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Horror Writers Association (HWA), writers' organization for the horror genre and sponsors of the Stoker Awards.
SFF Net: designed to support fast-moving, intelligent conversation about genre literature of all kinds. It's the place for authors, editors, readers, and publishers to get together to discuss books, stories, the art and craft of popular fiction, and all aspects of the literary life.
Writing-World.com, a site for writers (includes a newsletter, feature articles, columnists, submission tips, etc.).
Broad Universe: an organization that encourages, promotes, and celebrates science fiction, fantasy, and horror written by women. Includes useful advice and tips on writing and promotion.
The Carl Brandon Society: an organization that works to increase racial and ethnic diversity in the production of and audience for speculative fiction.
Authorlink!: A news, information, and marketing community for editors, literary agents and writers.
Absolute Write: a magazine featuring market listings, publishing news, writer's resources and an active forum community.
Critters Workshop: an online workshop/critique group for writers of sf, fantasy, and horror.
Codex Writers' Workshop: an online critique group and forum for genre writers with at least one professional sale.
Online General-Fiction Workshops:
Critique Circle, a many-featured Web-based workshop for writers of all sorts.
In-Person SF, F, & H Workshops:
Cascade Writers is a three-day workshop in the Pacific Northwest.
The Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop: the original Clarion, held for six weeks every summer at UC San Diego.
The Clarion West Writers Workshop: the prestigious yearly workshop that brings promising SF/F writers together with seasoned authors and editors.
The Clarion South Writers Workshop, bringing the Clarion workshop experience to Australia (mostly for Australians but a few foreigners too).
Odyssey: The Fantasy Writing Workshop, at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, is a six-week intensive summer writing workshop for writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.
Viable Paradise: a unique one-week residential workshop in writing and selling commercial science fiction and fantasy. Takes place yearly on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Publishers Weekly, one of the go-to resources for news in publishing.
Publishers Lunch, a summary service of moves, news, and insights from the professional trade publishing community.
Locus Magazine, the trade publication of the science fiction and fantasy community. Includes interviews, articles, tips, reviews, and news on sales, publications, and awards.
Writer's Digest, a magazine geared to beginning writers. Includes articles, tips, techniques, and business information for a general -- rather than SFF -- audience.
Writer Gazette: a weekly newsletter and Web site with many articles and resources for writers of all sorts.
AgentQuery, a searchable database of literary agents including genres of interest and contact information.
SFWA's "Writer Beware" information, which covers all sorts of scams and pitfalls new writers are susceptible to, including agents who don't really agent, publishers who don't really publish, etc. Read this if you have been approached by an agency you haven't heard of that is soliciting your work for representation.
Annotated guide to literary agents and those who call themselves agents, part of the useful Preditors & Editors site (see below).
Preditors & Editors: a guide to publishers and writing services for serious writers.
Agent Turnaround Times, a Livejournal community for tracking and comparing agent reply times.
SF author Tara K. Harper's advice and answers about contracts, agents, and the publishing industry.
Writing:
Pitfalls of Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy, General Useful Information, & Other Opinionated Comments by SF author Vonda N. McIntyre (winner of the 1997 Nebula Award for best novel).
Vonda McIntyre's manuscript-preparation tips.
Author William Shunn's manuscript-preparation guide.
SF author Tara K. Harper's essays and articles on fiction writing, editors, writing groups, etc.
Forward Motion: Holly Lisle's Writing Pages: Information about writing, selling and publishing fiction from a full-time writer---writing for a living, beginner how-to's, feedback and discussions, finding an agent, how to quit the day job to write, reviews of recommended fiction and non-fiction books, editorials and more.
Author Elmore Leonard's article on writing transparently (recommended by Nalo Hopkinson, an award-winning author who's one of our former Resident Editors).
New York Times Bestselling Author Tobias S. Buckell's Joe Blow Neo-Pro columns on writing, which originally appeared in Speculations.
Patricia C. Wrede's Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions.
Orson Scott Card's essays on writing.
Fiction Writer's Connection advice on Synopsis Writing.
Critiquing:
Critter's Workshop advice on how to critique gently but effectively.
The art of critique and how to succeed in an online writing workshop, from Victory Crayne.
Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner's SF Workshop Lexicon, a list of real-life SF workshop terms encountered at Clarion and elsewhere.
Query Letters and Synopses:
Query Shark, a great way to learn about query-letter writing. Janet Reid, agent and author of the Query Shark blog, says: "You can send a query letter to the Shark. It might get posted and critiqued. It might not. You'll know either way. You can send a revised query letter after the critique. It will be posted and critiqued as well."
AgentQuery's tutorial on query letter-writing.
Beneath the Cover's article on query letter formatting.
Miscellaneous:
The Writer's Pocket Tax Guide for freelance writers, written by a lawyer and updated yearly.
Hugo award-winning author John Scalzi's advice to new writers about money.
Various name generators for writers of SF & F.
The Everlasting Book of Names is a random name generator for 32-bit Windows systems.
10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained by Brad Templeton.
Authorlink!'s Writer's Resources, including publisher guidelines, insights from agents, editors, and authors, a list of writing contests and conferences, editorial services, and more.
Places for Writers, a directory of markets, residencies, grants, competitions, and publishers.
WritersNet, a general-interest resource for writers, editors, publishers, and agents.
Author James Stevens-Arce's links for writers.
Duotrope's Digest: Thousands of market listings for various genres, lengths, and media, frequently updated.
Ralan.com features extensive, up-to-date market listings as well as lots of other information and many, many links for authors.
StoryPilot's Science Fiction & Fantasy Market Engine is a search engine for markets--you can specify genre, paying/non-paying, special interests, etc.
Douglas Smith's Foreign Market List, listing reprint and original markets outside the English-speaking world.
rec.arts.sf.written: high-volume newsgroup for discussion of SF/F books and publishing
rec.arts.sf.reviews: for reviews of SF/F books
misc.writing: general writers' newsgroup
alt.fiction.original: for writers of fiction
rec.arts.sf.composition: discussion of writing speculative fiction
The Sock Monkey Parade, a writers' group composed of workshoppers and workshop graduates.
SONAR is a writer's tool that will track your submissions to various markets, keeping a history per story and per market so you can see what you sent where. You can also include comments on every story, market, and submission. SONAR was created by workshop member Simon Haynes, comes in a PC version only, and is free.
Or try SAMM for the same purpose (Windows or DOS).
Funds for Writers: Funds for Writers provides a source for struggling writers seeking funds for their dreams.
To suggest an addition or update to this list, e-mail support@sff.onlinewritingworkshop.com.
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