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Getting published: Advice
Bloomsbury guide for writers
Practical stuff - preparing and submitting your manuscript - and useful information, such as a directory of agents. There's also comment from an unpublished author and a literary agent.The Internet Writing Workshop
The 'oldest continuous writers' group on the net', having begun life as an SF writers' club 15 years ago, this site hosts a number of writing workshops - email clubs for the discussion of works in progress. "The key word is? Workshop", and commitment is expected. Local Writer's Workshop
"Think of us as a cross between your friendly neighborhood coffee shop, complete with braided rag rugs, overstuffed armchairs, floor cushions, and stacks of books by all of your favorite authors - and a demanding, time-consuming, occasionally-persnickety graduate-level writing workshop." You really have to prove yourself to join this gang, critiquing others' works for nine weeks before you may submit your own for critique. Hints for writers
Writer and creative writing teacher Greg Garrett has compiled these homely pages full of advice for budding writers. With sections on technique, exercises and getting published, this is a good place to get started. If you're in a hurry, head straight for the Top Ten Quik-Hints - all highly sensible, though it's hard to trust a writer who abuses the alphabet like that. Pure Fiction
Lots of features on producing bestselling fiction, from erotica to crime, with an "electronic slushpile" on which to showcase your work. Writing.org
Freelance writer Durant Imboden - novelist, travel writer, About.com contributor, ex-Playboy editor and erstwhile literary agent - offers articles on how to break into the writing business (and wears a very fetching sailor's cap). With sensible advice about technique, agents and how to get published, this will help you avoid the "scam artists". Plus lots of links and a good section on travel writing. Getting published: Outlets
Cyberpages Poems
"'Here are the poems the wonderful Internet community have submitted for your pleasure," says the introduction. With no editorial control whatsoever (and a strange obsession with birthsigns), here is a home for all that the net can offer. Add your own work, comment on what's there or just stroll round the menagerie. Duct Tape Press
Not-for-profit ezine that accepts email submissions of short prose, poetry, drama... "our only criteria [sic] is quality". Run by a couple of Texas students, this self-styled "stickiest zine on the web" is not afraid of the "challenging", the "unconventional" - or of bodily fluids... Interactive Poetry Page
Add a line, comment on poems in progress, or just read the results of all that mutual effort. With surreal, haiku, gothic and teen sections, this site will bring out your inner bard. Recursive Angel
"An excursion into the poetics of the mind." This stylish ezine accepts poetry and short prose submissions by email - and even pays a small fee. "Extra consideration" is given to work that exploits the possibilities of the medium.
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