Writers Resources

Links to entertainment news, film festivals, screenwriting competitions, and software.

Behind the walls at Deep Space Nine and Voyager Pitches. Real insight into how the pitch process works.

Screenwriting tricks, tips, information and resources for screenwriters starting out.

Article about screenwriting from Laura Miller.

A site full of tricks and tips to help the film script writer.

News about movie scripts from a European perspective, focusing on releases, quotes and prizes.

Screenwriting related posts.

An online service that allows entry of text or a website. Displays readability analysis, including reading level, sentence length and word counts.

Freeware for novel writers who use Microsoft Word. Allows for the management and organization of chapters within a book with one doc file per chapter.

Calculates the frequency of words, phrases and substrings in any document or web-page, showing results in tables with sorting, filtering and highlighting.

A tool to check word count, paragraph count and keyword density. Also allows the user to manipulate written text such as changing to lowercase or uppercase.

Detailed assistance on APA formatting including many examples and exercises. By David S. Baker and Lynn Henrichsen.

Bibliography of style manuals for scientific research, writing, and presentation. Guides for biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, geology, and mathematics.

The website for the mailing list A.Word.A.Day (AWAD), which sends a vocabulary word and its definition to the subscribers every day.

Explores the history, evolution byways, quirks, and curiosities of the English language. New and recent words and phrases are often featured, as are books on aspects of English. A weekly newsletter is sent by e-mail and RSS.

Provides recommendations on editorial style and publishing practices for the digital age.

A simple website offering the correct spellings of commonly misspelled words.

From alliteration to zeugma, and everything in between, all the figures of speech are here.

Research, writing, and style guides by I. Lee.

A collection of exercises specifically for children, created by children's book author Bruce Van Patter.

Contains games and challenges for stimulating creativity. Also has a random word generator that is useful for activities such as clearing writers block and generating ideas.

A resource for learning and applying Limited Fork Theory, the study of interacting systems, to ways of making work (known as poams: products of acts of making) to writing and thinking.

Write (and finish) original short stories, poems, plays, musicals, memoirs. All teachers are published authors. All groups have a maximum and six students.

Offers several annual competitions, among them a contest on the specific theme of War and a parody competition. Includes link lists, recommendations for reading and an online guide to poetry contests for subscribers.

A $2,000 poetry contest for book-length manuscripts (at least 48 pages), sponsored by the Ohio State University's literary magazine, "The Journal". Reading fee: $25. Entries must be postmarked during the month of September.

A listing of worldwide, English-language poetry contests, including those who do not maintain a web site.

Annual competition seeks poems on general themes, not more than forty lines in length. Three monetary prizes totalling $800, also honarary mentions. All poems judged anonymously. Entry fee: $5. per poem. Deadline each year-: October 7.

Information about creative writing contests, poetry contests, literary magazines theme issues, writing residencies, grants, fellowships. Now accepting writing contest news and announcements.

New original screenplays, 45-125 pages in any genre, from new writers from all over the world.

A global screenwriting contest for film and television.

International competition for short story writers successfully published in magazines and/or placed in competitions.

An annual prize awarded by the European Commission to the British secondary school pupil who produces the best translation of a set text, in any of the official EU languages, into English.

Lists markets and writing courses. Also offers editing and critiquing services.

By A.T. Lee. This article is for educational purposes only. It is a brief overview of copyright issues that fan fiction writers in the United States of America may find useful.

Offers original anime stories, influenced by the love of anime, though they are completely original, not FanFics.

A webring to draw together women writers of fan fiction. Any and all fandoms are welcome to join.

Offers horror genre news and information from JournalStone Publishing.

Formed in the late 1980s by a group of writers who wanted a private forum for exchanging ideas.

Seeks to recognize writers and readers who promote and support short mysteries in the press, in other mystery organizations, and through awards.

Information on the well-known science fiction and fantasy writing workshop held at UC San Diego. Workshop and Alumni information, newsletter, workshop instructors, contacts and FAQ.

Literary journal. Articles, exercises, prompts and an interactive community with boards, forums and chats. Monthly e-newsletter.

Brings technology, history and literature together in the form of links, commentaries, interviews and essays. Each issue has a theme. Offers teaching modules designed by the George Mason University English Department staff.

Offers interviews, video and resources.

Part word palace, part literary salon and part sweat shop.

Provides information in the form of articles, interviews, fiction, poetry, humor and tips for writers of all experience levels.

Online sampling of the monthly print magazine. Articles, news and additional features for members, including an informative forum. Excerpts from current and past issues, as well as next month's issue. Kalmbach Publishing Company.

Writing tips and a weekly email list for writers and Pagans.

A set of mailing lists providing community and guidance to writers.

A blog by MacAllister Stone on writing topics, including freelance writing, novels and nonfiction. Contains a forum.

An account of a writer's journey through cyberspace. It includes a weblog, an ezine, free public domain etexts, recipes, quotes and quality links to subjects of interest to writers.