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Thanks to Purefiction for compiling the list of sites below. Their site is worth a visit as it offers many services and interesting tips.

http://www.writers.net -offers links and services for writers

http://www.literal-latte.com/ -literary magazine online

http://www.granta.com/ -link to literary magazine plus the New York Literary Review

http://www.pw.org/ -literary magazine online

http://www.askjeeves.com/ -user friendly search engine

The Internet Writing Journal is new from Writers Write, Inc. There are loads of top features, all updated monthly.

Authorlink is a whole new way for editors and literary agents to discover ready-to-publish, evaluated manuscripts. There's free industry news updated twice monthly. The site also evaluates, showcases and aggressively markets ready-to-publish manuscripts to editors and agents worldwide.

Getting Hooked: Fiction's Opening Sentences 1950s-1990s is a new book by Sharon Rendell-Smock - showing how to grab your readers' attention across all genres.

The Poets & Writers home page is a well-designed on-line companion to Poets and Writers magazine. The site is produced by the entire organisation, including the Information Center, the Readings & Workshops department and the new Speakeasy conferences.

The Tale Wins literary agency provides links to every publisher with a submissions page.

The Sleuthfest: Mystery Writers of America, Florida Chapter is now in its fifth year.

http://www.editor.net is the legendary Jane Dorner's home page.

http://www.imprimatur.alcs.co.uk is an important site on electronic copyright that all writers should know about.

Society of Authors

ALCS

The Writers Guild- for writers with writing sites - is at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kennsj/iwguild/

Spotlight seems to like us - so we like Spotlight too! It started as Laura Lynn Leffers free email newsletter on book promotion, and is now also a Web site updated on the 15th of each month. Laura also has two other Web sites: the novel Dance On The Water and An Author's Guide to Budget Book Promotion.

Journalism UK is an ideal resource for anybody who wants to write for UK publications or just wants to know what's going on.

Fictech Net-E-Zine for Novelists offers free writer's workshops, several free newsletters, a free writer's correspondence and critique exchange club, the Yellow Pad Review literary magazine, writing contests and a variety of creativity enhancing exercises.

The Constant Change Writers' Den is a new site for authors, poets novelists of all genres, the studious and the literary minded.

The Writers' Forum is a new site for writers of fiction.

WriteAway Home page is a service for writers by writers which uses funds from this project to implement workshops on writing for youth.

Writers Write at is an online resource for writers with a database of guidelines for on-line publications that publish comics, fiction, jokes, plays, poetry or screenplays.

The Working Writer is a query, submission, market and agent tracking system for writers, with a downloadable demo version.

Raven Wolf is looking for new writers.

The Writer's Market Board is a free site which aims to become the number one clearinghouse for writer's market information on the Internet.

StoryCraftNet is apparently the Internet's first and only automated fiction-writing tool. If it saves the need for all that typing I'll be hooked...

Sherryl Clark is Writer in Residence in the City of Boroondara (in Melbourne, Australia) and has a home page for young writers with lots of information, ideas, advice.

NetStories is a free place for people, especially students, to show off their short stories. Copyrights are in the author's name so they retain all rights.

The Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society collects revenue from photocopying and other re-uses of written work and distributes it to 35,000 writers in the UK and elsewhere.

The official @Writers page has arrived! Check it out...

Spilled Candy is a bi-monthly newsletter for self-promoting writers. It teaches guerilla marketing techniques to writers, particularly the self-published and underadvertised!

Critique Partner Connections

Way Ahead is a commercial site but it is packed with useful information for writers.

Martin Zurla has a writers' resources page.

The Reader's, Writer's and Creative Mind's Home has some useful links.

The Writer's Software Companion is hailed as the first truly interactive software for fiction instruction. It has been developed by Writer's Digest fiction columnist Nancy Kress and noted computer-based learning expert Terry Boothman.

Chapterhouse Press maintains a growing list of "Heroic Efforts" essays, providing writing tips geared toward the superhero genre but generally applicable to other genres as well. Coming soon will be "Story behind the Story" essays, in which the company's published writers take readers behind the scenes of their stories and the creative process.

The misc.writing FAQ offers an excellent overview of the writing business. It covers subjects such as "How do I get an agent?", "How do I find a market for my manuscript", and plenty more besides.

Inklings has back issues of the monthly newsletter for authors and links to other useful sites.

Inkspot is a collection of resources for writers - especially those who write for children.

Write On Magazine is designed to help writers and aspiring writers with writers tips and extensive links to writers resources on the web, news of writers conferences and writers groups, email exchange where writers can correspond with others to obtain interviews and information, the Book Mart where authors can market their books on the Internet, a selection of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, and interviews with top Florida authors who share their writing expertise.

Kevin K. Shah has compiled his own list of writing links.

The Friendly Pencil offers on-line writing courses to "help aspiring writers achieve their individual goals".

The Eclectic Writer

The 6' Ferret Writers' Group Home Page

Info Central offers on-line and printed resources for writers, editors, graphic designers, desktop publishers, electronic publishers and Internet marketers.

The Readers' and Writers' Resource Page has loads of links and a mine of useful information for writers.

The StoryCraft Writers' Page offers the acclaimed StoryCraft story-generating software and Chris Vogler's classic, The Writer's Journey, as well as correspondence courses and software for creative-writing classes. It also features a free monthly newsletter that contains lively discussions about the Jarvis Method/mythological approach to writing fiction.

Writer's Block is a commercial site with a writers' newsletter, a monthly writing tip and links to other useful sites.

Visit Prism International for details of the annual Prism short fiction contest and how you can share in over $3,000 of prizes. Also check out the comprehensive selection of resources for writers, and new fiction from Canada and around the world.

Check out copyright information for everything you need to know before signing your life away.

Cine-Study offers Internet Assistance for the Cinema Professional including advice and information about the film world provided by Marnie L. Froberg, library staff supervisor at Vancouver Community College.

The misc.writing Web site is an excellent first port of call for all would-be professional writers.

The Market List is a free resource containing over 100 current science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction markets, with short articles and Q & A's with writers and editors.

Bricolage is a writers' ezine with topical articles

Steven Boswell's page contains everything he knows about writing.

The Screenwiters & Playwrights home page has all sorts of resources for - as you might expect - screenwriters and playwrights!

Writers on the Net offers on-line writing courses

The Hermit's Electronic Publishing Page deals with electronic publishing in all its forms.

In Troy, N.Y., the Writing Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute includes a section on basic prose style and mechanics.

The Writer's BBS is a new site with discussion forums, links to other writing related sites, guest author home pages, and other fun stuff.

WordSmith's WebBook contains lots of writing tips and techniques, along with loads of useful links.

If you've set up a site and want to register it with all the search engines and relevant indices, try Submit-It.

ComedyWriter for Windows is a brainstorming tool to help writers come up with unusual scenes, dialogue, characters, etc and includes a large database of first names.

The Children's Book Council is a non-profit trade association for children's book publishers and producers.

Childrens Writing Resource Center offers advice to all would-be children's writers.

Writing_Tips includes information on the Fog Index which tells you how easy your work is to read.

Writing Advice from writer and editor Dan Perez