Helpful Links

Writing is a solitary pursuit and yet, like everyone else, writers need to network, especially when it comes to the business side of the literary endeavor. We hope you'll find the following resources for writers useful.

ORGANIZATIONS providing helpful writing resources:

Publishing your work -- and finding a literary community in which you feel you belong -- is important. Why? Elizabeth Ayres explains it this way, in the Afterword to Writing the Wave:

"... a piece of writing is like a battery. It's charged with your feelings, memories, imaginings and so forth. But batteries are not meant to sit on shelves. Batteries have a purpose in life, a destiny to fulfill. Batteries are meant to light up flashlights, keep radios running at the beach, make little pink bunnies go on and on. Your writing has a purpose, too. A destiny, if you will.

I call it "completing the cycle of communication." That which has come from your heart and soul and poured forth into words on the page must find its way into the hearts and souls of other human beings. It's pretty simple, really. If the words on your page aren't shared with other human beings, they're just unused batteries, collecting dust in a drawer. And if your words aren't fulfilling their purpose, then you, the writer, can't grow. Imagine what would happen if you tied a black bag around a rosebush just before it came into bloom. If the poor thing can't complete its growth cycle, it will shrivel up and die."

We encourage you to take the next step, to get your work out into the world where it belongs -- a world that needs your wisdom. We hope we've given you a helpful writing resource by providing links to a broad spectrum of literary magazines, online and off! Each magazine will have some sort of 'guidelines for submissions' page.

LITERARY MAGAZINES