Resources & Links
This is a work in progress! The blessing and the curse of the interwebs is that there are so many resources available.
On Publishing
A couple documents to download. You can read them at the website where they were published but in case the links are broken, and in case you'd want to read them off-screen (they're lengthy), here they are for your convenience to download and print out.
All You Need to Know About Publishing in Online Lit Mags. Written by Chuck Augello for the Review Review.
What Editors Want by Lynne Barrett, also for the Review Review.
Why I No Longer Submit to Print-Only Journals. Mike Puican for H_NGM_N.
On Publishing
A couple documents to download. You can read them at the website where they were published but in case the links are broken, and in case you'd want to read them off-screen (they're lengthy), here they are for your convenience to download and print out.
All You Need to Know About Publishing in Online Lit Mags. Written by Chuck Augello for the Review Review.
What Editors Want by Lynne Barrett, also for the Review Review.
Why I No Longer Submit to Print-Only Journals. Mike Puican for H_NGM_N.
San Francisco Bay Area
Why There Are Words -- Literary reading series I founded and curate. Well-loved community, for good reason.
Litquake -- Also check out Litcrawl. Any wonder other cities are starting their own?
Marin Poetry Center -- Wonderful organization that does a lot for its members.
Headlands Center for the Arts -- And in such a beautiful locale!
Litseen -- Evan Karp keeps a great calendar with links to readings & lit events.
Sonoma County Literary Update -- Mega-site for just what it says.
Litquake -- Also check out Litcrawl. Any wonder other cities are starting their own?
Marin Poetry Center -- Wonderful organization that does a lot for its members.
Headlands Center for the Arts -- And in such a beautiful locale!
Litseen -- Evan Karp keeps a great calendar with links to readings & lit events.
Sonoma County Literary Update -- Mega-site for just what it says.
Everywhere
Council of Literary Magazines and Presses -- Many links to the many lit journals publishing today.
The Review Review -- Reviews of latest issues of lit journals and mags, and much more.
Prick of the Spindle -- Lit journal I love for which I serve as fiction editor and contribute book reviews.
Electric Literature Recommended Reading -- What it says. An editor serves up a story and tells you why to read it.
Poets and Writers -- Of course
Associated Writing Programs -- Ditto
New Pages -- A must-know. Reviews of lit journals, calls for submissions, much much more.
Verse Daily -- Because reading this daily is a gift. Because reading this daily can only make you a better artist.
Poetry Daily -- Exactly.
The Review Review -- Reviews of latest issues of lit journals and mags, and much more.
Prick of the Spindle -- Lit journal I love for which I serve as fiction editor and contribute book reviews.
Electric Literature Recommended Reading -- What it says. An editor serves up a story and tells you why to read it.
Poets and Writers -- Of course
Associated Writing Programs -- Ditto
New Pages -- A must-know. Reviews of lit journals, calls for submissions, much much more.
Verse Daily -- Because reading this daily is a gift. Because reading this daily can only make you a better artist.
Poetry Daily -- Exactly.
Also everywhere
Draft at the NYT -- Learn!
Draft: The Journal of Process -- I love to learn.
Structure and Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns -- It's amazing that this is free for us.
Large Hearted Boy -- Music & Literature & Writing & More (What will we ever do if he stops?)
Draft: The Journal of Process -- I love to learn.
Structure and Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns -- It's amazing that this is free for us.
Large Hearted Boy -- Music & Literature & Writing & More (What will we ever do if he stops?)
Something to read everyday
Friends of Writers blog -- This is the blog of the one & only Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers' blog. I'm proud to have graduated from this program.
Flash Fiction Specific Sites
Flash Fiction Magazine
Flash Fiction Resources Galore!
Flash Fiction Net --Stories, learning, more. A trove.
Flash Fiction Resources Galore!
Flash Fiction Net --Stories, learning, more. A trove.
Smart blogs and so-much-more-than-blogs
Further Than Your Headlights
Olga & Her Travels & More Than You'd Imagine
The Review Review
Beyond the Margins
Olga & Her Travels & More Than You'd Imagine
The Review Review
Beyond the Margins
Aids for Submitting
Writers
Please see some of the writers who've read at WTAW as one part of the answer.
Other & More
Just One Minute -- Local treasure & author of Buddha's Brain Rick Hanson (One minute's not enough)
Simple Timer -- Because this is a good daily practice, to get a few minutes in No Matter What. You can do i!
Turntable Kitchen -- Love this for a delicious-ly good idea because we writers are of many things.
Laurie Simmons -- Because, because. She is a queen.
Scrap -- Make stuff.
Simple Timer -- Because this is a good daily practice, to get a few minutes in No Matter What. You can do i!
Turntable Kitchen -- Love this for a delicious-ly good idea because we writers are of many things.
Laurie Simmons -- Because, because. She is a queen.
Scrap -- Make stuff.
Books
Books on craft. There are so many I treasure, but I'll only share a handful that I feel have offered me something that others haven't. And I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty. Please remember that isn't some sort of definitive list! In no particular order here are a few.
Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life. Nineteen award-winning writers--all expert teachers--share the secrets of creating compelling stories and novels. A combination handbook, writer's companion, and collection of spirited personal essays, the book is filled with specific examples, hard-won wisdom, and compassionate guidance for both the developing and the experienced fiction writer.
A Kite in the Wind. The latest of & some of the most erudite and inspirational fiction-writing essays.
Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, Peter Turchi. Amazing. And his latest, A Muse and A Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic.
Curious Attractions: Essays on Writing Fiction, Debra Sparks.
The Half Known World. Robert Boswell. A must-read is the titular essay, "The Half-Known World." I return to this book often when I try to articulate certain things to students--to myself.
Joan Silber's The Art of Time. Into its second printing now, this lively, lucid study looks at how various great writers have decided how much time a story needs to shape its meaning, and the art of convincing a reader that “three decades have passed in the five hours it took to read certain pages.”
The Mindful Writer, Dinty W. Moore. I dip into this regularly. This is a beautiful book that keeps me going.
The Portable Mentor, Priscilla Long. A wondrous, generous book.
Burning Down the House, Charles Baxter. Seminal. I especially like his essay on "Against Epiphanies."
A Life in Letters, Anton Chekhov (Letters of Anton Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov which you can find at Gutenberg.
architectures of possibility, after innovative fiction, by lance olsen with trevor dodge. Check out the amazing interviews on the website. (Update: Sept. 2014, the website is no longer available.)
Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life. Nineteen award-winning writers--all expert teachers--share the secrets of creating compelling stories and novels. A combination handbook, writer's companion, and collection of spirited personal essays, the book is filled with specific examples, hard-won wisdom, and compassionate guidance for both the developing and the experienced fiction writer.
A Kite in the Wind. The latest of & some of the most erudite and inspirational fiction-writing essays.
Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, Peter Turchi. Amazing. And his latest, A Muse and A Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic.
Curious Attractions: Essays on Writing Fiction, Debra Sparks.
The Half Known World. Robert Boswell. A must-read is the titular essay, "The Half-Known World." I return to this book often when I try to articulate certain things to students--to myself.
Joan Silber's The Art of Time. Into its second printing now, this lively, lucid study looks at how various great writers have decided how much time a story needs to shape its meaning, and the art of convincing a reader that “three decades have passed in the five hours it took to read certain pages.”
The Mindful Writer, Dinty W. Moore. I dip into this regularly. This is a beautiful book that keeps me going.
The Portable Mentor, Priscilla Long. A wondrous, generous book.
Burning Down the House, Charles Baxter. Seminal. I especially like his essay on "Against Epiphanies."
A Life in Letters, Anton Chekhov (Letters of Anton Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov which you can find at Gutenberg.
architectures of possibility, after innovative fiction, by lance olsen with trevor dodge. Check out the amazing interviews on the website. (Update: Sept. 2014, the website is no longer available.)
