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Writing, Reading and Publishing Personal Essays WritingNarrative Magazine: For fiction, poetry and nonfiction by contemporary masters
Tiny Lights: A website devoted to publishing personal essays online and promoting an annual contest as well as a print publication featuring personal essays.
The Writer's Lounge: A new and lively site dedicated to writers of nonfiction, essays and columns (includes an interview with Sheila Bender)
One World Journeys: This site offers a form of storytelling where you explore the world through the eyes of leading nature photographers and share their wilderness and cultural experiences through the voices of the accomplished writers who accompany them on expeditions.
Reading and Publishing Journals WritingBill Lamin, a teacher in England, is posting his grandfather's letters back home during WWI. He's posting them one by one, exactly 90 years to the day after each one was written.
Impassio Press’s life writing directory, a place to list journals of which you are in possession.
Impassio Press's links to information on and samples of published fragmentary writing.
Clubmemoir: A great site for those interested in memoirs or those writing them; it includes quality interviews with memoir authors and information about books.
The Center for Journal Therapy From their web site: "The Center for Journal Therapy is a gathering place for those who know the power of writing for growth and healing"
Reading and Publishing Poetry WritingPoetry Foundation Blog: Emily Warn, editor for PoetryFoundation.org gave me this link to their blog. She says, "As I told you, our bloggers feel very lonely because no one's commenting. Our data tells us many people are reading them, but are too shy or hurried to leave a response. If you can help us generate some hubbub, we would very much appreciate it." Poetry Magazine: Home to more than 1200 outstanding poets, a great many of them are well known in the world of poetry. There is a separate listing for Featured Poets, a complete listing of all published poets and an easy to use search page.
Writing Poetry from Personal Experience: An article on writing poetry from personal experience by Sheila Bender
Academy of American Poets: Features a Listening Booth with audio clips includes poems featured in their Poetry Exhibits and samples from the Academy's audiotape archives. Essays by famous poets, lists of awards, events and more.
Poetry 180: American Poet Laureate Billie Collins posts one poem a day for American high school students to read and listen to along with valuable instructions on how to read them.
The Atlantic Monthly Poetry Pages: Interviews with and audio recordings of famous poets. There are also wonderful pages for fiction and books in general. This is a truly significant web site.
National Association for Poetry Therapy (NAPT): From their web site: "The National Association for Poetry Therapy (NAPT) is an energetic, world-wide community of people who share a love for the use of language arts in growth and healing"
Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers: Poets who performed at the Dodge Poetry Festival read from their work. Site includes teacher's guide and information about the poets
Borzoi Reader | Poetry: From their website: "The members of the Knopf Publishing Group invite you to browse our collection of poetry and related books, learn more about our authors, and read excerpts from their works."
Kalliope: From their web site: "Kalliope is a poetry workshop based on exercises illustrating a variety of basic poetic theory and technique. Members of the workshop learn by critiquing each others exercises, as well as by writing and being critiqued. The workshop is a poetry course with lab. Each session, we post a Primer, discussing one aspect of poetic theory or technique in detail, with examples. Each Primer includes one or more Exercises designed to practice the techniques discussed in the Primer. The Primers are archived on our web page. Later Primers will be available only to members, but the beginning Primers are available to all."
Poetry & The Enneagram: From this web site: "There is so much buried in each of us that shows up symbolically, if only we know how to look for it--in fantasies, dreams, projections, artistic expressions. I'd like to show how powerful poetry can be to enable movement toward transformation."
Poetry.com: An online poetry community -- enter your poems; read and listen to the work of others. Contests and events are posted.
AmericanWriters II: Based on their useful Sunday television series, C-Span offers quality information online about selected 20th century American writers including biographical information, featured works, links to other pages about the writers and their times, and classroom activities for teachers using the literature.
Reading and Publishing Fiction Wired For Books: Wired For Books offers audio interviews with and readings and lectures by prominent fiction writers as well as poets, playwrites and non-fiction writers. From Ohio University.
Borzoi Reader | Fiction: Excerpts from new and future fiction.
AmericanWriters II: Based on their useful Sunday television series, C-Span offers quality information online about selected 20th century American writers including biographical information, featured works, links to other pages about the writers and their times, and classroom activities for teachers using the literature.
More References and Resources on the Craft and PublishingBackspace, The Writer’s Space: The site offers free articles of interest for writers by agents and authors available on the site as well as reviews of books about writing and much more.
The Boox Review: "Good reviews of good books."
Trigger Street: Launched by actor Kevin Spacey with sponsorship from Budweiser, the site aims to encourage the creative process of filmmaking and screenwriting by providing hands on, peer-to-peer, objective criticism and letting the material be judged on its own merit.
The Writer's Garret: "Our Mission is to put writers and audiences in touch with quality literature, each other, and the communities in which they live and write."
Word Journeys: Word Journeys offers services by writers, for writers. We focus on the writing, teaching and publicizing of the written word for journalists and authors, and present conferences and workshops throughout the U.S. Our newest feature is Bookstand, a publicity and promotional service for just-published authors.
iUniverse: A rich site for writers who want to publish and earn money from their work with calendars of author chats and info on e book publishing.
Authorlink: From their web site: "Where editors and agents buy and sell rights to unpublished and published manuscripts, and screenplays. Plus industry news, information, and marketing services for editors, literary agents, and readers."
Writer's Digest: From their web site: "Your online guide to getting published"
Poets & Writers: From their web site: "Poets & Writers (P&W) believes in literature's fundamental contribution to contemporary culture. For the past 29 years, P&W has focused on the source of literature, providing support and exposure to writers at all stages in their development. P&W assists authors in their search for career-related information, outlets for their work, opportunities for professional advancement and community with other writers."
Rose Dog: From their website: "where unpublished writers showcase their work and agents and publishers find new talent. Register and showcase your work free
Absolute Write: From their website: "If you are interested in freelance writing, screen writing, playwriting, writing novels, nonfiction, comic book writing, greeting cards, poetry, songwriting, or-- well, you get the idea-- you're in the right place. Thanks for visiting the one-stop web home for professional writers." Includes an interview with Sheila Bender.
The Society of Southwestern Authors: From their website: "The Society of Southwestern Authors is a nonprofit association of writers, and other publishing professionals, founded in 1972. Its objective is to conduct a program of activities designed to: * Promote mutually supportive friendship among writers. * Provide recognition of members' achievements. * Encourage and assist persons seeking to become published writers."
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