Below is a comprehensive list of links and files started by Alum, Jody Forrester. If you would like to add a link, send an e-mail to: submissionstwohawks@yahoo.com. Please add the keyword Links in the subject line.
LINKS:
- Family Los Angeles: An art and book store on Fairfax with salon-type events.
- Amy Bender: Los Angeles writer and teacher, Amy Bender, with a calendar of events beyond her readings and a prompt-a-month.
- 826LA: “826LA is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.” They have awesome fund raising events – check their calendar periodically.
- Writer’s Resource Center: Writing Jobs and additional links.
- Write Habit: “Contains commented links to literary journals that regularly publish emerging writers and sometimes publish new writers (emerging meaning writers who have not yet published a book, and new meaning writers who have not yet published in literary journals).”
- Winning Writers: “Winning Writers finds and creates resources for poets and writers.”
- Wazee Journal: Online journal – for “new independent writing.”
- Swink Magazine: Print and online magazine, accepting submissions.
- Queerwriters.com: “Online resources for GLBT writers and editors.”
- Publishers Weekly: - print and online.
- Poets and Writers Magazine: Print magazine with online writers resources – re. grants, awards and funding.
- PEN American Center: “An association of writers working to advance literature, defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship.”
- Open City: A print journal accepting poetry and prose submissions.
- Anderbo: Online Short-Story Journal.
- Failbetter: Online Literary Quarterly. Failbetter.com is an online quarterly that publishes original works of fiction, poetry and art. They take submissions.
- Off Course – a Literary Journey: “A journal for poetry, criticism, reviews, stories & essays.” They take submissions.
- New Millennium Writings: Online literary journal – takes submissions and has contests.
- Narrative Glossary: Trying to remember the difference between “direct” and “indirect” characterization? This site is a glossary of narrative terminology as well as links to more narrative examples and sites. It’s meant for journalism students, but transposes easily.
- Books about writing: Compilation of books about writing from craft to publishing.
- Missouri Review: Literary print magazine – accepts submissions.
- Quarterly Conversation: Literary reviews; submissions accepted.
- The Literary Encyclopedia: “We currently offer some 3850 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics, and add about 6-800 new articles a year. We also provide bibliographical lists of nearly 20,000 works and advanced software tools.”
- Literal Latte: Online literary magazine; they accept submissions.
- Book Reporter: For current reviews, author interviews, bibliography, and general publishing news.
- Glimmer Train: This print journal accepts submissions and holds frequent competitions. They also send out the best rejection letter in town! It is primarily instructional and tells the writer what editors are looking for in a new story.
- Flavorpill LA: “Flavorpill is a weekly email magazine covering a hand-picked selection of cultural events.”, including local readings.
- Fiction Attic: “fiction attic – the journal of elegant wit.”
- Erika Dreifus: Erika Dreifus’s blog lists editorial and publishing jobs, as they occur, and lots more in the world of short story writing and publishing.
- Bookslut: Bookslut comes out of Chicago and publishes online monthly. Features interviews, reviews and poetry.
- Book Sense: A family of independent booksellers – locate by zipcode.
EDITORIAL:[Jody Forrester]: Please use independent booksellers. Likely, thats where most of your books will be selling. Many have web services that are more than competitive with Amazon.com and are not owned by stockholders. - The Association of Writers and Writing Associations: “AWP was founded in 1967 to support the growing presence of literary writers in higher education. The mission of The Association of Writers & Writing Programs is to foster literary talent and achievement, to advance the art of writing as essential to a good education, and to serve the makers, teachers, students, and readers of contemporary writing.”
- Beatrice.com: Great interviews with authors from 1996 to 2002 and interviewer’s blog.
- Arts & Letters Daily: An online newsletter with links to currently published essays, reviews, criticism and much more.
- Lit Magazine Central: A comprehensive source for literary magazines.
- LA Writers Group: An online and offline writers group based in Los Angeles.
- Lambda Literary Foundation: Celebrating the LGBT literature.
- Write Girl: Empowering girls through mentorship and self-expression.
- Writers Bloc Presents: A list of literary Events in the Los Angeles area.
- Blood and Ink: The ins and outs of writing, painting, poetry, prose, film and drinking.
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