General and Videos
Resources
General Resources
Editing Resources
Publishing Resources
Communities
Workshopping/Writers' Groups
Contests
Videos
General Resources
40 of the Best Websites for Young Writers
A compilation of websites for writing communities, grammar help, creativity boosters, and publishing information.
Inspiration:
Books Written by Children or Teenagers
A Wikipedia page about people who have successfully written novels as children or teens.
Photos of famous authors as teens
Handwriting:
"Handwriting is a 21st Century Skill" in The Atlantic
Ted Hughes reflects on typing versus writing by hand
Three Reasons you Should Write by Hand
Focusing Tools:
Freedom: Internet Blocking Software
Coffitivity: Coffee shop sounds, for those who work best with background chatter.
Editing Resources
These are just a few resources about editing — mostly for specific genres. Many other resources can be found online by searching for "revision" and "editing" and the genre you're working in.
11 Tips for Editing Your Own Writing
The Editor’s Blog — Checklist for Editors
Advice on Editing Poetry by Grace Wells
How to Prepare Your Stage Play for the Theatre Market
The Playwright's Checklist (A Revision Tool)
General Editing Resources:
Writing on the Run! Exercises on Grammar and Usage
Available for purchase from Open School BC.
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University
Writing resources and instructional material to assist with writing projects in general.
Grammar Bytes! Grammar Instruction with Attitude
Exercises on the Passive Voice
Revising Passive Constructions
Practice Changing Verbs from Passive to Active
Wordiness, Wordiness, Wordiness List
G. Kim Blank's guide for avoiding wordiness.
Thesaurus.com
Online thesaurus resource.
Publishing Resources
Claremont Review
Flash Fiction
An online magazine that publishes stories from 500 to 1000 words long.
Making a digital magazine by Joomag
Offers an online editor to create your own digital publication.
Wikipedia: Online magazine
All about e-zines.
We Make Zines
An online community for zine makers and readers.
Making a blog or website into a pdf or ebook with Zinepal
Submitting:
A few comprehensive sites that list publishers accepting work.
The Canadian Writers' Market
The CWM lists who publishes what, and is updated frequently.
Canadian Literary Magazines
A comprehensive list maintained by the University of Alberta.
Wikipedia Literary Magazines List
A list of literary magazines that have been publishing for ten years or more.
Book Production:
Lauren Oliver and Harper Collins' YouTube series How a Book is Made
Communities
Writers in Electronic Residence
Workshopping/Writers' Groups
Starting and running a year-round writing group
One writer's "10 Rules for Starting a Writing Club"
Contests
CBC Literary Prizes
Poetry, short story and creative nonfiction contests held annually.
Canadian Authors Association Branch Writing Contests
The Writers' Union of Canada Short Prose Competition
Pearl Luke's Creative Writing Contests
A comprehensive contests list for Fiction.
TD Canadian Children's Book Week 2015 Writing Contest
Youth Contests:
The Claremont Review Contest
A poetry and fiction contest for writers aged 12 to 19.
Jessamy Stursburg Poetry Contest for Canadian Youth
Hosted by the League of Canadian Poets, a contest for poets in Grades Seven through Twelve.
Videos
This video introduces Writing 12 and the authors featured in the Writing 12 videos.
Writers talk about their revision process.
Lau, Rader and Schroeder share the number of drafts their work goes through, and what this says about revision.
On reading as a critical part of writing and source of ideas.
Lau on overcoming obstacles to writing.
Lau and Rader sharing the need for space for reflection and creating the headspace necessary for writing.
Lau and Schroeder on writing in multiple genres and how writing finds its appropriate length/genre.
On the personal essay form — the final assignment in the Creative Nonfiction Module "Go Deeper" section.
On the most important element in creative nonfiction.
Writers and their origins: what makes them unique?
Two approaches to structuring a story.
On writing good dialogue.
Rader on how form creates meaning in poetry — forms are not prescriptions, but meaningful containers.
A reading by Matt Rader.
A reading by Matt Rader.