Jane Eaton Hamilton

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Interesting literary links:

www.writersunion.ca

Founded in 1973, The Writers' Union of Canada is a national organization of professional writers of books for the general public.

The Union works
* to advance conditions for all writers,
* to unite writers for the advancement of their common interest, and
* to foster writing in Canada.

The Union provides a number of services and information for members and non-members.

Highly recommended.

www.poets.ca

The League of Canadian Poets sponsors the prestigious Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. As well, they provide a list of varied services to their members and to Canadian poets in general.

Recommended.

www.poetsandwriters.com

Poets and Writers has an extensive on-line service, but also a great magazine. The best US resource for writers. Teachers' guide/classifieds/publishing advice/contests/a terrific list of literary links/directory of writers etc.

Highly recommended.

www.zoetrope.com

Zoetrope is a litmag and on-line service provided by Francis Ford-Coppala. There are lots of good services for writers, including an on-line workshop and discussion group.

Recommended.

www.sfo.com/~sarapeyton/litmags.html

A list of literary magazines.

www.salon.com

A general-interest, on-line magazine with lots of daily interest in many areas along with an on-line forum.

Recommended.

www.readerville.com

An on-line bookstore and writing forum.

Highly recommended.

www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ab297/contests.html

A list of mostly Canadian literary contests run by the writer E. Russell Smith. Kept nicely up-to-date.

Recommended.

www.writersdigest.com

Writer's Digest magazine and on-line resource. We're all familiar with their books, but this on-line site has plenty to explore.

On-line sites for the book reviews:

www.publishersweekly.com

NY Times Book Review

Quill and Quire

TLS: www.the-tls.co.uk/main.asp

Other sites of interest:

. Atlantic Unbound
· Bartleby
· Beatrice
· BoldType
· Bomb
· BookForum
· Borzoi Reader
· Guardian Books
· New Republic Online
· The New Yorker
· New York Review of Books
· New York Times Books
· PEN Journal
· Poetry Daily
· Poets.org
· Publishers Lunch
· Publishers Weekly
· Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
· Slate
· Voice Literary Supplement
· Washington Post Book World

Have any tips? Send me on-line addresses that have been useful to you as a writer and I'll post them here so others can enjoy them too.

page updated Feb 2007

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