We urge you to support the The Hike for Hope. Proceeds from the Hike will benefit the Diabetes Action Research and Education Foundation in their efforts to lower the incidence of Adult Onset (Type II) Diabetes. The Hike kicks off on Sunday, June 2 and continues through June 11. Visit the web site for progress reports!
The Flash Fiction Flash is a monthly newsletter devoted to short-short literature 2,000 words or less (including short-short stories, prose poetry, creative nonfiction, haibun, flash memoirs, and flash plays). It includes publishing news, market information, a feature article on the art of flash literature and details of available workshops. To subscribe:
URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FlashFictionFlash
Or send a blank e-mail to FlashFictionFlash-Subscribe@yahoogroups.com
200 Watt Flashbulb by Bob Thurber is a startling look at one man's relationships with the women he grew up with. Note: This site uses frames and may be difficult to navigate by those with visual impairments.
These Waves of Girls, the Electronic Literature Organization's 2001 Fiction Award Winner, bills itself as a "hypermedia novella." We think it just might be the model for the future of literature. From the ELO site:
"These Waves of Girls" is a hypermedia novella exploring memory, girlhoods, cruelty, childhood play and sexuality. The piece is composed as a series of small stories, artifacts, interconnections and meditations from the point of view of a four year old, a ten-year old, a twenty year old..."
URL: http://www.yorku.ca/caitlin/waves/
NOTE: This site requires Macromedia's Flash plug-in, and it may not be accessible to those using assistive technologies.
Inscriptions is a weekly e-newsletter for those who write — and for those who are interested in writing.
URL: http://www.inscriptionsmagazine.com
Moira Allen's site at Writing World.
URL: http://www.writing-world.com/services/wanted.html
e-writers.net is a site devoted to those who produce online content.
URL: http://e-writers.net
The Small Cast One-Acts Guide doesn't include complete plays but there's all sorts of interesting and useful stuff.
URL: http://www.heniford.net/1234/index.htm
The site also includes a good list of links at http://www.heniford.net/1234/links.htm
The Oxford English Dictionary
URL: http://www.oed.com/
yourDictionary.com provides the most comprehensive and authoritative portal for language & language-related products and services on the web with more than 1800 dictionaries with more than 250 languages. More than 1,500,000 people a month visit YDC.
URL: http://www.yourdictionary.com/
The Encyclopadia Britannica is the world's most comprehensive reference product, a distinction it has held since its first publication in 1768. EB Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use EB Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
URL: http://www.eb.com/
Bartleby.Com is just about the best all-purpose reference site on the Internet. It includes Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, the Columbia Encyclopedia, the American Heritage Dictionary and too many other resources to list here. And it's named after Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scrivener — what else could you want!
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/
Brevity is the flash companion to Creative Nonfiction's web site. According to the Brevity listing on the Creative Nonfiction site:
"Brevity publishes extremely brief literary nonfiction of a crisp,concise 750 words or less, focusing on detail and scene over thought and opinion."
URL: http://www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity/brevity.html