Writing Resources

If you're interested in kidlit or about poetry or about how to get published...

  
this is the place where you might like to hang out sometimes.

I LOVE sharing information and love helping others. We're all on a journey together and sometimes it can be challenging sifting through allllll the writing resources online. It can feel overwhelming and hours can just widdle away as you bookmark page after page.

I am hopeful this page will be useful to you + I will update it frequently as I find more resources for writers.

Please add your own favorites or suggestions in the comment section. :-)

Enjoy!

 

Writing Resources: Queries/Publishing/Self Publishing

•  Abbot Press - Self Publishing

• Top 10 FAQs - SCBWI 

• Vook 

• Query Tracker 

•  Agent Query 

•  PubRants 

•  Query Shark

•  Red Sofa Literary, Dawn Federick's blog offering loads of useful information from submission tips to general advice. 
• Backspace: The Writer's Place, an online writers' organization 

• The Book Designer

• Editorial Anonymous - a children's book editor anonymously writes advice about submission, publication, etc.  

• Pimp My Novel - what happens after your novel/manuscript has been acquired 

• A Book Inside

•  Bo Sacks

 

Writing Resources: Improving Your Writing and Community

• Writer's Digest list of  writing resources

• Writer's Digest workshops

• Writer's Digest critique services

• Massive list of articles on writing from the Writer's Digest 
• Absolute Write 

• Word Count for Picture Books, blog post by Darcy Pattison 

• Resources for Children's Writers, by Rachelle Burk

• Critique Circle 

• My Writer's Circle 

• Writer's Cafe

• United States Copyright Office

• Poetry Daily

• Poetry Foundation 

• Poetry Society

• http://www.poets.org/

• Ron Silliman

Favorite Writing Blogs

• Kidlit 

•  Adventures in Children's Publishing

• Alice Pope's SCBWI's blog

• The Black Apple, Emily Winfield Martin

• The Writer's Workshop

• Literary Rambles

• The Renegade Writer

• Susan Says

• Pippin Properties: The Pippin Insider

• The Nerdy Book Club

• Anastasia Suen

• Easy Street Prompts - inspirational nudges

•  Goins Writer

• Janet Reid, literary agent + the shark behind the Query Shark

• Rachelle Gardner - a literary agent and her blog is FILLED with LOADS of very useful information from writing, to queries, to publishing. 

• Tin House 

• Pixel Shavings - a group blog consisting of children's books writers and illustrators. FAB!

Favorite Literary Journals

• Hunger Mountain
• Poets&Writers 
• Tin House
• The Sun Magazine

Writing Pictures Books:

• The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators 

• Picture Book professional critique services by Writer's Digest

• Anastasia Suen Online Writing Workshop

• Marisa Montes: Writing Picture Books

• Inky Girl 

• The Writer's Workshop: Picture Books

• Underdown

• Writing for Children and Teens, by Cynthia Lin

• Write 4 Kids

• Aaron Shepard's Kid Writing Page

Literary Agents and How to Find Them:

• 2013 Guide to Literary Agents,by the Writer's Digest  
• How to get an Agent

• Frolicking Through Cyberspace provides a large list of kidlit agents 
• Literary Rambles

• The Writers' Workshop blog tells how you to find an agent

• SCBWI MD/DE/WV Region gives a list of the top 20 kidlit agents in 2010 
• Pippin Properties , Inc.  
• Agent Advice from Holly McGhee, literary agent of Pippin Properties, Inc.

• Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Inc

• Book Stop Literary Agency

• The Bent Agency

• Adams Literary

• Eden Street

• Rodeen Literary Management 

• The Chudney Agency  

• Moveable Type Management 

• Association of Authors' Representatives  

   

Writing Gigs 

•  Editor and Publisher 

   All Freelance 

  Freelance Writing Gigs 

  The Market List

  Media Bistro

  Online Writing Jobs

  The Writer Gazette

  Wealthy Web Writer - tips to get more traffic to your blog