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List of Wordpress Themes for Writers
We've put together a list of wordpress themes for writers. They are easy to use and versatile. Take a look.
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Free Ebook Sites For those of you looking for uploads to your Kindle or phones we've put together a list of places where you can find all the Free Ebooks you want.
List of Book Publishers We have created a new list of book publishers. Take a look here. We hope that it is helpful. If you represent a press you can list your details here.
We have updated out list! Here is a listing of a 150 science fiction magazines. We've weeded out all the junk and are bringing you the best lists on the net. All high quality science fiction magazines, enjoy!
Our New Top Online Literary Magazines List! We have rewritten our old "Best Online Literary Magazines" list and made it our "Top Online Literary Magazines list. Now you can access the list in 2 ways. Static List or Interactive database.
Print Magazines Taking Online Submission
One reason we have begun to create a new list of literary magazines is to better service writers and creating more complete list. In the past our Print Magazines taking online submissions was one of our most popular lists. The list was not comprehensive. Our new list will be.
Replacing the Big List of Literary Magazines
Currently we are working on a new project that will, in time, replace the big list of literary magazines. It is hard to us to do, but we know the list has become hard to maintain and not so user friendly, so we have started Literary Magazines Blist.
The Big List:
The Big List has been around for about 6 years. It is THE largest collections of zine links on the web. THE BIG LIST.
Horror Magazine List Update
As a Halloween hoopla we have updated our Horror Magazine list! Stop by and take a look at over 215 creepy and spooky magazines. Take a look.
How to Promote Your Writing Even If It Hasn't Been Published
We all know as writers it’s difficult to get our work out there. Here are 10 things you can do even before your writing has been published. Not in any order. Read the article.
New List: Freelance Writer
We've come up with a new list for those of you who enjoy the hard thankless job of writing: Freelance Writers
New: Print on Demand After 2 years and much deliberation, here is our list of self publishing book companies or print on demand companies. Please read our article Should I Self Publish My Book for more information.
Should I get an MFA in Creative Writing?
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: If you are considering going for your MFA in Creative Writing here are a few things to keep in mind: read the article.
How to Format your Manuscript
Don't get labeled a newbie before the editorial assistant pulls your manuscript all the way out of the box. Here's a few tips on what the book publishing company editors look for before the manuscript even hits their desks. There's no one right way of formatting, but you can do it the wrong way. Let the editors make their decision about your manuscript based on story and content and not on formatting. Read the article.
Workshop Resources for Writers
I’ve been looking at the resources on our site and thinking, “Hmmm, there’s something missing." I realized we do not have any kind of “helpful sites writers use for writing” listed here. These are some general sites in 3 areas
107 Contemporary Short Story Writers We've listed 107 of the top short story writers living today. We thought they needed a shout out. Click here for the complete list.
Sites for Writing Teachers We know many writers are teachers, so here is a list of sites for teaching writing. We not happy about it, but it is a short list. Please take a look at add any sites that might help other readers in their quest for teaching the craft!
Social Networks/ Message Boards for Writers We have created a short list of some of the best social networking sites and message boards for writers. The sites listed are only beginning. We would like for you to add to them. Post a comment at the bottom of the page, and we'll add the site to the list. Social Networking for Writers.
A slideshow of SciFi Magazines We've created a slideshow of historic science fiction magazines with facts about each publications. Take a look.
Children's Book Publishers We are working on our list of children's book publishers. Check back often for updates! Click here for children's book publishers.
Going Pulp: Top 10 Science Fiction Magazines We've found the 10 Science Fiction magazines we feel are the best that are in publication today. Criteria: 1. Age, 2. Popularity, 3. Awards won. Take a look!
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Should You Ever Pay to Have Your Work Read? I’ve heard a lot of chatter on the web saying things like if a contests charges to enter, it’s not worth it. I’ve heard the same thing from message boards and facebook about magazines that charge a submission fee. The views that were expressed to me were a little disturbing, to be honest. From what I understand there is a school of thought out there that says you should never pay anything to have your work looked at, or to enter a contest...(Read More)
Every Day Poems: Call for Submissions
We are taking Donations.
We need your help! We are trying to raise money to keep EWR on the web. It takes time and money to run the site, so we are asking for your help. We are asking for a very SMALL donation! Help us out.
We Want Your News!
Help us turn our Writing Sense blog into a center for literary magazine and book publisher news! We want to become the number 1 news source for literary news on the web, but we need your help. We need you to submit your news. We will do the rest. We will publish your press releases to our readers and promte your publications and publishing companies to thousands of readers for free! Click here.
10 Common Mistakes in Grammar
Here are 10 Common Errors in English that you may not be aware of. These are simple mistakes, and they are best avoided. Click Here.
Winner of our Halloween Contest
Last month we started running a Halloween short stories contest. We received around 300 submissions for the contest. Of those submissions we published very few, and only one was selected as the winner of our contest. This winner gets a link here on our front page. "Found & Lost" by Jarret Liotta is our winner. Read the story here.
Happy Halloween!
We love Halloween around here. Every year we do a few things to bring out the ghoul in all our writers. This year is not any different. We are watching a horror movie online with you, having a short story horror contest, and as always, we have some great horror magazines listed for you. More details here.
We are Looking for News
We are looking for news from your literary publication. We hope to turn our literary blog into a news and information center for our readers, and we want to know everything that is going on with your lit mag or journal, new issues, contests, call for submissions ect...click here for details.
Interview with Rob Spillman
We are Looking for Interviews
We are taking ten questions from any editor. If you do these questions we will publish the interview. You need to send us a pic and links to your lit mag and we'll publish it. Some of these interviews will make our front page. Stop by, answer the questions and email them to us today! Click here.
Read about Twain's first publication. This is a very funny take (of course) on the publishing world, what it was like for Twain, and the publishers that did not see his great genius at the time of his submissions. Read the article.
& Robert Frost on Stage.
An amazing video of Twain a year before he died. It's on of those very short videos that is hard to look away from. Twain at the end of his life, taken by a giant of science. Twain has tea with his daughters. Great great video.
This list is for fun, and it is meant to be to tongue-in-cheek. We hope to honor the women on this list, and by writing it we hope to draw more attention to their works. Imagine for a moment that these women lived today, in our culture. With names in “entertainment” like these, it would not be long before they made Star magazine’s best and worst dress list. Can you imagine Emily Dickinson’s exploits on the cover of The Enquirer. Read the list.
Here are 10 stories we feel are the best of the best when it comes to creepy. They are by the masters and they range from horrific to chilling. Take a look, and find out ways to sign up to get a short story every day from EWR.
Shakespeare Sucks! by Leo Tolstoy
I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read, one after the other, works regarded as his best: “King Lear,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “Hamlet” and “Macbeth,” not only did I feel no delight, but I felt an irresistible repulsion and tedium, and doubted as to whether I was senseless in feeling works regarded as the summit of perfection by the whole of the civilized world to be trivial and positively bad, or whether the significance which this civilized world attributes to the works of Shakespeare was itself senseless. Read More.
What It Takes to Write a Novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
Words from Robert Louis Stevenson on his writing of Treasure Island, and information to all writers on what it takes to write a novel: "Sooner or later, somehow, anyhow, I was bound to write a novel. It seems vain to ask why. Men are born with various manias: from my earliest childhood, it was mine to make a plaything of imaginary series of events; and as soon as I was able to write, I became a good friend to the paper-makers." Read more.
Junot Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. His stories have appeared in the in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Story and have been featured in Best American Short Stories, and Best American Short Fiction. Díaz is the author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Drown. He is a graduate of Rutgers University, and he received his M.F.A. from Cornell University. His new novel will be out in 2007. He currently teaches writing at MIT. Read the interview.
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New Poetry on Every Day Poetry B. L. Goss is the first poet ever published on our classic poetry site. Letter I is the first contemporary poem published here, and you now can submit your work!
Jobs Search for Writers If you are a writers, freelancer, blogger, and you are looking for a job, use our new service. If you are an employer, you can post your jobs her too! Click here
Stephen Dunn is the author of 14 collections of poetry and the winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his work Different Hours. He is the recipient of many awards including the James Wright Prize, three fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He answered our question about his writing and ideas by email. His newest collection Everything Else in the World is out from W. W. Norton. Read the interview.
Interview with Mark Twain An interview from the Hartford Daily Courant from May 30th 1888. Twain would have been 53 years old. He had just finished a new book. Click here to read it.
Willa Cather On the Art of Fiction Willa speaks on the importance of the art of fiction. This is a 1920 article from A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays. Take a look.
Edgar Allen Poe on Poetry Poe talks about poetry in this article. It is a detailed look on his thought on The Poetic Principle. It is an interesting look into the mind of Poe and his views on his craft. Take a look.
On Writing Find articles and essays on writing from the past greats. We have started a new series on our site On Writing.
Get a Short Story Everyday We are posting some of the greatest short stories in history on our site. You can get these stories by email or by rss. If you are a writer all these stories are a must read! You can become familiar with writers who created and perfected the form. Stop by the site and sign up!
Here are the Academy Awards this year that have something to do with writing. We don't want to forget that all that glam starts somewhere. Some would say (including us) the most important step in making a good movie...
Here are some vintage political cartoons that still apply today. We thought we'd dress things up a bit. We will be running a different political cartoon once a week. Check back often to see what we come up with. Click here for the full story.
Sign up with our new site, and get a poem a day by email or rss. If you love poetry, read these.
You can also Click here for poetry!
Give to Haiti A list of ways you can help Haiti. Click here.
Problems in Writing 2000-2009 A look at the problems for writers that have come into their own over the last 10 years. The top 5 things writers will have to face down in the future. Click Here.
Give to a Great Cause If you can afford to give to a cause, please think about giving something to Smile Train. They fix cleft lips of children in 3rd world countries. It is a truly worthy cause. More info.
Pulitzer Prize in Poetry Winners from 2000-2009! These are the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry winners from 2000-2009. We hope you get to know them. We wish that all poets would be rock stars. Short of that, watch these videos and buy their books. Click here.
New Icons for More Traffic! You can use any of these icons to link back to your post on our literary magazines website. Get more votes, move up the list, get more traffic! Click here.
What Will E-Readers Bring? What do you think E-Readers are going to do for writers? Do you think they will help or hurt us? Read the article.
Publish your book, magazine, and contest news here! We are always trying to help writers and the industry bring the most up-to-date information to audiences, and now we are happy to announce EWR: Literary News. It is a site where you can publish information about your publications, forums, and just news! For writers, editors and publishers. Take a look.
Come join us on facebook. You can be a fan OR a friend. If you want to promote your literary magazine you can join our group "Literary Magazines." We hope to see you there.
How to Submit a Short Story
Some writers will post work on their myspace or web pages and let 100s of people read it, but they are afraid to get 1 rejection from an editor. This is silly. Writing might be a lone process. We may be alone in creating our worlds, but sharing your writing with others is one of the most fulfilling experiences of the literary process. Read the article.
Should I Take an Online Writing Course? If you are thinking of taking an online writing course or if you have written off the idea, here are some things to think about. Will it help? It can. Click here.
Recycled Hallucination
A collection of video poetry from EWR editor.
The collection is still in progress, so have a look, and stop by every so
often to read later entries.
Click here to
see the poems.
Make Money with Your Literary Magazine Take some burden off yourself and make a little money with your literary magazines. This article addresses some general ways to make money on the web with a website. Click here.
Easy Search Find out if your magazine or book publish is on our site. We have 1000s of pages, find out where you are listed.
How to Submit a Poem! For some the process of submissions can be a little overwhelming especially for new writers. There is no manual for how to submit anything. However, here are 10 things to keep in mind when you are submitting poetry. Read the Article
Gain Confidence in Your Writing! A few tips on improving your writing. If you need help in writing or just have trouble getting your work out there, click here.
The Pitfalls of Literary Magazines Learn the headaches of starting a literary magazine or literary site. I've made a lot of mistakes, now I'd like to help you avoid them. Click here.
A New Blog from our Editor All kinds of cool and fun stuff from the editor of EWR. You can get news about the site, news about the industry, and just news about the editor. Stop by Writing Sense.
How to Start A Successful Money Making Literary Magazine My first online literary venture was Drunk Duck, in 1999. The magazine ran for 2 years and was very successful. It was so labor intensive that I simply got overwhelmed and gave up. This article is meant as a step by step on how to start a literary magazine. It is also meant to give you some things to think about, tell you mistakes that I made, and advise you on new developments that will help you. Chick here.
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were excited and honored that Rob Spillman would take part in our interview
series. Mr. Spillman is editor and co-founder of Tin House. The publication
is without question one of the best literary magazines in the country.
Mark
Twain on First Getting Published 
An amazing video of Robert Frost speaking. The video is part of a
documentary that was shot in the 1960s. This clip is very interesting in
that it has Frost talking about his work, and some of his views about his
poetry. The video is very short and worth watching. 
1909
Video of Mark Twain Taken by Thomas Edison
Top 10 Hottest Poets of the 19th
Century
Top 10 Classic Horror Stories
Junot Díaz:
Straight on Influences and Creation
Words
and Ideas with Stephen Dunn
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New Poem Everyday