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College Publications

  • "The Banyan is published by Clackamas Community College. This publication is an interdisciplinary, campus-wide electronic journal highlighting faculty-nominated student projects of exceptional value and judged to represent excellent work in any field/subject of study."
  • "The contents of Between the Lines magazine represents the life of our region and the students of South Arkansas Community College."
  • ChannelMarker Literary Magazine, produced annually by students at Tidewater Community College.
  • GENESIS: Student Literary Magazine "Founded in 1972, and made possible by a grant from the School of Liberal Arts and the Student Activities Fund, genesis is published in the spring and fall by a student editorial board and showcases the fiction, poetry, and artwork of IUPUI students."
  • Highbeams "is a literary journal published and posted twice a year at Beloit College."
  • Inscape, Pasadena City Colleges's literary magazine, highlights the best work produced by students in Creative Writing courses.
  • Metamorphoses is a literary magazine, produced annually, by English and art students, and faculty at Cerro Coso Community College. It contains student works, from poetry and short stories, to photography and sculpture.
  • Miambiance: A Magazine of Arts and Literature "is published once a year by students currently enrolled in credit courses in Miami-Dade Community College’s Kendall Campus."
  • Millennium Magazine: Formerly Writer's Corner "Millennium magazine is the undergraduate student literary magazine of Virginia Commonwealth University."
  • Mirage Literary and Arts Magazine is produced by Cochise College students each academic year.
  • Otterbein College Department of English - Student Literary Magazine "is an annual magazine composed of student poems, essays, short stories, and plays. The Quiz and Quill staff is made up of Otterbein students who decide what goes into the magazine."
  • Susurrus: The Sacramento City College Literary Journal "Each spring the students of Sacramento City College produce an annual literary journal, Susurrus, a 150-page book of excellent student writing, art and photography."

Professional Publications

  • American Life in Poetry "is a free weekly column for newspapers and online publications featuring a poem by a contemporary American poet and a brief introduction to the poem by Ted Kooser. The sole mission of this project is to promote poetry, and we believe we can add value for newspaper and online readers by doing so."
  • The Antigonish Review "is a quarterly literary journal published by St. Francis Xavier University. The Review features poetry, fiction, reviews and critical articles from all parts of Canada, the US and overseas, using original graphics to enliven the format."
  • The Atlantic Online
  • The Backwaters Press site provides information about the Backwaters Prize, the Omaha prize, books the press has published, author bios and examples of work from their books. Among the site's links is The Poetry Menu, a calendar of local readings, discussions, and workshops.

  • Blackbird, "a joint venture of the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University and New Virginia Review," is an online journal of literature and the arts, including poetry, fiction, non-fiction, a gallery, and features.

  • The Blue Moon Review "(founded as The Blue Penny Quarterly) has been published continuously since early 1994, making it one of the oldest living literary magazines online. In fact, rumor has it we were the first online literary magazine in the world, and while we think that's true we could be wrong."
  • Council of Literary Presses and Magazines "serves one of the most active segments of American arts and culture: the independent publishers of exceptional fiction, poetry and prose. Literary magazines and presses accomplish the backstage work of American literature: discovering new writers; supporting mid-career writers; publishing the creative voices of communities underrepresented in the mainstream commercial culture; and preserving literature for future readers by keeping books in print."
  • Mississippi Review "is a national literary magazine published twice yearly in print, and quarterly on the web. Among the writers MR has published in recent years are Jamaica Kinkaid, Derek Wolcott, Tom Drury, John Barth, Rick Bass, Padgett Powell, Barry Hannah, Martin Amis, Roddy Doyle, Will Self, Margaret Atwood, Robert Olen Butler, Susan Minot, Thom Jones, Paul Auster, Kazuo Ishiguro, Tomaz Salamun, William Gibson, and hundreds of others. While we continue to publish well-known writers, we are also committed to finding new work in fiction and poetry by emerging writers."
  • Morpo Review is "an electronic literary journal published on a quarterly basis."
  • Oyster Boy Review  is a "print and online journal of fiction and poetry."
  • The Pittsburgh Quarterly Online is "an electronic magazine for creative fiction, poetry & nonfiction."
  • Ploughshares: the Literary Journal at Emerson College
  • Prairie Schooner "is an international literary quarterly published with the support of the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Nebraska Press."
  • ReSoundings is "a peer reviewed interactive hypermedia periodical, publishes articles that effectively utilize print, graphic, music, and other text formats."

Writers' Tools

  • Modern American Poetry "MAPS is a comprehensive learning environment and scholarly forum for the study of modern American poetry. Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2001 by the Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."
  • Modern Language Association is the official site of the MLA and contains information on MLA documentation style.
  • Nebraska Center for Writers is "an on-line resource for writers of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, providing information,  advice, and links of interest to writers and readers across the state and beyond."
  • Poets & Writers, Inc.
  • Proper Manuscript Format by William Shunn gives suggestions for typing your submissions.
  • Twentieth Century Poetry in English by Professor Eiichi Hishikawa
    Faculty of Letters, Kobe University.
  • Writers Online by the New York State Writers Institute contains background information about a variety of contemporary writers.
  • Writing Resources lists additional links for writers and instructors. 

Organizations for Writers

  • The Association of Writers and Writing Programs
  • The Academy of American Poets "was founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. The largest organization in the country dedicated to the art of poetry, the Academy sponsors programs nationally."
  • AG : The Authors Guild : Est. 1912
  • Wired for Books "For many years, most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. The one-on-one interviews typically lasted 30 to 45 minutes and then had to be edited down to a two-minute radio show. Wired for Books is proud to make these important oral documents publicly available for the first time in their entirety. Listen to the voices of many of the greatest writers of the twentieth century."