Silken Words The site of writer Cheryl B. Sellers. Cheryl's writings indicate evidence from being a black child through her maturation into becoming the women she is today. Her first volume of poetic works, "Painted Words" is now in publication.
Write-away Write-away (w-a) is a non-commercial, free to read, free to submit online magazine promoting both published and unpublished English language poets. w-a's essence is simplicity, no gimmicks and no banner ads - just good poetry. All poems are published online and the magazine is uploaded quarterly. w-a has a truly global readership as one might expect from an online magazine. All subscribers receive only w-a mail and no subscriber details are passed to third parties for any reason. Contributions from all are welcome; you don't have to be famous.
Dark Echo Features and interviews, a weekly newsletter, a writers' workshop and the most useful list of links on the Web for those interested in horror and dark fiction. Includes over 200 horror writers' sites, dozens of print and ezine sites, plus much more.
Horror Writers' Association (HWA)HWA is a worldwide organisation of writers and publishing professionals dedicated to promoting the interests of writers of Horror and Dark Fantasy. It was formed in the 1980s with the help of many of the field's greats, including Joe Lansdale, Robert McCammon and Dean Koontz. Members receive many benefits, including a bi-monthly newsletter packed with valuable horror publishing and market news, informative e-mail bulletins, access to lists of horror agents, reviewers and bookstores and keys to the invaluable "Members Only" area of the web site.
Societies, Organisations, Workshops, Advice & Tips For Writers
Directory of Writers' Circles A comprehensive directory of writers' groups, circles, courses and events within the UK.
Journalism UK Journalism UK is aimed at print journalists writing for UK magazines or based in the UK, although broadcasters may find news and other resources useful. We have concentrated on those most relevant to the UK but you can quickly go further afield with the links to international media organisations.
National Union of Journalists The NUJ is the world's largest journalists' union, with over 30 000 members in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
Scriptwriting Secrets Scriptwriting Secrets is a hypertext book. You can read it in order, or simply jump to the chapters that interest you.
WriteDirections.com Moving writers in the right direction. Classes to boost your skills and marketability, how-to articles to give yourself the professional edge, writing resources, invaluable books, free newsletters and coaching and consulting to jump start your project.
Web Site Design For Writers
Wordpool Design Wordpool Design is a friendly web design service specialising in websites for authors, illustrators and publishers. Whether you want a simple site or full e-commerce, their experience of designing and building book related sites can help you make the most of the web.
Writers' Web Designs The mission of Writers' Web Designs is to provide websites that are both professional and affordable for authors to promote their books online. They also offer an online community for authors to discuss and learn about book promotion.
Software For Writers
Character Pro Real writers and audiences know that the characters are one of the most important elements of a great story. Character Pro provides a proven system for understanding human behaviour, helping you to create your character. Character Pro isolates each part of the character, providing tools and extensive help files to guide you to a well-rounded, complex and realistic character.
Creative Writing Software, Freelance Writing, Drama, and Fiction Writing Software Creative writing software is designed to orchestrate all elements required for successful writing, from freelance writing to novels. The visual arts of script writing and play writing also make heavy use of fiction writing software design as a driving force of effective scriptwriting.
Plots Unlimited Plots Unlimited is an award-winning software for fiction writers and is the only such software created by a successful, working stage/screen/TV writer! It is an elegant, easy-to-use software program that helps fiction writers generate solidly constructed story plots and outlines. It is regarded as an indispensable tool by thousands of successful writers throughout the world.
StorybaseUsed by thousands of screenwriters, novelists, playwrights, game developers and copywriters worldwide, Storybase 2.0 utilizes the power of suggestion to stimulate the creative process.
The Writer's Software Companion The Writer's Software Companion is a multimedia learning system for fiction writers and is an extraordinary tool for novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, short-story writers and authors of all kinds.
More Fabulous Resources For Writers of All Genres...
Young Writers' Resources
A+ Research and Writing Step by step guide to researching and writing a paper, finding information in cyberspace and your library and links to great online research and writing resources.
Headliners Headliners is a UK-wide news agency producing news, features and comment by young people for everyone.
Through a unique learning through journalism programme, young people aged 8 to 19 research and write stories on issues that are important to them for publication in national and local newspapers, magazines, television and radio.
Stone Soup Stone Soup is unique among children's magazines it's the only magazine made up entirely of the creative work of children. 8 - 13-year-olds from all over the world contribute their engrossing stories, evocative poems, book reviews and gorgeous art work to Stone Soup.
Perfect Publishers LtdPerfect Publishers is a print-on-demand publishing company, which frankly I would regard as the best in the UK. They pay you 100% Royalties. As authors themselves, they passionately believe that ALL royalties should be that of the author. Very highly recommended for anyone wanting to publish their book quickly and cost-effectively.
Markets For Non-Fiction Here is an alphabetical list of publishers of non-fiction, all of whom are currently willing to accept unsolicited material, or at least an ititial approach from an unpublished writer, without the need for an agent.
Markets For Novels An alphabetical list of publishers of fiction, all of whom are currently willing to accept unsolicited material, or at least an initial approach from an unpublished writer, without the need for an agent. (Tip: A preliminary phone call to check the name of the appropriate editor to submit to is always a good idea.)
Memoir Writing
Turning Memories Into Memoirs For people who are writing lifestories or teaching others how to write memoirs. Workshops, coaching, seminars and editing services, in addition to how-to books and workbooks to assist you in your story writing.
Write My Memoirs We answer questions you may have about how to write your personal life story, your full family history or even a biography on someone else. Our complete online guide will take you step by step, story by story, through the memories you cherish in your life until you've finished writing your memoirs.
Writing Contests
A Woman's WriteThis website is slated to contain writer's tips (all free), useful book reviews, links to other salutary sites, recommendations and a monthly contest with real prizes for the winners.
Short Story Library: is a free online magazine which publishes anything from Short Stories to Micro Fiction to Poetry. The site publishes fresh stories weekly and is also runs free to enter writing contest where winners get published in a print edition each year! The site also includes a writers forum which provides the best in critiques and feedback as well as a great place for writers to find motivation. Short Story Library is open year round to submissions from all genres on all forms of short writing under 5000 words including micro, flash, poetry and short stories. For more details, http://shortstory.us.com/submit/
The Write PlaceThe Write Place is owned by Kimn Swenson Gollnick, an award-winning writer, reporter, photographer, teacher and speaker. Not only does the site list up-to-the-minute writing competitions, but offers quotes and excerpts, recommends books and videos and gives details of conference classes taught by Kimn herself. In addition to many hot links for writers, you can also read samples of Kimn's published works. Highly recommended.
