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Competitions & Contests
Classes, Conferences & Events
Manuscript formatting
Publications
Resources
Writers Organizations

COMPETITIONS & CONTESTS

Fiction

• Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for Fiction
• Boost's 3rd Annual Writer's Contest
• Brighid's Fire Books/LughnassadhBooks Fiction Manuscript Contest
• Difficult People Writing Contest
• E-Clips Quarterly Contest
• E.M. Koeppel $1,100 Short Fiction Award
  Fineline Competition
• Howard Frank Masher Short Fiction Prize
• Middlesex University Press Literary Prize
• Midlist Press First Series Awards
• Momaya Short Story Competition
• Mount Arrowsmith Novel Writing Contest
• The 26th Nimrod/Hardman Awards,
• The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction & The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry
• OnceWritten.com Writing Contests
• Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award
• Speakeasy Prize in Poetry & Prose

Film & TV

• The AAA Screenwriting Contest
• ABC Entertainment and The Walt Disney Studios Writing Fellowship Program
• Alliance Screenplay Competition
• American Gem Short Script Competition
• 4th Annual IP Worldwide Screenwriting Contest
• Augusta Pictures Screenplay Contest
• Austin Film Festival and Heart of Film Screenplay Competition
• Big Break! International Screenwriting Contest
• The Carl Sautter Memorial Scriptwriting Competition for Film and Television
• Cynosure Screenwriting Awards
  FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards
• HBO Short Film Award
• Hollywood Gateway Screenwriting Contest
• Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting program
• International Screenwriting Awards
• Moondance
• Open Door Screenwriting Contest
• The 2005 Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards Competition for Theater, Film & Television
• San Diego Film Festival Screenwriting Contest
• Santa Barbara Script Competition
• Script P.I.M.P. Screenwriting Competition
• Scriptapalooza
• Slamdance
• Sundance
  

Other genres

• Alarm Clock Theater Company
• Playwriting Contest
• Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize for the Essay
• Mid-American Review Creative Nonfiction Award
• Midlist Press First Series Awards
• TooWrite Competition

Lists of contests

• Filmmakers.com
• Indie Producer contests
• InkTip's contest list
• Scripts & Coverage's contest list

CLASSES, CONFERENCES & EVENTS

• Community of Writers at Squaw Valley
• Creative Rites Workshop
• Flash Forward
• La Jolla Writers Conference
• Let's Do Lunch
• LitQuake
• San Francisco Writers Conference
• UCLA Extension/Writers Program
• West Coast Writers Workshops

MANUSCRIPT FORMATTING

• Writing World: A Quick Guide to Manuscript Formatting
• Fiction Addiction: Manuscript Format
• William Shunn: Proper Manuscript Format
• The Obligatory Manscript Format Article
• Manuscript formatting rules

PUBLICATIONS

• Creative Screenwriting industry news plus the free CS Daily e-newsletter
• Hollywood Reporter
• ProducerMag
• Script Mag Free weekly e-newsletter

RESOURCES

• The Artful Writer for TV/film writers
• Christian Writers Board
• Copyright Office Everything you ever wanted to know about copyright
• Done Deal Updated list of who bought what
• ExploreWriting Articles from our British buds
• Grammar Check
• Hollywood Spec Agency helps writers sell (or fund) their projects through creative presentations on DVD.
• Independent Films is a nonprofit site dedicated to helping aspiring independent film makers.
  The Internet Movie Database lists movie plots, directors, writers, and more. Handy for inspiration and tracking trends.
• Keep Writing from Dave Trottier
• Mike Sirota offers evaluation and editing services for both novels and nonfiction books.
• Movie Pitch
• Name generators
• Planet Shark Industry message board, resources
• Script City Buys TV and movie scripts
• The Slang Site
• Ralan "Links for hungry writers" (lots and lots of links)
• Urban Legend Reference Pages
• WriteItNow novel writing software (try the free demo version)
• Writers Break
• Writer's Digest 101 best websites for writers
• Writers Guild of America website has research link. (Click the "for writers" button.)
• Writers Guild of American Foundation Library is devoted specifically to material about writers and writing, and is open to the public.
• Writers Market online database
• The Writers Store
• Writing.com Free online writers' community

WRITERS ORGANIZATIONS

• Ash Canyon Review
• Book Publicists of So. California
• Bookends promotes childhood literacy
• Historical Novel Society
• Horror Writers Association
• IWOSC
• Mystery Writers of America
• New Playwrights Foundation
• Organization of Black Screenwriters
  PEN American Center
• Professional Writers of Orange County
• Publishers Association of Los Angeles
• Romance Writers of America
• Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America
• ScreenplayLab weekly lectures and more
• Scriptwriters Network
• Sisters in Crime mystery writers association
• Sisters in Crime L.A. chapter
• Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators
• WriteGirl pairs female writers with inner-city teenage girls to help them learn to express themselves. The organization publishes an anthology at the end of each season.