Creative Writing: Online Resources for Writers

This code of best practices helps poets understand when they and others have the right to excerpt, quote and use copyrighted material in poetry. To create this code, poets came together to articulate their common expectations.

Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Covering the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers, Grammar Girl makes complex grammar questions simple with memory tricks to help you recall and apply those troublesome grammar rules. Whether English is your first language or second language, Grammar Girl’s punctuation, style, and business tips will make you a better and more successful writer.

Welcome to the Purdue OWL. We offer over 200 free resources including: Writing and Teaching Writing, Research, Grammar and Mechanics
Style Guides, ESL (English as a Second Language), Job Search and Professional Writing

Full-text access to volumes of American Poetry prior to 1920.

Provides access to works by women and resources about women writers.

Features writing by the Dickinson family, writing about Emily Dickinson, and more.

Check out this encyclopedia for all things science fiction.

Internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion

Browse alphabetically for the definitions of various poetic terms.

Full-text access to children's literature.

For dozens, if not hundreds of major writers, poets and important English literary figures, who lived and worked in the 17th century or in the Renaissance or Medieval periods, you will find the following types of information: Quotes; Biographical Information; Indexes/Access to digitized full-text works; a number of works rendered in audio; relevant Essays/Articles (about or by); relevant Images; and Additional Resources.

Contains the full-text private papers of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain).

Browse by geographic location, topic, and more.

Archive of audio recordings containing poets reading their own work.

Excellent poetry resource containing hundreds of essays relating to poetry, biographies of more than 500 poets, nearly 2000 poems, and over 150 audio clips of poems.

Search engine that allows you to quickly find words in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.

Contains links to information on English literature.

Contains links to information on non-English literature.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a world wide collaborative of over 267,100 authors and more than 1.7 million users that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research.

Find up-to-date information on careers, contests, writers' conferences and centers, the AWP conference, and much more.

Every year, CLMP compiles a directory of literary magazines, including but not limited to our membership, called the Literary Press and Magazine Directory. The directory is useful for writers who want to submit their work to literary magazines, librarians and bookstore buyers looking to add magazines to their collections, and publishers who wish to advertise their books and magazines to an audience of avid readers.

This is a listserv. This group posts calls for submissions and contest information for writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.

Use this resource to locate publishers for your fiction and poetry. Search by genre, length of publication, royalties, and more. It includes response times, rejection information, payscale, etc. [This is subscription-based]

From Poets & Writers: Connect your poems, stories, essays, and reviews to the right audiences by researching over eight hundred literary magazines in our database. Here, you’ll find editorial policies, submission guidelines, contact information—everything you need to direct your work to the publications most amenable to your vision.

A "tally [of] the gender disparity in major literary publications and book reviews.

Writer Beware’s mission is to track, expose, and raise awareness of the prevalence of fraud and other questionable activities in and around the publishing industry.