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Notices

• Scorched Earth Publishing
  is taking prose and poetry submissions for their Changes issue. Deadline is Dec. 1 2004.
• Stactcats Review
  a literary journal, is accepting fiction, poetry, and creative/critical essays for its premier issue. or submission guidelines visit the website or email.
• A Woman's Write: Montly Writing Contests
  For news about a writing competition for creative women. We give a thorough, thoughtful critique to all our entrants and a cash prize to the best submission each quarter.
• Gorlan Publications
  submissions accepted of stories up to 2,500 words for publication on-line.
• Timocracy Online is now offering open submissions for authors and writers for inclusion as content their site.
• Writing the Historical Novel with Alan Fisk
  An all inclusive weekend getaway with Newfoundland Historical Novelist Alan Fisk
• Call for Submissions:
  For an upcoming anthology of women's writing. GOOD WOMEN and Their Bad, BAD Feelings.
• Writing Fellowship- Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest in Clermont, KY offers a funded WRITING FELLOWSHIP each year. No application fee.
• Muse Apprentice Guild - an online journal has a call for work for a new gay/lesbian/queer section of the journal.
• Authors Sci-Fi Project
• Call for Submissions - Forbidden Plum Press is an experiment in the emancipation of the written word. Sponsored by an established publisher, Emerson&Mac226;s Eye, the publication process will couple experienced publishing professionals with college students eager to experience the world of publishing first-hand. CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION
• Gambeson Media Network - is now accepting submissions for its new publishing venue, the Gambeson Media Network. Gambeson is a professionally designed news, entertainment and information site serving the fiction, nonfiction, music and poetry communities.
• The First Line - a collection of short stories stemming from a common first line. At this time, we are accepting submissions for the next several issues of our magazine.
• Poetry Contest Insider - is a quarterly electronic newsletter that subscribers receive via email. Designed to help fellow poets navigate the hundreds of contests they can enter.
• Analyst, Consultant and Reader of Scripts and Manuscripts  - A professional reader's help to you the writer with an aim of fine tuning your work (script, manuscript, screenplay) so that when it is submitted to that agent, producer and/or studio, their reader will pass it along with flying colors!
• Legacy Publishing  - is looking for all non-fiction rejected manuscripts. If you have a manuscript that has been rejected or is simply gathering dust I want it.! (email: legacytrader@aol.com)

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Editorial Services

• A* Editing offers professional freelance proofreading, copy-editing and writing services for publishers, authors, students, organisations and businesses. Grammar, spelling, typographical, consistency of style, all made professionally presentable at low pricing rates. Specialising in science and academic based work. Americanizing and Anglicising. Free sample edit offer.
• Proof Perfect - professional proofreading, copy editing, writing. High-quality service with over 15 years experience proofreading, writing, and editing for magazines, newspapers, theses, term papers, advertising, books and web sites. email
• GJT Services - copy editing (hard copy or MS Word); proofreading; copy writing; ghost writing; rewriting; word-processing, authors’ manuscripts, half-yearly & annual company reports, students’ dissertations, Ofsted school reports, CVs, letters of application, newsletters, brochures. Enquire about other services.
• Editing International, LLC serves writers, publishers, and businesses in the international community, offering editing and consulting on nonfiction and fiction. We offer personal coaching, group instruction, workshops and speeches for organizations, and ghostwriting.
• Correctordetextos.com - Spanish proofreading, copy edition, translations and edition - revisión y corrección de textos
  
• IB Editorial Services UK author offers proofreading, copy editing, indexing, copy writing, re-writing, and research services, plus word processing and transcription of manuscripts, theses, dissertations for publishers, authors, academics and students
• Learning Curve Editorial Services editorial services for new writers. These incude manuscript appraisal, editing, rewriting, and ghost writing services.
• Lucida Editing Services - Offering professional editing, proofreading, critique, and other text related services for writers in every genre.
  
• MyResearchNeeds.com - Helping writers with in-depth and fact finding research, archival materials, expert finding, bibliographic expansion, personal database creation, fact checking, reprint permission, and indexing.
  
• Technical Writer - a recent college grad seeking work.
• Poetry Master - Good Poems Made Better -- Free Offer: Send 4-book poet Dan Masterson a poem for comments. If you then wish to continue working with him, you may do so on a fee basis. But that first poem is free - no strings attached.
• QueryLetters.com Writing and Editing Services
• Success Literary Services - provides serious manuscript editing and film script coverage services to independent writers and publishing and production professionals. Est. 1984. Member NWA & EFA.
• Winzig Consulting Services | Technical Writing and Editing | Minnesota - A Minneapolis, Minnesota sole proprietorship offering technical editing, technical writing, HTML editing, and web publishing services since 1990.

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News Resources

• Lanacom Headliner an automatic browser for pages that have changing content.
• Inquisit news service that for $30/mo will email you your choice of summaries or clickable headlines.
• My Yahoo News Ticker direct feed to your desktop
• NetMinde's
• San Jose Mercury News
• NewsBytes high-tech top stories.
• Hispanic/Latino News Service
• CNN Financial/Business News
• CNN Interactive
• Yahoo News
• Internet Press
• Reuters
• ABC News
• New York Times
• Los Angeles Times
• TribWeb Tacoma, Washington News Tribune
• KNTVNorthern California News
• KPIXNorthern California News
• Newspapers From Around The World
• NandONet: The News & Observer
• Philadelphia Inquirer
• USA Today
• National Public Radio
• Interactive Age - Contains Interactive Age Daily, Daily Media and Marketing Report and Computer News Daily,
• Time Warner's Pathfinder (Time, People, Life, etc.)
• MSNBC
• Wall Street Journal
• The Electronic Telegraph - London's Daily Telegraph
• Daily Record and Sunday Mail
• DeLorme - View maps of places in the news from DeLorme Mapping.
• The Daily Buzz This page, which is updated daily, is an extensive resource of news connections: world news, local news, entertainment, weather, and sports
• Women's Wire Here's a women's approach to the Web with daily news reports, fashion, gossip, election updates, polls, and live chat.
• The War Zone: News from the Former Yugoslavia
• Television News Archive Vanderbilt University
• DisInformation was designed to be the search service of choice for individuals looking for information on current affairs, politics, new science and the 'hidden information,' that seldom seems to slip through the cracks of the corporate owned media conglomerates.

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Online publications

• *bylines* offers quality books, nonfiction novellas, nonfiction short stories and articles for the price of a good cup of coffee.
• The On-line Books Page is a directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet.
• The Eclectic Journal publishes a wide variety of non-fiction articles, poetry, and short fiction featuring a positive outlook.
• The Call Project this site explores art, literature, and especially classical music in an original and thought provoking way.
• PYROWORDS, a Montreal-based quarterly literary magazine is a vibrant platform for poetry and fiction.
• Scorched Earth Publishing is a literary ezine that publishes prose, poetry, and serialized novels on a bimonthly basis.
• MagPortal This service helps people find free online magazine articles on a wide range of topics from many different publishers.
• Inklings email subscription majordomo@samurai.com "subscribe inklings" in the message body.
• Editor & Publisher Interactive
• Hollywood Scriptwriter Magazine annual agents list
  
• Columbia Journalism Review
• American Journalism Review
  
• Sapphire Magazine
• Editorial Eye
• The Utne Lens - The Utne Reader's online version
• LIFE Magazine
• People Magazine - People weekly online

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Research

• Library of Congress exhibitions, library services and research tools
• StudyWEB Meta-Encyclopedia for Research -- 15,000 research links
• Electric Library (search newspapers, magazines, TV and radio scripts, books; pay site)
• Deadline online.com essentials for journalism research.
• Digital Librarian a librarian's best of the web
• NewsWorks (search newspapers)
• News Searchers (search individual newspapers and magazines)
• University of Michigan's Documents in the News
• Library of Congress
• FedWorld
• Project Gutenberg (hundreds of out-of-copyright books)
• John McDonnell's Researcher's Toolkit
• Virtual Gumshoe (investigative resources)
• Writers Free Reference
• Internet Public Library Reference Shelf
• The Free Internet Encyclopedia

 

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Writing Style and Guides

• Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation - Assistance in the crafting, implementing and defending of a graduate school thesis or dissertation. This site includes a variety of strategies, suggestions and advice covering every stage of the thesis or dissertation project.
• Write Again! - provides an intelligent environment in which to organise all your writing projects - the software will suggest markets for your completed projects, or projects to newly entered markets.
• Good Documents - How to write for the INTRAnet. A web-site that discusses how to create good business documents in the linked, on-screen environment of Intranets and the Internet.
• Writers' Village University - is staffed by volunteer writers and teachers.
• Internet Newsbureau - Tips on Writing & Media Relations how to write press releases
• Copyeditor.com
• Guide to Grammar and Writing - This comprehensive grammar and writing guide is an excellent reference and study tool.
• 11 Rules of Writing
• William Strunk, The Elements of Style
• Yale Style Manual
• Style Guide for Online Hypertext
• The UVic Writer's Guide
• Freelance Writing Primer
• The Playwriting Seminars
• Purdue University Online Writing Lab

 

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Language Sites

• Eurodicautom - a phenomenal terminology source between 12 major languages
  
• Yamada Language Guides - An archive of non-English fonts, language-related web connections, news groups and mailing lists, foreign language fonts.
  
• The Human Languages Page
  
• Language-Related Web Pages - links to Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish sites
  
• Collins Cobuild
  
   

 

Insight, Inspiration, and Motivation

• The Excellent Writer Within
  Michael Levy's excellent article. The art of good writing comes from the artist within. All humans have the ability to become great authors, poets, artists and musicians, etc., so why do most folks find it such a difficult task?
  
• IdeaFisher
  IdeaFisher tools have proven to be a phenomenal catalyst for solving real-world challenges. Crafting Advertising messages - Facilitating professional consulting sessions - Writing speeches, stories, books, business plans
  
• WritePro
  Home of WritePro, FirstAid for Writers, and FictionMaster. Through the programs described here, Sol Stein becomes your coach and editor, guiding you step by step in the creation and enhancement of your writing.
  
• Write Brothers.
  For over 20 years, Write Brothers (formerly called Screenplay Systems) has helped new and experienced writers. Their tools include Dramatica® Pro, Hollywood Screenwriter™, Movie Magic® Contracts, Movie Magic® Screenwriter, StoryView™, Word Menu®, Writer's DreamKit™
  

Finding sources

• National Press Club Directory of News Sources
• Yearbook of Experts, Authorities & Spokespersons
• Entertainment and Media Directory
• Entertainment Yellow Pages Directory
• Online Directory of Experts & Spokespersons
• Switchboard (national telephone directory)
• Four11 Online User Directory (search for Internet e-mail addresses)
• GuestFinder finds guests and interview sources.
• Hollywood Access Directory -- Info on Hollywood agents and producers.
• Hollywood Creative Directory -- This is the industry's insider resource.
• City Lookup Does your fictional town really exist?

 

 

Writers Resources

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