Other Sites to Explore

Here are a few fabulous literature and writing oriented websites to explore:

Poets & Writers   http://www.pw.org/
From their "About Us" page: "Poets & Writers, Inc., is the primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers. Founded in 1970, it is the nation's largest nonprofit literary organization serving poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers." 

There is information about grants and awards, literary magazines, small presses, MFA prgrams, coferences and residencies, writing news and foreums... Everything you wanted to know about the creative writing world has a link here.

The Writing Teacher   http://www.thewritingteacher.org/ 
From their "About This Blog" page: "If you're reading this, you’re probably interested in improving the writing of your students, and you're in the right place.Our goal is to increase the quality of our students’ writing skills by sharing knowledge among experts and practitioners.

We plan to share theory, practice, and research through our articles, feedback from our readers, and a numbers of web events in the planning as we launch. We will have teachers, writing assessment experts, academics, and others write about what they’ve tried, what works, how to implement ideas, and current theories on the subject of writing. We also plan to include lots of ideas regarding ways to get students writing more, since that’s the surest way to improve writing."

If you teach any kind of writing, you can find writing news, suggestions, and lessons here.

The Cuckleburr Times   http://www.cuckleburr.com/
From their "About Us" page: "The Cuckleburr Times is an online magazine created by writers for writers. Our goal is to seek out and publish articles by those wonderful but relatively unknown writers, poets and authors online that deserve more visibility. We produce a magazine with high quality, informative articles that writers no matter their niche, experience level or genre will find both useful and entertaining. We’re also glad to do book reviews and share book excerpts."

If you are looking for some off-the-beaten-path book reviews, to read new, interesting writing, or to submit some of your own work, this is the site for you.

Bookslut   http://www.bookslut.com/
From the "Contact" page: "Bookslut is a monthly web magazine and daily blog dedicated to those who love to read. We provide a constant supply of news, reviews, commentary, insight, and more than occasional opinions."

There are some great interviews, book reviews for all genres of books, and an interesting blog.

Working Writers Newsletter  http://workingwritersnewsletter.blogspot.com/
The Official Blog of FreelanceWriting.com  News, reviews and advice for freelance writers.

This blog offers links to other fantiastic writing sites, links for freelance writing jobs, and sites about software for writers.