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• General:

  • Alabama Bound: A Book and Author Fair - Celebrating Books and Authors.

  • BitBooks Web Fiction Guide

  • Library of Congress

  • Sensible Solutions for getting happily published

  • Southern Scribe - This site is an excellent resource on writing in the South, including reviews and news.

  • Writer's Audio Shop - Publishes live recordings of the country's top writers, literary agents and editors teaching the art, business, and craft of writing.

• Awards:

  • Lillian Smith Book Awards

• Writer's Groups:

  • Alabama State Poetry Society

  • Alabama Writers' Conclave

  • Alabama Writers' Forum

  • Creative Writers of Montgomery

• Writer's Conferences:

  • Alabama Writer's Conclave - The annual conference for 2001 will be held August 2-4 at the University of Montevallo.

  • Alabama Writers Symposium - Photographs from the recent conference held May 4-6, 2000, in Monroeville, Alabama.

• Reference & Research Sites:

  • Alabama Virtual Library

  • Biographical Dictionary. Searchable.

  • Electronic Text Center - University of Virginia. Online texts. Many searchable.

  • The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr.. Full text on line.

  • Familiar Quotations: Bartlett. Searchable.

  • The Internet's Best Electronic Reference Desk

  • Internet Public Library.

  • Merriam-Webster Online: The Language Center. Includes searchable dictionary and thesaurus.

  • Roget's Thesaurus. Searchable.

• Writing Forums and Directories:

  • Yahoo's Creative Writing Directory. Includes a link to Yahoo's Creative Writing message board.

  • Webcrawler's Books and Literature Directory

  • Excite's Books and Literature Directory

Setting
(Elements of Fiction Writing)

Beginnings, Middles & Ends
(Elements of Fiction Writing)

Scene and Structure
(Elements of Fiction Writing)

Conflict, Action and Suspense
(Elements of Fiction Writing)

Characters and Viewpoint
(Elements of Fiction Writing)

Dialogue
(Elements of Fiction Writing)

Description
(Elements of Fiction Writing)

Handbook Short Story Writing

Handbook of Short Story Writing, Vol. II

The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life from
Prohibition through World War Two