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For writers + poets
Poets + Writers Online
Excellent articles, guides and other resources for poets and writers, including information on grants and markets for publishing your work.
pw.org
Duotrope’s Digest
An interactive database of over 7,100 markets for publishing your fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual art, as well as a database of literary agents. Duotrope has a great search engine to help you locate places accepting simultaneous and multiple submissions while filtering out those not currently accepting work. It also includes a chart with average response times. Be sure to check out their online submissions tracker and subscribe to the weekly newsletter. Pretty useful stuff. They charge a nominal subscription rate, so take advantage of the free trial to decide if it’s worth it to you.
duotrope.com
Creative Writers Opportunities List (CRWROPPS)
Blog that details literary contests, jobs and publication opportunities for poems, stories, essays and book manuscripts.
https://creativewritersopps.blogspot.com/
NewPages.com
News, information and guides to independent bookstores, publishers, literary magazines, creative writing programs, writers’ conferences and more. Updated at least three times a week, so you can’t get more current than this.
newpages.com
Business of Writing
Is your writing a business or hobby?
Your answer can have a big impact on your taxes. Check out this IRS fact sheet for details.
Copyright Basics
Did you know your work is automatically copyrighted? Check out this fact sheet from the US Copyright Office.
More Poetry Resources
Poetry Daily
A recently published poem each day plus poetry news from around the world.
poems.com
Americans’ Favorite Poem Project
Video, audio & texts of poems loved by ordinary Americans.
favoritepoem.org/favoritepoem
Poetry 180
Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins’ initiative to post 180 poems for high school students to read and hear, one for each day of the school year.
loc.gov/poetry/180
Academy of American Poets
Services for poets & teachers including hundreds of poems as text and audio. Great links.
poets.org
Poetry Society of America
The nation’s oldest poetry organization sponsors programs, initiatives, contests and awards.
poetrysociety.org
The Edison Review
Publishes poetry by New Jersey writers and sponsors readings & other literary events.
edisonliteraryreview.org
The Poetry Foundation
Home of Poetry Magazine with a huge archive of poems, interviews, news and other useful features.
poetryfoundation.org
Internet Poetry Archive
Audio recordings of Seamus Heaney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker & Richard Wilbur.
ibiblio.org
Poets OnLine
A site of inspiration. A new poetry writing prompt every two weeks.
poetsonline.org
Peter’s Tips
Murphy’s Revision Style Sheet
Whether you write prose or poetry, it’s your job to get the words right and you can’t do this without deep revision. Here are some ideas to get you started.
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Murphy’s Roof Preading Tips (a.k.a. Murphy’s Proofreading Tips)
Few of us can hire our own editors to clean up our messes so here are some of Peter E. Murphy’s favorite things to look out for.
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Have you “Reader Tested” your writing?
Do you know what your readers are thinking? Try my “Reader Test” to see your work in progress as an intelligent, interested stranger might.
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Resources for Publishing Your Writing
Here are a few brilliant internet tools that will give you up to date information on where to submit your poems, stories and creative nonfiction so you can spend more time writing.
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Murphy’s Laws for Writers
Poor Murphy. Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. You know you’re having a Murphy day when things go from bad to worse to terrible. Until now, however, there have not been Murphy’s Laws for Writers.
10 Ways to Avoid Writing
It’s summer! The flowers are blooming, the days are longer, but the mosquitoes have been snorting Red Bull, and depending on where you live, dust storms, fires or floods are trying to kill you. How can you concentrate on those neglected poems or the novel you abandoned last August? Better put off your writing for two or three more months. Here are a few suggestions to help you procrastinate.
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What are you afraid of?
Everyone is afraid of at least one thing. I am lucky because I am afraid of a lot of things: dogs, numbers, deer ticks, crowds, dying, clowns. How does this make me lucky? Look at all the wonderful things I have to write about. My litany of terror keeps me from being a listless graphophobe.
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Leap before you look!
I know. You’re thinking I’ve got that backwards, and perhaps I do. I jumped off a cliff in Wales into the Irish Sea. The locals call this extreme sport coasteering, and it is both brilliant and terrifying.
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For teachers
Professional Development Resources for Teachers
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