Literature and Writing Sites

Literary Calendar
An Almanac of Literary Information

AwardWeb: Collections of Literary Award Information
This site's focus is its collection of annotated links to lists of science fiction literary awards, including the: Bram Stoker, Campbell, Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Dick, Tiptree, and many others. Other book award links cover general U.S. literary, mystery, and children's as well as the national prizes for Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

The Poetry Archives
The Poetry Archive strives to be the largest collection of FREE classical poetry on the internet. We hope to achieve this by offering a simple, easy to use database system whereby users can search through our database of poetry by author, title, and first line of poem. 'The Poetry Archives' currently contains 3651 poems by 137 poets consisting of 11673718 bytes. The site has its own search engine which will search through author, title and the first line of every poem.

British Women Romantic Poets
The goal of this project is the design and development of highly accurate and reliable electronic editions of works published by British women poets between 1789 and 1832.

Ask the Author
is part of the Internet Public Library's Youth Division. Here you will find short biographical sketches and interviews of young adult authors such as: Avi, Robert Cormier, Gary Paulsen, Lois Lowry, and others.

The Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection
contains 1566 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period. The collection is not inclusive of all the work on the web, nor does it plan to be. The sites are selected with some thought to their overall usefulness.

Arts & Letters Daily
- ideas, criticism, debate. This site features links to newspapers, magazines and journals, book reviews, articles, essays, editorials, news services, columnists, literary criticism, and 'amusements' in every area of the humanities. It is updated daily.

Yahoos Literature Page
provides mucho links to literary sources.

Anglo-American Literature Guide
The Anglo-American Literature Guide, located at the Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen, Germany, is an internet-based subject gateway to scholarly relevant information in Anglo-American language and literature. Resources are described and evaluated with a set of metadata. New resources are continuously added to the database, already catalogued ones regularly double-checked and updated.

The Mississippi Writers Page
The Mississippi Writers Page is a showcase for the many writers, both past and present, who have called the Magnolia state home. Biographies of the writers, information about their books and other publications, and bibliographies of other
information sources (including literary criticism) are among the features available here. It is an ongoing project.

Mark Twain Resources on the WWW
provides links to his writings, criticisms, biographical data, and quotations.

Shakespeare
contains ALL of the Bard's play's and poetry. Included are glossaries, annotations, chronologies of the plays, discussion group, and a search engine specific to Shakespeare's text.

Aesop's Fables

Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales and Stories

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