CW: Creative Writing Information Sources
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This web helps you explore Creative Writing information sources; here, you'll find organized and annotated links to Web sites about Creative Writing organizations, topics, books, and links. You can view and link to this information in a variety of ways, and your suggestions are welcome. Use the links at the top of this page to navigate and access this information
- Edited by: You can contact the editor of this information with your ideas and corrections; there are different formats for this information
- John December: editor of this information since 2001; has an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry)
- Suggestion?: please send a correction of any information you find here or your suggestion to john@december.com via email with the subject line info-cw
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- Writing (Topics), News, Refurbished format, NPF (Orgs), NPA (Orgs)
News
News about what's going on in the creative writing world
Orgs
Organizations involved in Creative Writing
- AAP: Academy of American Poets; extensive Web site on poetry, including essays, biographies, text of poems, RealAudio of poems; find local poetry resources on the National Poetry Map and calendar; information about the Academy and its programs
- AWP: Associated Writing Programs; aims 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; extensive listings of writer's programs, conferences
- NWA: National Writer's Association; community of writers
- PSA: Poetry Society of America; community of poets; chapbook contest, awards, events, Poetry in Motion
- NPF: National Poetry Foundation; publisher of books and journals
- NPA: National Poetry Association; information and news about poetry
- P&W: Poets & Writers; resources for creative writers; Poets & Writer's Magazine, directory of writers, and forum
- WGA: Writers Guild of America; represents writers in the motion picture, broadcast, cable and new media industries;
- CLMP: Council of Literary Magazines and Presses; serves independent publishers of fiction, poetry, and prose with news, grants, online services, advocacy, technical assistance, and publications
Topics
Areas of interest to creative writers
- Conferences: Guide to Writers Conferences and Workshops; online, searchable directory of upcoming writers conferences and workshops worldwide
- Writing.com: Online community for writers and readers; covers all ages and interests; place to store and display writing online; readers can search for stories
- Coffeehouse: Online writer's community
- Online books: Directory of online works; access to books that are freely readable over the Internet; includes works of fiction and non-fiction; founded and edited by John Mark Ockerbloom, a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania
- Random ideas: A tool for writer's block; an innovative online form that you can fill out
- Poetry Daily: A new poem every day
- Knopf Poetry Ctr: Online poetry; features works published by this famous publisher of poetry
Books
Buy books related to Creative writing
- Mags & Presses: The International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses; this directory identifies outlets for publishing poetry; I used this many years for submitting poems to small magazines; if you want to publish, get the latest edition of this book
- Writing Poems: Writing Poems, Sixth Edition, by Robert Wallace; excellent introduction to poetry; when I took an undergraduate course in poetry writing, I used this textbook; I also used it when I taught a creative writing class
- Poetics Encyclopedia: The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics; Edited by Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan; a massive enclopedia, covering poetry history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology; everything true and beautiful about poetry; all you need to know
Links
Access resource collections related to Creative Writing
- Writer's Center: a list of resources for writers; includes articles, links, resume listings, references available to writers, editors, publishers, literary organizations, employers, and others; part of The Writer's Center, Maryland's Literary Resource Center
- Write Brain: Software, books, links; for novelists, short story writers, screenwriters, playwrights
- Writers.net: Writing resources, news and discussion; for authors, writers, editors, publishers and agents
- PSA Links: Poetry Society of America links; resource collection from the PSA
- Poetry Super Highway: Directory of poetry resources; provides a wide range of links, feature poets; edited by Rick Lupert
- EPC: Electronic Poetry Ctr; a gateway to resources in electronic poetry and poetics at the University at Buffalo and on the Web at large
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