Web Resources for Creative Writing, Professional Writing and Journalism

• About.com: Contemporary Literature
  Features classic and contemporary authors from around the world.
  
  
• British Library Newspapers
  
  
• British Media Online
  Links to UK Newspapers: national, local, daily, weekly, plus major magazines & portals published online.
  
  
• BUBL Link - 5:15 Catalogue of Internet Resources - Creative Writing
  A useful gateway to Creative Writing websites.
  
  
• Bubl Link Catalogue of Internet Resources -
  Journalism
  Gateway to journalism websites.
  
  
• CAR Park UK
  Collection of computer assisted reporting and research resources for journalism in the UK.
  
  
• Duotrope's Digest
  A database of over 2250 current markets for short fiction, poetry, and novels/collections.
  
  
• The Elements of Digital Storytelling
  Explores the digital frontier, with an in-depth examination of the elements of digital storytelling and story making.
  
  
• HERO Newspapers and Magazines
  Links to UK and worldwide news sources
  
  
• Hold the Front Page
  A website for journalists and journalism students everywhere
  
  
• Intute: Arts and Humanities
  Provides access to the best Web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists.
  
  
• Intute: Social Sciences
  Provides access to the best Web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists.
  
  
• Journalism UK
  Links to resources for UK based print journalists.
  
  
• JournalismNet UK
  "The investigative guide to internet research." Contains links to search engines, news providers, government, business and legal information sources. This is the UK version, but sites for the US, France and Canada are also available.
  
  
• Online Writing Lab
  Purdue University
  
  
• A Poet Born
  "A one-stop poetry spot." Publishes poems and papers on poetry.
  
  
• Poetrymagazines.org.uk
  A new poetry magazine archive. This is a free access site to the full-text digital library of 20th and 21st century English poetry magazines from the Poetry Library collection. This site was launched on the 22nd of August 2003.
  
  
• Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors
  A miscellaneous goup of links to writing resources compiled by Jack Lynch, Rutgers University
  
  
• Sci-Fi Arizona Writer''s Workshop
  
  
• Suite 101.com - Resources for Writers
  An American site providing reviews of books, software and links to websites about writing.
  
  
• WATCH
  The WATCH File (Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders) is a database containing primarily, but not exclusively, the names and addresses of copyright holders or contact persons for authors and artists whose archives are housed, in whole or in part, in libraries and archives in North America and the United Kingdom.
  
  
• Women Writers Zine
  An independent guide to internet resources - women reading, writing, talking...
  
  
• World Lecture Hall - English, Writing and Rhetoric
  "Contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver university-level academic courses in any language".
  
  
• Writers on the Net
  "Online Writing Classes, Tutors, Writers'' Groups and more"
  
  
• Writers Write
  Resources for creative writers.
  
  
• Yahoo Literature Pages
  
  
• YouWriteOn.com
  Free Arts Council funded website for new writers. Each month, the 3 highest rated authors of the best opening chapters, or short stories, receive a free critique from established authors or a literary agent from a leading London literary agency.

• ABYZ news links
  Newspapers and other online news sources, such as press agencies and broadcast news, from around the world.
  
  
• BBC news
  International news service of the BBC. Searchable and updated daily, with links to other BBC news services including BBC World Service and BBC television news.
  
  
• Guardian unlimited
  The Guardian and The Observer online.
  
  
• NewsNow
  "Today NewsNow monitors breaking news in 20 languages from the Internet's most important online publications, including international, national and regional titles, newswires, magazines, press releases and exclusively online news sources spanning 141 countries."
  
  
• World-newspapers.com
  Directory of world newspapers, magazines and news sites in English. Browse by country, magazine subject or news type e.g. News photos, Alternative news.

• National Association of Press Agencies
  NAPA provides a directory of press agencies throughout the UK along with background information on how they work, code of conduct, etc.
  
  
• PA Group
  The Press Association Group is the UK's leading multimedia news and information provider, delivering 'fast, fair and accurate news' to newpapers, TV, radio, magazines, websites and mobile operators.
  
  
• Reuters UK
  Famous international press agency based in London. Site provides regularly updated news and share prices from the UK and the world, as well as a TV news channel, RSS feeds and information about Reuters and its history.
  

In addition to traditional online news sources, journalism on the web now includes new technologies such as podcasts, blogs etc. The following is a selection:

• BBC Podcast Directory
  Video and audio podcasts of news and current affairs programmes, documentaries, and features from the BBC.
  
  
• Cyberjournalist.net
  "CyberJournalist.net is a news and resource site that focuses on how the Internet, convergence and new technologies are changing the media."
  
  
• Journalism.co.uk
  
  
• Macloo.com
  Website of Mindy McAdams, University of Florida, focused on online journalism, offers a wealth of information about blogs and writing for the web, as well as her own blog on Teaching online journalism.
  
  
• Newsblog
  Guardian Unlimited's blog.
  
  
• Podfeed.net
  Podfeed.net is a podcast directory that helps you find podcasts, read and write podcast reviews, listen to podcasts and share your podcast with others.
  
  
• Podscope
  The audio and video search engine that searches spoken words in podcasts.
  
  
• Technorati - a site devoted to blogs
  "Organized by topical channels: business, entertainment, lifestyle, politics, sports, and technology, plus search and Blogger central. Underneath it all is a near real-time system called the Percolator which looks at linking and attention patterns of posts, who wrote them, who's linking to them, the rate of their popularity growth and many other factors. We use this information to determine what’s hot now and what’s gaining in attention — effectively the pulse of the blogopshere."
  
  
• YouTube
  Watch, comment on and share original videos worldwide.

• ABC - Audit Bureau of Circulations
  This site provides free access to the circulation, distribution and attendance data for ABC certified Magazines, Newspapers, Exhibitions and Directories within the UK and Republic of Ireland.
  
  
• ALCS - Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society
  Represents the interests of all UK writers and aims to ensure writers are fairly compensated for any works that are copied, broadcast or recorded.
  
  
• Arts Council England
  "The national development agency for the arts in England, distributing public money from Government and the National Lottery."
  
  
• The British Academy
  The National Academy''s prime purpose is to promote research and scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
  
  
• International Federation of Journalists
  The world''s largest organisation of journalists, representing around 450,000 members in 100 countries.
  
  
• ISTC - Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators
  Established for more than 50 years, the ISTC is the largest UK body representing professional communicators and information designers.
  
  
• National Union of Journalists
  
  
• nctj.com: National Council for the Training of Journalists Online
  Provides information about training to become a journalist with links to course details.
  
  
• Newspaper Marketing Agency (NMA)
  The NMA is funded by owners of all the major UK newspaper groups. and
  aims to make advertisers, agencies and media planners more aware of the power to influence customers. The site provides access to case studies, recent research, facts and figures that include circulation, readership, rate cards and prices etc, a Creative gallery displaying the most successful ads worldwide, plus downloadable 'classic pages' from all UK newspapers.
  
  
• NS The voice of local media (The Newspaper Society)
  Represents Britain's regional press. Focuses on lobbying, marketing and communications. The site includes a Facts and Figures section which provides data on advertising, circulation, distribution, technology etc. It also lists regional publications by title and provides an overview of the publication.
  
  
• The Poetry Society
  The website of the Poetry Society. Includes links to poetry sites, details of competitions, programmes etc.
  
  
• Poets and Writers
  An American non-profit making organisation offering resources for creative writers.
  
  
• Press Complaints Commission
  Provides information on the origins and function of the PCC. Includes a database of past adjudications.
  
  
• The Publishers Association
  The focal point for all book, journal and electronic publishers in the UK.
  
  
• SfEP - Society for Editors and Proofreaders
  
  
• The Society of Authors
  
  
• The Society of Indexers
  The British and Irish Professional Body for Indexing, the society exists to promote indexing, the quality of indexes and the profession of indexing.

• Acronym Finder
  Definitions for acronyms and abbreviations
  
  
• Bartleby.com
  Bartleby.com combines the best of both contemporary and classic reference works into the most comprehensive public reference library ever published on the web.
  
  
• Bartlett''s Familiar Quotations
  Passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources.
  
  
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online
  
  
• The Literary Encyclopedia
  The Literary Encyclopedia is an authoritative, up-to-date reference work written by named scholars most of whom are current university teachers. Its entries represent the state of the art in scholarly understanding and it grows in scale every week.
  
  
• Oxford English Dictionary (internal access only)
  
  
• Roget''s Thesaurus
  
  
• Your Dictionary.com

• The Economist Style Guide
  
  
• Elements of Style
  by William Strunk Jnr. 1918 edition.
  
  
• Guide to Grammar and Style
  by Jack Lynch - A miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage put together for his classes.
  
  
• Guide to Grammar and Writing
  A compendium of English grammar, usage, and writing information at the sentence, paragraph, and essay levels.
  
  
• Guide to Writing Research Papers
  Based on MLA Documentation.

• Explicator
  
  
• Michigan Quarterly Review
  
  
• Poetrymagazines.org.uk
  A new poetry magazine archive. This is a free access site to the full-text digital library of 20th and 21st century English poetry magazines from the Poetry Library collection. This site was launched on the 22nd of August 2003.
  
  
• The Richmond Review
  A literary magazine published exclusively on the Web.
  
  
• Rio: A Journal of the Arts
  
  
• Women Writers: an e-zine
  An independent guide to internet resources - women reading, writing, talking...
  
  
• The Write News
  "An extensive news and media database providing the latest news in the publishing and writing worlds"
  
  
• The WritePage
  An on-line newsletter with over 300 pages of author and book information for readers and how-to information for writers of genre fiction.
  
  
• Writers Write - The Internet Writing Journal