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Useful Resources : Websites for Poets and Writers
Winning Writers encourages you to visit the following sites, chosen for their quality, respect for talent, and usefulness. Includes places to share your work and get feedback.
Business and Technical Resources
Resources to help you go online, get published, promote your work, convert currencies, get grants and jobs, and stay out of tax trouble
Essays on Poetry
Theory, craft, practical advice
Exotic Forms
Cento, chant royal, chiasmus, clerihew, conachlonn, concrete poetry...
General Resources for Writers
These sites cut across several categories, or address special niches
Haiku and Other Japanese Forms
English poems with Japanese forms and meter
Individual Poems and Poets
Some of our personal favorites
Legal Resources for Writers
Learn about trademarks, copyrights, requesting permissions and enforcing your rights. Visit this page for links to quality free legal resources like FindLaw, Nolo Press and the US Copyright Office. Do free trademark searches at NameProtect
Literary Periodicals
Publishers with an eye for quality
Literary Societies and Associations
Organizations that support writers and celebrate excellent work, often specialized by region or genre
Markets and Contests for Writers
Venues that pay writers for their work. Contests usually ask for a reading fee, markets usually do not. Most poetry manuscripts today are published through contests, except for well-established authors
Memorial Sites
Remembering those we've lost
News for Writers
Timely news about poets, authors, media and publishers
Online Poetry Forums
Places to post your work for public reading, critique and feedback
Poetry and Humor
Light verse, parody and the best bad poems ever written
Poetry and Religion
These sites, journals and contests explore spiritual themes
Poetry Archives
Large, free online libraries of the best classic and contemporary poems; audio and video recordings
Poetry in Performance
Poetry festivals, slams and bouts; drama, plays, screenwriting
Poetry Link Directories
Explore well-selected poetry sites and publications
Poetry of War
Sites, journals, books and poems
Publishers
These presses caught our attention with unique, innovative work
Reference Sites
Beyond-the-ordinary resources to track down information and stimulate your thinking
Resources and Contests for Students
Contests, advice, and hubs for young poets and writers
Resources for Teachers
Tools for educators, conferences and workshops
Resources for Translators
Publishers of literature in translation, plus translators' associations
Reviews and Criticism
Critical insights into poems and poets
Scam Busting Sites
Learn how to spot scam contests and marketing gimmicks, with links to web resources that fight scams
Self-Publishing Resources
Weblog Resources
Blogging: an affordable, easy way to publish work online
Essential Tools
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