We love honoring writers of course, and we thought we'd take a post and honor the 2010 Academy Award nominees for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adaptation. Here they are: Best Original Screenplay 'The Hurt Locker' by Mark Boal 'Inglourious Basterds' by Quentin Tarantino 'The Messenger' by Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman 'A Serious Man' by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen 'Up' by Peter Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy Best Adapted Screenplay 'An Education' by Nick Hornby 'District 9' by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell 'In the Loop' by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche 'Precious' by Geoffrey ...Read More

We liked these videos a great deal, and we thought you might like them too. If you have other videos you think we'd be interested in (high quality please), post a link in the comments, and we'll post them on this page. ...Read More

In the January/February issue of MotherJones magazine editor and writer Ted Genoways reviews the usefulness of literary magazines and where the impact of the craft of writing today. Genoways is the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review (a magazine that's doing well right now). He makes many good points in the article including: In the midst of a war on two fronts, there has been hardly a ripple in American fiction. With the exception of a few execrable screeds—like Nicholson Baker's ...Read More

A political cartoon by Thomas Nast from the late 1800s. We felt by changing the caption we could apply it to events of today. ...Read More

J. D. Salinger passed away last week, and now there is speculation about this unpublished works. In a famous Interview to the New York Times in 1974 Salinger said, "Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write. but I write just for myself and my own pleasure." Writers and editors alike are going crazy to find out if Salinger has anything in his vault. I can clear that up right now. Being a ...Read More

Poll: do you think newspapers should charge for their online content? The NY Times says they will soon make people pay for their online content. http://business.theatlantic.com/2010/01/new_york_times_to_charge_for_online_content_--_finally.php ...Read More

This is a  great story about the missing Poe toaster. Every year since 1949 series Poe fans know that a mysterious figure appears at Poe's grave and places a half bottle of cognac and a rose. This year the toaster didn't show, and no one knows why. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_poe_mystery_visitor Did anyone else think that the toaster died when they read this story? ...Read More

(A poor neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, as seen from the Petion-Ville Golf Club. Photo taken June 2006, Author: Alsandro) If you want a very quick way to give to the people in Haiti Relief you can text Haiti to 90999 (a $10 donation will show on your phone bill). Here are some other simple ways to help: American Red Cross Haiti Relief United Nations Foundation Unicef Catholic Relief Services United Way Worldwide World Food Program Salvation Army Doctors Without Borders ...Read More

The last 10 years has been ever evolving ever changing world for writers and authors. Many questions arise when one looks at the direction the world of publishing is moving in. The biggest question: "When everyone is giving it away for free how are writers and authors going to make a living?" Here are the list of the 5 (we’ll say they're new) challenges for writers that came into full swing during the past decade. These are the 5 new technology ...Read More

If you want to give to a great cause this holiday season please consider giving to the Smile Train. It is an organization that does plastic surgery on cleft lips of children from the 3rd world. It only costs $250 for a procedure. The doctors donate their time, and the children and their families would spend a life time saving up for the surgery otherwise. You can make a smaller donation than $250 of course. Give what you can. It ...Read More

Help us spread the word! Post this icon on your site, facebook,  or myspace! Just post the code below and tell everyone about our new Poetry Everyday service. Let people know they can get a poem everyday by email or rss. Post the icon and help us out. <a href="http://www.everywritersresource.com/poemeveryday/"> <img border="0" src="http://www.everywritersresource.com/poemeveryday/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/everydaypoetrylog.jpg" width="323" height="401"></a></p> <p align="center"> ...Read More

You can get a classic short story everyday from EWR. Now we are publishing short stories from authors who founded and perfected the form. You can now get a classic short story everyday by Rss or email. If you are a writer these stories are a must read. They are the best of the best from classic authors. It's not always easy to find the good short stories on the internet, now you can get them in your inbox everyday! Our ...Read More

Here is a list from out literary magazines warehouse of print magazines that take online. We think it is important to bring our readers (made up of so many writers) resources that best benefit them. Writers are busy (just like everyone else) and saving money on postage and time on preparation, we feel, is important. We hope that this is helpful to all of you. http://www.everywritersresource.com/literarymagazines/category/print-magazineonline-submissions/ ...Read More

We enjoyed these and hope that you will. I'm having trouble finding more interesting short story videos on youtube. If you find a well done one, please post the link in the comments and we'll add it to this page. ...Read More

EWR brings you Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll on Twitter. We are going to tweet the whole book. Follow us, and read the classic 140 characters at a time: http://twitter.com/anwonderland We hope to finish the novel with in 2 months. ...Read More

The last 10 years has been ever evolving ever changing world for writers and authors. Many questions arise when one looks at the direction the world of publishing is moving in. The biggest question: "When everyone is giving it away for free how are writers and authors going to make a living?" Here are the list of the 5 (we’ll say they're new) challenges for writers that came into full swing during the past decade. These are the 5 new technology ...Read More

Joseph Pulitzer This is list of the Pulitzer Poetry winners for the last decade. We hope you watch these videos and get to know them a little. It is a look at the last decade and some of the poets who impacted the craft. We labor under the opinion that all poets should be rock stars. They should be well paid, sought after, and well-known. Take a look at these poets, get to know them, and of course buy their ...Read More

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. The site works a lot like digg for writers. Take a ...Read More

Here are 107 contemporary short fiction writers I feel you should read. I've looked around the web, and I didn't see a large list of short story writer recommendations. I would really like to add to this list. I have picked contemporary  short story writers who are "the best" of today or of at least the last 50 years. It's not comprehensive of course, but if you are looking to read some short fiction writers who are at the top ...Read More

Indy Journal Award: For New Literary Magazines. We are giving out 10 Indy Journal Awards to 10 new literary magazines. The award will be a review of your magazine on our site (with much praise). We will give each literary magazine a page to help boost your traffic, and we'll send out the list of pages to our mailing list. The criteria for entry: 1. The literary magazine must not be over a year old (founded after July 18, 2008). The judgment criteria: 1. ...Read More

Ralph Waldo Emerson THE POET. A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray: They overleapt the horizon's edge, Searched with Apollo's privilege; Through man, and woman, and sea, and star ...Read More

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.  ~Rainer Maria Rilke ...Read More

Mark Twain (1835-1910) The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~Mark Twain ...Read More

A great early look at Ray Bradbury. We found this on the Internet Archive. It is listed in the public domain, but the look at the author is outstanding. It includes his short story: "Dial Double Zero." The movie was made by David L. Wolper. I enjoyed and hope you will. ...Read More

Here is section on literary journal from the book Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli  The earl of Beaconsfield. The book was published in 1881. We thought it might be interesting to get a 100 year old take on the state and purpose of literary journals. LITERARY JOURNALS. When writers were not numerous, and readers rare, the unsuccessful author fell insensibly into oblivion; he dissolved away in his own weakness. If he committed the private folly of printing what no one would ...Read More

"On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature" from The Art of Writing and Other Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art.  All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coarseness of the strings and ...Read More

The following is taken from the book Short Story Writing: A Practical Treatise on the Art of  the Story Story by Charles Raymond Barrett, Ph. B. (1898) The short story was first recognized as a distinct class of literature in 1842, when Poe's criticism of Hawthorne called attention to the new form of fiction. Short story writing had, however, been practiced for many years before that: perhaps the narratives of Homer and the tales of the first ...Read More

This is the first in a series of articles we are running On Writing. We thought it would be interesting to let authors from the past do the talking. This is Mark Twain's words about the Humorous story. We hope you enjoy it. I do not claim that I can tell a story as it ought to be told. I only claim to know how a story ought to be told, for I have been almost daily in the company ...Read More

If you are buying a collection of poetry for someone and you're not sure what to get, these poets are usually a good bet. We've listed both contemporaries and modern poets we fell can't miss. Usually most people who enjoy poetry will get some enjoyment out of these wonderful poets. If the person is a writer, you most certainly cannot go wrong looking into the these writers. Contemporaries Stephen Dunn Billy Collins Rita Dove Gary Soto Allen Ginsberg From the past TS Eliot e.e. Cummings Wallace Stevens Carl Sandburg Emily Dickinson ...Read More

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The picture above is a shot from the moon of the earth taken on the Apollo 8 mission by Bill Anders in 1968. Below is what the moon landing coverage would be like if it happened today, from Slate. I love the twitter board from CNN, if you look careful you can see someone has written "Those space suits look gay!" HA! Today's coverage at its best. You know, after writing my last post, when I saw this, I just had to post ...Read More

Forty years ago a 38 year old American pilot stepped out of a ship that was really no more than a tin can, and not only the man but the whole of our country soared. America was in its heyday remember. Our factories were booming. People were making a very good living on a one person income, and our cities were still safe and full of people. For example the population of Cleveland Ohio (a heavy industrial city) was 750,879 ...Read More

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Many of you may not have seen Eureka the Scifi Channel original production. The show is about to start its 4th season, and if you haven't watched, you should. Season 1 episode 1 is above, provided by Hulu. The show is excellent. It is based in a government run and owned town that is inhabited almost entirely by geniuses. Every week they create another disaster from all of the tech scientists and quantum physicists making mistakes. Sheriff Jack Carter is the ...Read More

Edward Collier's painting "trompe l'oeil painting" from 1699. We've had this poll on our site for awhile now, and I thought that maybe putting it on the blog would be a little better than on our message boards or on a poll site (that didn't work!). Anyway, the poll is below, please vote. The reason I ask this question is simple. Newspapers are having so much trouble now that I believe they should do just about everything they can to get things ...Read More

A child reading in Brookline Booksmith, an independent bookstore in Boston, Massachusetts. Used under Wiki Commons Attribution 2.0. Nicholas D. Kristof two-time Pulitzer Prize winner from the NY Times has come up with a list of "The Best Kids' Books Ever." I do not mean to dispute Mr. Kristof, but I have to stay that there seems to a bit of a disconnect between his list and reality. He has listed the Hardy Boys, The Prince and Pauper, and Anne ...Read More

Drive-ins are dying. If you haven't gone to your local drive in in a while, go! If you have kids a drive in is a great place for taking the family. You can sit outside, you can have fun. I go to the drive-in about 5 times every summer. I'd liked to go more often, but it's not always easy to find the time. If you go, support the drive-in. A couple really good reasons to go. First they are far ...Read More

There seems to be and uproar over Amazon removing all those George Orwell books from Kindles. The company simply pushed a button and zapped all the copies that had been sold from their customers. Now people and groups are fighting for more rights for the buyer. You can read more about this in this NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/technology/companies/27amazon.html I think this brings up a good question, with all the talk of copyrights, where does ownership rights begin? Multibillion dollar industries are ...Read More

Yes, I know I've already written an entry about the drive in, but I went to the drive in. So I figured I would at least review a the two movies I saw. Transformers 2 The first was Transformers 2. Ugh, it was an awful movie. Honestly, this movie does not make any sense. It's hard to follow, and it's characters are flat at best. The only good things about this movie was Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf. Fox had a pretty ...Read More

Reuters is running a story titled "Micheal Jackson Gets More Bizarre After Death." This is the only entry I'll write about this. I have a 15 year old son, and I was trying to explain to him the other day what all the hype over Michael Jackson was. There is really no frame of reference for someone who has grown up, like my son, in a world so fragmented by the media and the internet. In December of 1983 when ...Read More