Resources

Websites for Writers and Visual Artists

Welcome to our resources page. To discuss adding your website to our list you can reach us at [email protected]

Writers’ Marketplaces

• Reedsy: We’re changing the way books are published by giving authors and publishers access to talented professionals, powerful tools, and free educational content.

The Writers College

• The Writers College: Offering Top Quality Courses all Over the World
• New Zealand Writers College
• SA Writers College
• The UK Writers College

Opportunities for Visual Artists

• C4E: A searchable online guided divided into art and photography.

Opportunities for Writers

• Funds for Writers: We emphasize finding money to make writing a realistic career.
• The Now Novel Scholarship.
• NewWriters.org.uk – Regular writing competitions with £1,000+ cash prizes, up-to-date listings of other organisations’ writing competitions, and resources, tips and information for writers of fiction and poetry.
• New Pages
• The Literature Centre
• National Association of Writers in Education UK: NAWE aims to put creativity at the heart of education. We believe that everyone should have contact with practising artists, and especially writers. By joining NAWE you can help us to promote that ideal – and benefit from it.
• Richie Billing: An In-depth Guide To Writing Prose – this guide offers lots of useful insights into the different approaches to prose writing, with practical tips and advice on how to improve your craft. 
• The Writing District
• Christopher Fielden: Competitions, writerly insight and much more.
• Duotrope – Lists of Literary Journals and Comps
• Winning Writers: Named one of Writer’s Digest’s top 101 Websites for Writers in 2022.
• If you are looking for a writing job, you can find a lot of vacancies on https://jooble.org/
• Paper True – Resources for Writers
• Australian Writers’ Resource

Software

• The Novel Factory: The Novel Factory helps guide new writers through the novel writing process – while completing your first manuscript.

Literary Journals

• Superstition Review is the online literary magazine produced by creative writing and web design students at Arizona State University.
• Neon Books: A Literary Magazine and Chapbook Press
• Blue Mountain Review

Other Classes and Workshops

• UC San Diego: Extended Studies.
• Manchester Writing School.
• The Novelry: High Quality Courses and Coaching
• International Writers’ Collective
• Online Creative Writing Courses – Creative Writing Ink UK
• Australian Writers’ Centre – Ignite your creativity

Publishers

• Dystopia Stories / Almond Press
• Pawners Paper

Publicists

• The Literary Lobbyist

Competitions and Submissions

• Mslexia: Welcome to the magazine for women who write.
• Name: Creative Writing Ink Short Story Competition 2023
  Country: UK
  Closing date: Sept 30th, 2023 at 4pm (GMT)
  1st prize: £1000, a free creative writing course of the winners choice and publication on our website.
  Runners-up: £200 each.
  Entry fee: £9
  Word count: 3000 words maximum.
  Open theme/subject/genre
  Link: https://creativewritingink.co.uk/competitions/creative-writing-ink-short-story-competition/ 
• Dream Quest One: Poetry and Writing Contests
• Cathy’s Comps and Calls
• Ballarat Writers

State Sponsored Sites

• Writing NSW: We’re always running online and in-person writing workshops and courses, and we also run manuscript assessments regularly and mentorships on request.
• Irish Writers Centre
• Writers SA: Online writing workshops at Writers SA To help ignite your creativity and hone your craft, Writers SA have launched online courses you can do anywhere there’s an internet connection! Tune into the live Zoom event, or access recordings afterwards to listen in your own time. This season’s program features short stories, fantasy fiction, getting published, poetry, freelancing, and much more— there’s something for writers of all genres and experience levels. Find out more:  https://writerssa.org.au/program/workshops/

• Writers WA
• The New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA)

Blogs

• Blog About Writing