This reference is meant to include links pointing to a number of links useful to the student pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing. It is by no means comprehensive and will be updated monthly. Users of this reference are encouraged to submit additional links or to comment on the usefulness of the items found here.
Literary Magazines/Online Poetry
- Black Warrior Review
- Chroma
- Crazyhorse
- FIELD
- Georgia Review
- PALABRA
- Ploughshares
- Poetry Daily
- Prairie Schooner
- Sapphic Voices
- ScotsGay
- Soviet Peaches
- The Threepenny Review
- (un)remarkable
Multimedia
News (conferences, retreats, contests)
- AWP 2012 Conference
- Duotrope’s Digest
- Good Thunder Reading Series
- Great Twin Cities Poetry Read
- More Than Writing Conference 2011
Nonprofits and writers’ groups
- Cave Canem
- Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)
- Lake Superior Writers
- The Loft Literary Center
- Poetry Foundation
- Poets & Writers
- Poets.org
Small Presses
Teaching Methods
- Writers Workshop: The Craft of Writing by Grant Farley
- Smart Kids Who Hate to Write by Dianne Craft, MA, CNHP
Workshop (exercises, materials to get you started)
- How to Write a Novel: The Snowflake Method
- The Phrase Finder
- Poetry Exercise for March
- Quoteland.com
- RSA 21st Century Enlightenment
- TED Ideas Worth Spreading
- Writer Unboxed
Writing Programs
XYZ (items of note)
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