Resources for Writers
Every writer has their favorite literary resources. Here are a few of mine.
Submitting Your Work: Flash (under 750 words)
100 Word Story: Quite literally, stories and essays of 100 words
Brevity: The original flash creative nonfiction (under 750 words)
Creative Nonfiction Magazine's #cnftweet: tell a true story in a Tweet; winning entries on Twitter page and published in quarterly magazine
Proximity: Creative nonfiction published online (flash under 500 words)
River Teeth: Creative nonfiction, including blog section "Beautiful Things" of flash nonfiction
Submitting Your Work: Fiction and Nonfiction
apt: Both print and online opportunities
Baltimore Review: High-caliber publication, all genres
Bookends Review: Independent lit mag publishing all genres
Carve Magazine: Print and digital magazine, all genres
Green Briar Review: All genres, lengths under 6,000 words
Hippocampus Magazine: All lengths of creative nonfiction, including flash
Literary Mama: Online journal of writing about parenthood
Rum Punch Press: All genres including creative nonfiction
The Sun: Over 40 years of gorgeous prose and poetry, plus "Readers Write" section
Yemassee: University of South Carolina, all genres (1,000 to 5,000 words)
Other Opportunities
Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant: for Minnesota residents, up to $10,000 (open to artists at all stages in their careers)
Mirrors and Windows Mentorship: for Minnesota writers of color interested in children's literature. From the Loft Literary Center.
"Publish Your Writing," Poets & Writers
Favorite Reads
How to Make Cake Out of Cupcakes: How to Turn Your Essays Into a Book by Steven Church, Brevity Magazine
Dear Sugar: How Do I Write About My Life Without Alienating Everyone In It? by Steve Almond and Cheryl Strayed, New York Times
The Humble Essayist (website)
Interview: Brenda Miller, The Florida Review at UCF
A World Cup Without Eduardo Galeano (author of "The Fan") by Lenora Tedaro, The Atlantic
On Writing by Kate DiCamillo (website)
43 Words Your Should Cut from Your Writing Immediately by Diana Urban (blog)
Last updated 7/30/2018