Reading & Writing Resources

There are hundreds of possible links I could include here as I procrastinate and lurch from one thing to the other. These are the ones I genuinely love, use and return to again and again.

Reading

• Reading for Writers (blog)
• Reading Like a Writer (book link)
• Longform
• Book Slut
• Maud Newton
• Ready Steady Book
• Reading While Female
• A Year of Feminist Classics
• Short Story Reader
• The Reading Experience
• How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One (book link)

Writing

• Advice to Writers
• Poets & Writers
• Draft
• Ph.d in Creative Writing
• The Big Thing
• Story Fanatic
• Hunger Mountain Journal: Craft Essays
• World Wide Words
• Otherwordly: a blog about strange and lovely words. J’adore.
• Typetrigger
• Presents of Mind
• SMITH magazine: Six-Word Memoirs

‘Literary’ Magazines

• The Quarterly Conversation
• Glimmer Train, Writers Ask
• The Rumpus
• Fifty-Two Stories
• Narrative Magazine
• The New Yorker
• The New York Review of Books
• The Millions

Author Interviews (or, Living Vicariously)

• The Paris Review: Interviews
• The Days of Yore
• Ph.D in Creative Writing: the How to Become a Writer Interview Series
• Daily Routines: how writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days
• Write Place, Write Time

Resources

• Duotrope
• Poets & Writers
• Publisher’s Weekly
• Emerging Writers Network (has an extensive link list to literary and online journals)
• Open Culture