HANDY WEBSITES


Duotrope's Digest -- www.duotrope.com

A single source for your submission needs, where you'll find updated listings of virtually every literary journal in existence. You can search by any number of terms, or just browse the alphabetical listings. Each entry includes basic information about the journal (submission guidelines, deadlines, $$ for publication, etc) and user feedback (average response time, acceptance rate, etc). Entries also include a direct link to the journal's website. This really is an amazing site, and we hope you check it out. Best of all: it's FREE!


The Elegant Variation -- http://marksarvas.blogs.com/

The best literary blog in the business.


Poets and Writers -- http://www.pw.org/

Best utilized for its free Grants and Award Deadlines calendar, this website also includes articles about writing/publishing, and a fairly extensive writing-related blog.


Arts and Letters Daily -- http://www.aldaily.com/

A fantastic site with links to current articles, book reviews, and other points of interest for the literary connoisseur. The links in the left column are extremely convenient: check out the site to see what we mean.


Galley Cat -- http://www.mediabistro.com/Galleycat/

Recent literary news, articles, and things of interest to writers.


Publishers Marketplace -- http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/

Great site for job-postings and general information about publishing.


SUGGESTED READING


Zen in the Art of Writing, by Ray Bradbury.


The Paris Review Interviews, in print or online (full archives!) at http://www.theparisreview.org/literature.php.


Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life, edited by Charles Baxter and Peter Turchi


Burning Down the House, by Charles Baxter