Members’ Web Sites

Beth Elliott’s Regency Tales blog www.regencytales.blogspot.com Beth Elliott’s Regency website https://www.regencytales.co.uk Claudette Flint https://shootingpeople.org/cards/Claudette Colin Ferguson www.cdferguson.com David Burnell www.davidburnell.weebly.com Jan (Rosie Dean) www.rosie-dean.com Mary Pooley www.tilehurst.plus.com Neil Somerville www.selfhelpforwriters.blogspot.com http://www.neilsomerville.com Richard Holdsworth www.holdsworthwrites.co.uk Rob (Wessex Wanderings) www.psophis.blogspot.com Sarah Cox www.SarahFlintAuthor.com Walter Jardine www.walterjardine.co.uk

Writers’ Groups

Gosnells Writers Circle (Australia) www.gosnellswriterscircle.org Slough Writers’ Group www.sloughwriters.org.uk/ St. Albans Writers’ Group www.verulamwriterscircle.org.uk/

Poetry

The Poetry School - the art of poetry www.poetryschool.com/ Events, Magazines, Courses, books etc. www.poetrykit.org/

General

BBC Writers’ Room www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom National Association of Writers’ Groups www.nawg.co.uk National Short Story Week www.nationalshortstoryweek.org.uk A 75 word paragraph changing daily www.paragraphplanet.com

Writers’ Forums

These sites are aimed primarily at new and unpublished authors. Writer Advice https://writeradvice.com Help to get published www.writersservices.com General news magazine www.hackwriters.com Advice for new writers www.theauthorszone.com (US) Writers’ general help http://www.writers.net (US) For those writing for the web www.wordcircuits.com (US)

Magazines

Magma Poetry http://magmapoetry.com/ Mslexia www.mslexia.co.uk/ Scribble www.scribblelit.com/ Woman’s Weekly www.womansweekly.com/fiction/ Writers’ News www.writersnews.co.uk/ Writers’ Forum www.writers-forum.com/

Publishing

Amazon KDP - Self-publishing Amazon Find an agent https://querytracker.net/ Create your own web site https://websitesetup.org Book printer for self-publishers ttps://print2demand.co.uk/ Searchable database of publishers https://reedsy.com/

Competition Sites

Prizemagic This site gives a comprehensive list of various types of writing competition weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual. It includes requirements for each, short story, poetry, genre, etc) and fees (if you’re under 21, many are free!). The site also offers advice and guidance on entering competitions. Worth a look. Reedsy This site offers an extensive list of writing contests - fee and free. The contests page allows you to choose what type of competition you are interested in and filter out expired contests. The site also has a lot of other interesting stuff about writing and publishing, and primarily seems to be a marketplace for editors to connect with writers. Christopher Fielden Another site with an extensive list of competitions, but you may find that some of the links are out of date. The site also includes some writing advice, and some advice on publishing and the industry. There is also a newsletter email subscription which is quite useful to alert you to updates to the site and other news. There’s a lot of self promotion - but it is his site! Erica Verrillo This is probably one of the most comprehensive sites’ listing competitions and paying markets, but typically tends to be focused on America. The July 2023 list shows 66 writing contests. No entry fees. The design of the site does not always help you and the latest articles are usually highlighted to the right of the page rather than at the top of the page. There is a newsletter email subscription, but it is rather erratic. Masters Review It styles itself as ‘A platform for emerging writers’ and it does seem to be a useful site, with a monthly newsletter identifying free competitions over the coming period.