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Fiction and creative writing resources published on the Internet.

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Personal websites of creative writers:



Marian Allen


Marian Allen
Her site provides a sampling of her stories, which range from humorous to sci-fi, mystery to "mainstream."

Oliver Benjamin


Oliver Benjamin
Oliver Benjamin's site contains a diverse array of his creative work, including screenplays, newspaper articles, novels and poetry, in addition to his music and art.

Thomas Christopher


Thomas Christopher
Thomas Christopher has had his short stories published in various anthologies and literary journals, and makes a few of these works available on his site.

Robert Gollagher


Robert Gollagher
Australian author Robert Gollagher has made three of his novels available for free online. While one of his stories is considered to be a contemporary fairytale, his other novels deal with the more weighty themes of death, justice and desire.

Tanya Henderson's Defeating Silence


Tanya Henderson
A "novel opera" by Tanya Henderson. And she really means that in the fullest sense of the words.

Tania Hershman


Tania Hershman
Founder and editor of The Short Review, Tania has had over 20 of her stories published in various journals, and several of her works have also been broadcast on the radio. Check her site to find out the latest on her upcoming publication of short stories and a new podcast of her writing.

Andrew B. Hurvitz


Andrew B. Hurvitz
A series of short stories and blogs by Andrew B. Hurvitz.

Joe Landsdale


Joe Landsdale
A "mojo storyteller" from Texas, martial artist and author Joe Landsdale's writing blurs the distinctions between horror, humor, western, sci-fi and suspense.

Adam Maxwell


Adam Maxwell
Adam Maxwell's site provides a sampling of the author's thrilling flash fiction as well as essays he has written on the genre of flash fiction. Adam also provides excellent audio podcasts of his work.

Notes From a Room


Notes From a Room
Read the prose, poetry, and preferred quotes of an anonymous online writer.

Joshua Poteat


Joshua Poteat
A southern poet who also creates beautiful light boxes using various found materials.

Raging Pistachio


Raging Pistachio
Nicola Brown warns us that her writing comes from "what one would call a disturbed mind" and is not suitable for anyone under the age of 15, although she includes several short works from when she was around age 8.

Kevin Shamel's Shameless Creations


Shameless Creations
Kevin Shamel puts up a lot of fun content for you to check out on his site in addition to his written materials (things like "weird vintage photos" and films he's made). He also encourages visitors to his site to add to his lists of fake band names and favorite words.

Spearfish Lake Tales


Spearfish Lake Tales
Describing himself as a "compulsive writer," Wes Boyd offers up 6 of his books online and plans to add more (he has twenty waiting to be posted). He writes on a variety of topics, from dogsled racer wannabes to train crews battling a huge fire, and a couple that falls in love during a nomadic aerial adventure

Michael Swanwick


Michael Swanwick
Widely published in a variety of magazines and books, several of Michael Swanwick's fiction and non-fiction works are available for free on his site.

Adam Wasserman


Adam Wasserman
A place where you can find the plays, stories and novels of Adam Wasserman.

Other creative writing websites of interest:



Sun Dog Stories


Sun Dog Stories
Sun Dog Stories "intend[s] to honor and expand" the original ideal of the internet as a place for "an open exchange for ideas and information" by providing the visitors to their site with free art, music and literature.

Every Day Fiction


Every Day Fiction
An online magazine that offers "a daily helping of fine fiction in bite-size doses." Sign up to receive a new flash fiction story in your inbox each day.

Bear Parade


Bear Parade
A quirky and fun online lit zine.

Free Online Novels


Free Online Novels
A lengthy listing of free novels available for reading online.

The Boston Review


The Boston Review
A literary magazine with a political bent.

The Mississippi Review


The Mississippi Review
A literary journal available in print and pdf format.

The Modern Review


The Modern Review
Mainly a physically published literary journal, this magazine makes some of its content available online.

nthposition


nthposition
An independent publisher of poetry online.

Double Dare Press


Double Dare
A lit mag you can submit your creative writing works to or check out the work of others.

Small Spiral Notebook


Small Spiral Notebook
A literary e-zine that's very nicely laid out. It no longer accepts submissions, but still has a good deal of content up.

The Summerset Review


The Summerset Review
An online literary magazine with a contest for the best written review of a work published on their site.

Hack Writers


Hack Writers
An international writer's magazine.

Lit Line


Lit Line
An extensive listing of online literary journals.

Clapboard House

Clapboard House
A literary magazine and provider of "artful short stories and poems."

Hyperion


Hyperion
An online sci-fi story in hypertext.

Verbatim: The Language Quarterly


Verbatim
The content is strictly non-fiction articles dealing with any and all aspects of language. This is undoubtedly a website of interest for anyone with a passion for words.

Writers Block


Writers Block
Writers Block is a web-based magazine filled with information about communication and documentation.

English Matters


English Matters
George Mason University's online periodical for "teachers and students of English who are questioning and creating new texts and pedagogies on the web to browse through, linger over, and contribute to this collection of essays, exhibits, and performances."

Ink Collective


Ink Collective

Ink Collective was a quarterly literary journal that sought to bring together a variety of divergent views and thoughts based on one given theme. It isn't currently in print, but issues can still be downloaded. The collections of writing and illustrations are great.

DIY Book Festival


DIY Book Festival
The DIY Book Festival is actually a part of a larger DIY convention that focuses on teaching creative entrepreneurs how to create and market films, books, cds and zines.

Zine World


Zine World
A magazine about magazines. They mainly review independent publications: zines, books, comics and newsletters, but also tackle such diverse materials as spoken word recordings, DVDs and posters.

Believer Magazine


The Believer
The Believer,a monthly magazine, features great book reviews, interviews, and other writings. They're also big on giving "people and books the benefit of the doubt" and not having any set length guidelines.

The Bellevue Literary Review


Bellevue Review
The Bellevue Literary Review is "a journal of humanity and the human experience." As far as I can tell it's also the only literary journal that deals exclusively with issues related to "the human body, illness, health and healing."

Brick


Brick Magazine
A literary magazine distributed throughout North America that features authors and artists from all over the world. They make some of the content included in their print version available online. Be sure to check out their online archive for more great writing.

Granta


Granta
A literary magazine that has published the works of several well respected authors such as Arundhati Roy, Sylvia Plath and Ian McEwan. They prefer to publish previously undiscovered and highly talented emerging writers of fiction and non-fiction.

Hobart


Hobart
A publisher of minibooks and a print literary journal, the web-version offers short stories for you to read and enjoy. Check out the great photo essay included in their travel issue.

Alimentum Journal


Alimentum Journal
A literary journal with a focus on food. (Delicious.)

Hack Writers


Hack Writers
An international writer's magazine that seeks to publish good writing, fiction or nonfiction.

Places to find links to more online literary magazines:



The Boston Review's Literary Links


The Boston Review

New Pages


New Pages directory

Lit Line


Lit Line

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The ONLINE RESOURCE PAGES are relevant links my intern has gathered for me. Use at your own discretion and risk. We have not evaluated any claims or used any of the paid services, workshops, etc. We are only attempting to organize Internet content for relevant browsing and networking purposes. The comments made by myself and my employees are based on our individual subjective impressions of how the website presented its content and its apparent relevance compared to other pages we found in the limited time we had to search. Our comments are not an endorsement. We are not liable for external content. Please email comments and problems with links to olivia@mosaicartsupply.com

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