic realism, fantasy, great novel characters, hybrid, essay.
Alcaro took the essay one—excellent
http://thedoctortjeckleburgreview.com/
Email from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Excellent on their authors and new publications.
You can also learn about writing skills.
http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/subscribe/
Ploughshares
An inspiring eletter
http://blog.pshares.org/
Practicing Writing
Updates on writing and publishing
http://www.erikadreifus.com/blogs/practicing-writing/
New York Times Opinionator Essay
“Failure, Writing’s Constant Companion”
Encouraging and discouraging. Well, that’s just the way it is.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/failure-writings-constant-companion/?emc=edit_tnt_20140815&nlid=1327583&tntemail0=y
Medium
Available to those with Facebook and/or Twitter accounts.
Intelligent, interesting, thought provoking blog on which members post.
Monitored, so poorly written, silly, hate-filled and general junk does not appear.
You can sign up for a weekly or daily digest of editors' picks.
https://medium.com/@Medium/how-to-start-writing-on-medium-e18fe6a95ed3
Publishing
Poets and Writers
[deserves double billing]
http://www.pw.org/
The Review Review
Does what it says, reviews journals.
Has an excellent journal database and offers a weekly email.
http://www.thereviewreview.net/
Agent Query
Best site for finding an agent. Multiple options for searching.
http://www.agentquery.com/
SPD — Small Press Distribution
Deals with publishers that take queries or entire manuscripts directly from authors.
Offers a newsletter announcing recent publications.
Alcaro found her novel publisher through them.
http://www.spdbooks.org/
Writer Beware
Sponsored by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Alerts writers of ALL genres to scams, cons, rip offs.
Essential if you publish or plan to do so.
http://accrispin.blogspot.com/
See warning information on contracts
http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2015/01/two-red-flag-sentences-in-publishing.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AtLastWriterBewareBlogsAcCrispinAndVictoriaStraussRevealAll+%28Writer+Beware+Blogs%21%29
Preditors and Editors
The place to check for whether an agent, attorney, journal, contest, publisher is legitimate or to be avoided.
They don’t include all journals, publishers, etc. but it's worth investigating.
They don’t recommend anything that charges a fee
http://pred-ed.com/
BookBaby
eBook publisher.
Recently published an eBook of three stories by Salinger.
Has some interesting guides that could be useful to all writers
http://www.bookbaby.com/?utm_expid=34479331-11.Y82RpyPLRKaABPaQjsr5OA.0
Funds for Writers
Includes weekly email announcing publishing possibilities
http://www.fundsforwriters.com/
Literary Starter Kit
A fine article on literary journals with listing of the well-established, high quality ones.
Particularly excellent for new writers.
Your Lit Mag Starter Kit, Part 1: Hearty, High-Quality, Aesthetically Traditional Lit Mags
Please send resources you find useful.
Thanks.
Send Out Your Words
Writing
Poets and Writers
If you’re serious about creative writing, you should be getting this magazine.
Subscription includes data bases of journals and publishers.
They also offer an email "The Time is Now" which suggests prompts for poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction.
http://www.pw.org/
Gotham Writer’s Workshop
NYC and online courses
Alcaro had an appalling experience with them, but a friend had an exciting and very useful one, a roll of the dice.
http://www.writingclasses.com/?gclid=Cj0KEQjw0POdBRCq3arGgYD05pMBEiQAmiUeTqUxD4ZP6JOYRKF1k0i9CsqJYR2gZG7F-uLM5BlNoCUaAmbS8P8HAQ
Writer’s Workshop
NYC and online courses.
Has a particular approach which might, or not, work for you.
An impressive advisory board, including Jennifer Egan and Robert Pinsky
http://www.writerstudio.com/pages/?gclid=Cj0KEQjw0POdBRCq3arGgYD05pMBEiQAmiUeTn_GMlInPTT-fNGECxVLyipdc6hCzddxWdq-MqJSFvsaArV78P8HAQ
Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review
Excellent literary review that offers four week long online classes.
Examples—magic realism, fantasy, great novel characters, hybrid, essay.
Alcaro took the essay one—excellent
http://thedoctortjeckleburgreview.com/
Email from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Excellent on their authors and new publications.
You can also learn about writing skills.
http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/subscribe/
Ploughshares
An inspiring eletter
http://blog.pshares.org/
Practicing Writing
Updates on writing and publishing
http://www.erikadreifus.com/blogs/practicing-writing/
New York Times Opinionator Essay
“Failure, Writing’s Constant Companion”
Encouraging and discouraging. Well, that’s just the way it is.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/failure-writings-constant-companion/?emc=edit_tnt_20140815&nlid=1327583&tntemail0=y
Medium
Available to those with Facebook and/or Twitter accounts.
Intelligent, interesting, thought provoking blog on which members post.
Monitored, so poorly written, silly, hate-filled and general junk does not appear.
You can sign up for a weekly or daily digest of editors' picks.
https://medium.com/@Medium/how-to-start-writing-on-medium-e18fe6a95ed3
Publishing
Poets and Writers
[deserves double billing]
http://www.pw.org/
The Review Review
Does what it says, reviews journals.
Has an excellent journal database and offers a weekly email.
http://www.thereviewreview.net/
Agent Query
Best site for finding an agent. Multiple options for searching.
http://www.agentquery.com/
SPD — Small Press Distribution
Deals with publishers that take queries or entire manuscripts directly from authors.
Offers a newsletter announcing recent publications.
Alcaro found her novel publisher through them.
http://www.spdbooks.org/
Writer Beware
Sponsored by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Alerts writers of ALL genres to scams, cons, rip offs.
Essential if you publish or plan to do so.
http://accrispin.blogspot.com/
See warning information on contracts
http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2015/01/two-red-flag-sentences-in-publishing.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AtLastWriterBewareBlogsAcCrispinAndVictoriaStraussRevealAll+%28Writer+Beware+Blogs%21%29
Preditors and Editors
The place to check for whether an agent, attorney, journal, contest, publisher is legitimate or to be avoided.
They don’t include all journals, publishers, etc. but it's worth investigating.
They don’t recommend anything that charges a fee
http://pred-ed.com/
BookBaby
eBook publisher.
Recently published an eBook of three stories by Salinger.
Has some interesting guides that could be useful to all writers
http://www.bookbaby.com/?utm_expid=34479331-11.Y82RpyPLRKaABPaQjsr5OA.0
Funds for Writers
Includes weekly email announcing publishing possibilities
http://www.fundsforwriters.com/
Literary Starter Kit
A fine article on literary journals with listing of the well-established, high quality ones.
Particularly excellent for new writers.
Your Lit Mag Starter Kit, Part 1: Hearty, High-Quality, Aesthetically Traditional Lit Mags
Please send resources you find useful.
Thanks.
