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Writers' Resources has been developed to help writers get published or to self-publish

We have enlisted the help of a number of distinguished writers and publishing figures to develop our Writers' Resources. Over the years this has become a massive resource base for writers.  Read more

Links to sites

Links to websites of interest by category - suggestions always welcome

These are our recommended links to sites of interest to writers, selected by us or suggested by you, accompanied by a brief review.

New links are added all the time,  so it's worth checking the many interesting sites we have added.  Read more

© Chris Holifield 2004-14

Picture library links

Mon, 01/01/2001 - 12:00am
How picture libraries work

The growth of digital technology

With the rapid spread of digital imaging and web use has come a huge change in the way images are sourced through the Internet. Picture researchers of vast experience and encyclopaedic knowledge have been challenged by younger researchers who can undercut them on cost and whose greatest strength is their ability is to find the right image quickly   Read more

Keyboard skills

Mon, 01/01/2001 - 12:00am
Learn to touch-type

The online courses which are available to help you learn to touch-type  Read more

Writers Online Services

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Writers' Blogs

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Links to other web resources

Writers’ Software

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Where to look

There are thousands of products that claim to help writers do their job better, and some of them do just that. But finding the appropriate product for your work can be a trying experience. The web is full of sites offering shiny new software, and there is no easy way to tell if you are buying the right tool for the job.
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11 February 2019 - What's new

February 2019
  • ‘I never planned to be a writer. It is a very odd way to make a living. Just telling lies... I do have a visceral sense of breaking through the shell of something when I walk into my study in the morning. Now I just go and do it.
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The Moth Short Story Prize 2019

Information

Closing date: 
30 June 2019
Entry: 
Open to any writer over 16 from anywhere in the world Entry fee €15 per story
Prize: 
1st prize €3,000, 2nd prize week-long writing retreat at Circle of Misse in France plus €250 travel stipend and 3rd prize €1,000

This year's judge is Kit de Waal.

The Prize is open to anyone (over 16), as long as the work is original and previously unpublished. There is a word limit of 5,000 words.

The winners will be announced in September 2019 and all three stories will appear in the autumn issue of the Morh Magazine.  Read more

'Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.'

— Anne Lamott

"Why am I writing this?"

11 February 2019

‘I never planned to be a writer. It is a very odd way to make a living. Just telling lies...

I do have a visceral sense of breaking through the shell of something when I walk into my study in the morning. Now I just go and do it. Sometimes it doesn't go well, but most often, I'll look up and it's time for lunch and I don't know what happened...  Read more