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Academic Resources

General Resources

Creative Writing

Local Resources

• Hub City Writers Project

A non-profit independent press and literary arts association, Spartanburg-based Hub City publishes local writers, provides both a virtual and real community for South Carolina writers, and has become a national model for community-based writers programs all over the nation.

• South Carolina Arts Commissions Literary Arts Page

Contests, grants, projects, events... if it has to do with the South Carolina literary scene, you can get the scoop here.

• The South Carolina Poetry Initiative

A statewide organization that promotes and celebrates the reading, writing, and performing of poetry in South Carolina. Sponsors a number of workshops, retreats, and contests for poets.

• South Carolina Writers Workshop

A literary arts organization serving both new and established writers, the SCWW hosts a major writers conference every fall in Myrtle Beach, and the SCWW website, with its blogs, chatrooms, and online publication of members work, is a great place to connect with other writers.

Tools and Publishing

• Agent Query

A free, searchable database of literary agents.

• Associated Writing Programs (AWP)
• Duotrope.com

An incredibly comprehensive list of places to publish your work, updated daily, plus lots of nifty data and search tools, and the option of creating your own submissions log make this site indispensable.

• PublishingQuestions.com

A crash course in the hows, whys and wherefores of getting published.

• Writer's Market

A venerable, nearly indispensable resource for writers looking to publish their work in any genre.

Inspiration

• National Novel Writing Month

Ever had a great idea for a novel but struggled to get it off the ground? The folks at NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) will happily hold your feet to the fire.

• The Story Starter

Need a prompt to get you started? How about 340 million of them?

• WritingFix.com

Is your muse being cranky today? If so, butter it up with a writing prompt from this clever site, which allows you to tailor your prompt to your mood, your interests, etc.

Great Sites

• Literary Agent Jeff Kleinmans blog

"I'll be damned," says one USC MFA student in creative writing, "if this blog post of his isn't the best thing I ever saw for advice on how to submit material to agents and decipher/handle their replies."

• Media Bistro

One of the best publishing/media-related sites out there. Keep up with all the latest industry news, find out about journalism and freelance gigs, and network with other writers from around the world.

• Poets & Writers Magazine

Want to find a contest? A comprehensive resource for info on conferences, contests, advice, jobs, etc. for creative writers.

• The Red Room

A great comprehensive compendium of all things literary.

• Rejecter.blogspot.com

Feeling down about all those rejection slips? Take heart by dipping into this blog by an assistant at a big literary agency, who writes about the many manuscripts (95% of whats submitted to her) that she rejects... and then take note of the tips she offers about how to get your work out of the reject pile.

• Writer's Digest

Tips, articles, interactive Q&A, prompts, online writing critiques, blogs, and more from one of the nations leading publications for writers of all stripes.

Literature

Rhetoric

Select Journals

Websites with Journal Listings and Indexes

• American Rhetoric
• Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS)
• Communication Abstracts