resources

DIRECTORIES
Authors on Tour    AALBC    Book Awards    Ethnic Booksellers    Mosaic Books    Online Publishers    Online Writing Resources    Reading Groups

CONFERENCES & FESTIVALS
Acapulco Black Film Festival    African American Book Club Summit Black Writers Alliance Reunion & Conference    Black Writers Retreat*   Etheridge Knight Festival of the Arts*     Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival Midwest Poets & Writers Conference National Black Arts Festival People's Poetry Gathering Shaw Guides Southern California Writers Conference    Southern Women Writers Conference Spoleto Festival USA Taos Poetry Circus    Urbanworld Film Festival The Virginia Festival of the Book Zora Neale Hurston Festival

POETRY & LITERARY SITES
Alien Flower    Alsop Review ArtWord Quarterly Gargoyle Daily Jubilat Mandrake Poetry Review Pittsburgh Quarterly Poetrybay Poetry Daily Poetry Flash Poetry Magazine     Poets & Writers Poets House Poetry Int'l Prose Poem Spoon River The Zuzu's Petals     Women of Color Women of Words

Listservs/Newsletters/Workshops/Info/News
About.com AbsoluteWrite Africana.com Ampersand Online Bookwire Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Cave Canem   Clarion West Writers Workshop deGriotSp@ce E-Drum    Find Your Own Shine Funds for Writers Hurston-Wright Foundation Kalliope Poetry Exercise Workshop LitLine MonkeyBREAD Prolific Writers Songwriter's Monthly    Squaw Valley Community of Writers Stories.com WritersWrite

ORGANIZATIONS
American Booksellers Association Academy of American Poets African American Literature Book Club African American Mystery Page ASCAP Associated Writing Programs Black Caucus of the American Library Association Black Film & Video Network    Black Storytellers Alliance Black Theatre Network Black Women in Publishing Book Industry Study Group     Chicago Guild Complex    Def Poetry Jam Detroit Writers Guild Electronic Poetry Center     Haraka Writers International Black Writers & Artists Lannan Foundation Muse's Muse Songwriter Resources    Mystery Writers of America    National Association of Black Journalists    National Association of Black Storytellers National Black Writers Alliance National Newspaper Publishers Association National Writers Union New York State Writers Institute     NOMMO Literary Society*   North Carolina Haiku Society North Carolina Writers Network     Nuyorican Poets Cafe The Poetry Center of Chicago    Poetry Society of America Sisters in Cinema Sisters in Crime Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center Speak Out Institute     Unisong International Songwriters Women Make Movies

PUBLISHERS
Alice James Books Ahsahta Press Anhinga Press Beacon Press Blackwords, Inc. BOA Editions, Ltd. Carolina Wren Press Coffee House Press Copper Canyon Press Lotus Press*   Milkweed Editions Ohio University Press Rattapallax ReGeJe Press Runagate Press Sarabande Books Sun and Moon Press Third World Press*   Tia Chucha Press University of Georgia Press Verse Press White Pine Press Zoo Press

REFERENCE
Dictionaries
     Your Dictionary     Merriam-Webster     Dictionary.com     Cambridge
Rhyming Dictionaries
     Rhymezone     WriteExpress
Thesauri
     Thesaurus.com     American Society of Indexers Thesauri Online
Copyright
     Library of Congress     Using Copyrighted Content
Quotations     Translators     Anagram Generator     Advanced Book Exchange     Harvest Books      Literary Listservs    Literature Texts Online     Search Song Lyrics

BOOK CLUBS & REVIEW SITES
Black Expressions     Black Issues Book Review     Black Literature     Bookwire     The Good Book Club      Mosaic Books     Quarterly Black Review     R.A.W. Sistaz

*No Website Contact
Black Writers Retreat (Summer) - For inquiries, address Third World Press (address below)
Cave Canem - Website coming soon. Inquiries: Carolyn Micklem at [email protected].
Etheridge Knight Festival of the Arts (Spring) - For inquiries, ask for contact information for Ife Zenzele (Eunice Knight-Bowens) through the Writers' Center of Indiana - http://www.indianawriters.org.   317.940.6336.
Lotus Press - Publisher, Naomi Long Madgett, 18080 Santa Barbara Drive, Detroit, MI 48221   313.861.1280
NOMMO Literary Society - (New Orleans-based workshop), contact Kalamu ya Salaam at [email protected].
Third World Press - Publisher, Haki Madhubuti, 7822 S. Dobson Ave., Chicago, IL 60619   773.651.0700