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Links We Like
- Year 2 student, Aarushi Shetty, has been busy producing videos for her anti-bullying campaign. See: Behind the Scenes, the Bullying Poem, the Bullying Animation
- Literary news from the new Literature Society
- Blood and Ink – A documentary about the poetry scene in the Coventry area, well worth a watch.
- Black Writers Collective.
- Oh we love this! Test your paragraphs for flabby prose here!
- The Writers Forum
- National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE)
- Writing West Midlands
- Writing.com
- Write for Rights (Amnesty)
- Critters is a writing feedback community. Writers earn “critique points” by critiquing other people’s works, and they can later use these points to submit their own works to be critiqued.
- Project Gutenberg has virtually every single literary classic for free, provided it’s over a certain age.
- Hemingway Editor is a web app that suggests real-time edits based on algorithms in creative writing (it’s useless for academic writing). It looks for things like the use of passive, slips in verb tense, etc.
- Jane Hardy’s Fiction University is filled with invaluable and specific advice.
- http://www.wordcalc.com/ is a syllable counter. Very useful for strict-form poetry writing.
- http://rhymebrain.com/en is Steve Hanov’s rhyming dictionary. It’s the best one on the web.
- 33 Of The Most Hilariously Terrible First Sentences In Literature History
- Radio Wildfire spreading the spoken word online
- Co-publishing: Lightning Books
- www.booktrust.org.uk – an organisation that transforms live by getting children and families reading and writing.
- www.grammarly.com/blog/ – an insightful writing and grammar blog with a sense of humour.
- www.doxzoo.com – a low-cost hardback and paperback online printing service for self-published writers.
- The Student Wordsmith is a place for writers of poetry, and artists or photographers, to get their work noticed.
- Chops, Dharma and the Gadsby Hill of Karma is Andy Watson’s book published on Feedaread.com. Andy studied English and Creative Writing at Coventry University.
- Anna Harper’s writing and drawings
- School of Humanities – that’s us!
- English and Creative Writing BA Hons
Magazines We Like
Some Student Articles Published Elsewhere
Play Links
Children’s Stories
Poetry
Short Story Links
Local Publishers
Some Student Blogs
Competitions, and Submission Links to our Favourite Mags
Creative Writing Research