JOURNALS and COMMUNITIES

 

ARRAS:

"New Media Poetry and Poetics."

ARTIFACTS:

Well-designed poetry site. Java and Flash enabled.

BARCELONA REVIEW:

Multilingual international journal of fiction.

BEARD OF BEES:

Publishes poetry as free PDF downloads. Eric Elshtain, Editor.

BEEHIVE:

"Hypertext, Hypermedia Literary Journal." Edited by Talan Memmont. Last issue, Winter 2002/03.

BELLEVUE LITERARY REVIEW:

"We invite submissions of previously unpublished works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that touch upon relationships to the human body, illness, health and healing. We encourage creative interpretation of these themes."

BIG BRIDGE:

Poetry, Fiction, Art, including non-web-specific work. Big Bridge Press publishes books
and chapbooks of poetry.

BLAZEVOX 2K3

"An online journal of voice featuring new media and poetry avant garde."

BLUE MOON REVIEW:

"Best original literary work online, since 1994."

BORN MAGAZINE:

Based in Seattle and Portland. Oriented towards "energetic youth, mischevious and free."

CELL2SOUL:

"Our focus on the humanities aims to expand the concept of a medical journal and makes it more broadly accessible."

CIPHER JOURNAL:

A journal of translations and the process of translating.

CONTEMPORARY POETRY REVIEW:

Journal devoted to reviewing contemporary poetry. Accepts unsolicited work. Pays an unspecified honorarium. First-rate editorial staff.

CORTLAND REVIEW:

"An Online Literary Magazine in RealAudio."

CROSS CONNECT:

Poetry, essays, art, interviews. Also webcasts of poetry readings.

E-POETS NETWORK:

A collection of sound and video poetry readings "where spoken word lives on the Net."

ECLECTICA:

"The net equivalent (in terms of content) of Harper's, New Yorker, Granta, The Atlantic, and other publications providing quality material for the appetites of a wide variety of demanding readers."

ELECTRONIC BOOK REVIEW:

Various threads to large amount of reviews on an array of subjects. High-quality work..

ELECTRONIC POETRY REVIEW:

Poetry, interviews, book reviews of electronic poetry, and traditional forms.

ERATIO:

"An online journal specializing in postmodern poetry, poetics and eidetics." Edited by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino.

FASCICLE:

Poems, plays translations. Tony Tost, Editor. Translatons are edited by Kent Johnson.

FLASH POINT:

"A Multidisciplinary Journal in the Arts and Politics."

HAMILTON STONE REVIEW:

Halvard Johnson, Editor. "Our press and this Review are part of a movement of small, independent publishers dedicated to distributing high quality fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction."

HOSPITAL DRIVE:

Submissions will be accepted from anyone involved with providing, teaching, studying, or researching patient care. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by the editorial board, and only the highest quality work will be published. Poems, short fiction, personal essays, reviews, photography, & visual art (painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed media) will be considered.

HOW 2:

"Exploring non-traditional directions in poetry and scholarship by women."

HYPERIZONS:

Hypertext fiction and theory.

INFLITRATION:

"The zine about going places where you're not supposed to go."

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE FOR POETIC INVENTION:

"International Exchange for Poetic Invention is a multilanguage weblog with links and information on poetic invention - our term for exploratory/investigative/experimental/radical/ conceptual poetry. We hope the site will serve as an international point of contact for the exchange of information among those interested." Charles Bernstein & Ton van 't Hof.

IOWA REVIEW WEB:

"E-Literature and New Media journal from The University of Iowa."

JACK MAGAZINE:

Named for Jack Kerouac. Well-edited source for Beat and Post-Beat literature and news.

JACKET MAGAZINE:

Best collection of mainline poetry, interviews, reviews, articles on the web.

JOURNAL OF NEW MEDIA & CULTURE

"Publishing peer-reviewed papers and audiovisual pieces which contextualize encoding/decoding environments and the discourses, ideologies, and human experiences/uses of new media apparatuses."

KALDRON:

Visual poetry.

MAD HATTERS' REVIEW:

"Mad Hatters’ Review, a tri-annual online multimedia magazine staffed solely by mad hatters, welcomes writings that address psychosocial issues, the pollution of minds, hearts, bodies and nature. We also welcome purely aesthetic pieces, packed with surprising images and whimsical wordplays."

M/E/A/N/I/N/G:

"An anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory, and Criticism." Edited by Susan Bee and Mira Schor.

MIDWAY JOURNAL:

"The work here complicates and questions the boundaries of genre, binary, and aesthetic. It offers surprises and ways of re-seeing, re-thinking, and re-feeling: a veritable banquet of literary fare. Which is why, in each new issue, we are honored to present work by both new and established writers alike."

MILK MAGAZINE:

Slant toward The Beats, and first-rate writing. Larry Sawyer, Editor.

MUSE APPRENTICE GUILD:

An international literary quarterly, edited by August Highland.

MUSEUM OF THE ESSENTIAL AND BEYOND THAT + LIBRARY OF MARVELS:

Virtual building project by Brazilian digital artist  Regina Célia Pinto. The museum includes an excellent restaurant, and clean restrooms.

NARRATIVITY:

"A Critical Journal of Innovative Narrative." From San Francisco State University.

NEW RIVER:

High-quality journal of hypertext literature and art. Published at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Ed Falco, Editor.

NORTH AMERICAN CENTRE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY POETICS

"Housed at York University, Toronto, this de-centred Centre is conceived initially as a web-based forum for free exchange on matters pertaining to interdisciplinary creativity..."

OREGON LITERARY REVIEW:

"An online collection of literature, hypertext, art, music, and hypermedia."

PAST SIMPLE:

A literary journal edited by Jim Goar.

PEMMICAN:

"Some political poetry is about change: the demand for it, the hope for it, the longing for it. It could be seen as an act similar to magical conjuration, an attempt by the poet to will something into being through the alchemy of language, completely on the basis of their desire." Robert Edwards, Editor.

PERIHELION:

"To publish the best in contemporary poetry and fiction..."

POETS' CORNER:

A large selection of international poetry, curated by Anny Ballardini.

POSTMODERN CULTURE:

The leading electronic journal of interdisciplinary scholarship on the web.

RAIN TAXI:

On-line version of the popular book review journal featuring reviews not found in its printed version.

RELATIVE LINKS:

On-line reviews of poetry in print.

RIDING THE MERIDIAN:

Literature, theory, dialogue, edited by Jennifer Ley. Last issue 2003.

RHIZOMES:

"Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge."

ROSE & THORN:

"A Literary E-Zine"

SALT RIVER REVIEW:

"The Salt River Review appears three times a year....Editorial preferences are for poetry with fresh language and images, prose poems that are more than colorful or clever prose, short fiction, and brief reviews, though most reviews are done in-house. Literary non-fiction should be fresh and incisive - we are not interested in memoir or personal narrative."

SEULEMONDE:

Writing, Conversations, Poetry, links.

SIDEREALITY:

"A Journal of Speculative & Experimental Poetry."

UBUWEB:

Excellent resource for Visual, Concrete, and Sound poetries.

WEB DEL SOL:

"A literary arts and new media complex which pushes the envelope of both definitions." Links to journals that Web Del Sol supports.

XSTREAM:

A journal of "experimental poetry, collage, cut-up, computer-generated texts, etc."

ZAFUSY:

"Zafusy likes the experimental/surreal/disjointed/incomprehensible - but let's see."

ZNINE:

"An on-line literary review sponsored by the English department at The University Of Texas At Arlington."


TECHNICAL WRITING

 

GRAMMAR AND STYLE:

"Technical Writing," by Ronald B. Standler.

JOB LISTING FOR TECHNICAL WRITERS:

Nationwide positions and tips.

RESOURCES FOR TECHNICAL WRITERS:

Search Engines, Mailing Lists, Professional Associations, et al.

WRITERS WRITE:

Links to Resources for Technical Writers

 


ASSORTED WRITING SITES

 

ELECTRONIC LITERATURE DIRECTORY:

Excellent directory by genre, authors, publishers, technique. Edited by Robert Kendall for the Electronic Literature Organization.

ENGLISH 88

Al Filreis's extensive reading list of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry.  

THEWORDPROJECT.COM

South African site of kinetic/visual work that unfolds as a book.

BRAZILIAN DIGITAL ART AND POETRY ON THE WEB:

As they've done in other fields of the arts, Brazilian writers are making a major contribution to digital literary art. This is a excellent compilation of URLs by Jorge Luiz Antonio.

ELECTRONIC POETRY CENTER:

A large list of literary journals, online and print,  and general information. From SUNY at Buffalo.

ICORN:

"The International Cities of Refuge Network is an association of cities and regions around the world dedicated to the value of Freedom of Expression. Writers have consistently been targets of politically-motivated threats and persecution, and the network believes it is necessary for the international community to formulate and implement an appropriate response. ICORN aims to meet this challenge."

INTERNATIONAL DADA ARCHIVE:

"This Web site is designed to provide information on the resources and services of the International Dada Archive at the University of Iowa Libraries. It is the gateway to the International Online Bibliography of Dada. As the site is developed, it will also become a resource for additional information about the historic Dada movement and the individual Dada writers and artists, as well as links to other Internet resources."

KOOTENAY SCHOOL OF WRITING COLLECTIVE:

From Vancouver BC. Distributes the journal 'W' as a pdf. Alsohas an online archive of recordings from their reading series, from 1985 to present, and other literary and sound resources.

LIGHT & DUST ANTHOLOGY

"This site includes a federation of genre, subject, and author home page, as well as smaller surveys and individual poems. It should give a rough sketch of some of the possibilities of late 20th - early 21st Century poetry from a number of different points of view and means of presentation. This is an anthology rather than a zine, and an anthology dedicated to alternative means of presentation as well as pluralistic forms and subjects." Karl Young, Editor.

PORTLAND WRITERS ROOM:

This is a blog kept by Jeffery Selin on writers' issues and information in Portland, Oregon.

TRACE ARCHIVE:

"This unique archive contains a large and diverse collection of work published by the trAce Online Writing Centre between 1995 and 2005. It captures an evolutionary period in the history of literary communication comparable to the beginning of writing or the development of fixed type. The trAce Archive houses a broad range of original new media writing, articles, and transcripts of practice-based discussions."

WRT: WRITER RESPONSE THEORY:

WRT is a blogging collective dedicated to the discussion and exploration of digital character art - any art involving electrons and making use of letters, alphanumerics, or other characters in an interesting way. Our primary focus is on active and interactive works, in which users input text and receive textual responses as output.

 


RESEARCH GUIDES.

 

BOOK PUBLISHERS:

Selected lists of publishers.

CRITICAL THEORY

Excellent links to literary theory sites.

ENCYCLOPEDIAS:

Several on-line encyclopedias.

ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:

"I began this project after I looked one day for a free dictionary of word origins online and found that there was none."

FOREST OF RHETORIC (Silva Rhetoricae):

"This site is intended to help beginners, as well as experts, make sense of rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the purposes of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years)."

HTML CODE GUIDE:

Dictionary of HTML code.

HTML WEB DESIGN GUIDE:

Web Authoring Reference. Page includes an FAQ, and a HTML validator.

INTERNALATIONAL DICTIONARY OF NEOLOGISMS:

"Collected by The Avant Garde Museum of Temporary Art since 1985," this is a dictionary of neologisms, its title itself a recently invented word, to which writers may contribute.

LIBRARY ARCHIVES:

The On-Line Books Page. "These are large, general-purpose collections with substantial English-Language listings." Includes a link to listings in other languages.

LITERARY DEFINITIONS AND TERMS:

Intensive dictionary of literary terms.

RECENT DISSERTATIONS IN THE MEDICAL HUMANITIES:

"This guide is provided as a monthly current awareness service. Selected, recent dissertations and theses are listed according to topic and the month of their discovery in Dissertation Abstracts." Also links to other sites of the Medical Humanities.

SACKNER ARCHIVE OF CONCRETE AND VISUAL POETRY:

Database of the extensive collection of international concrete and visual poetries.

VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE:

Excellent Web Site for Humanities Research Links.

WWW DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES:

Links to various resources for World Wide Web development.

 


LITERARY DISCUSSION GROUPS

 

ARC.HIVE:

"we [mez & ftr] c the _arc[texture.eyes].hive_ list as a dissemination/node point 4 all things geared 4/2wards/in the
n][w][e][b][t, including the active creation of net.wurks via the list mechanism."

ASLE:

Discussion group for The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

-EMPYRE-:

"-empyre- facilitates critical perspectives on contemporary cross-disciplinary issues, practices and events in networked media by inviting guests -key new media artists, curators, theorists, producers and others to participate in thematic discussions."

POETICS:

From SUNY Buffalo. The main discussion list for poets. Archives, registration etc.

WEBARTERY

The oldest on-going discussion group of web-based writers and artists. "This list focusses on discussions of Web art or Net art, which involves a synthesis of previously often separate arts: writing, recorded sound, visual work, etc. It also can involve programming. The broad goal of the list is to participate in a thinking through/out of poetics of Web art. In other words, the discussions focus on the practice and theory of Web art as it arises. Part of the thrill of the art is in the synthesis, so artists of various backgrounds, critics too, are encouraged to participate."

WRITING AND THE DIGITAL LIFE :

"Writing and the Digital Life explores the impact of digital technologies upon writing and lived experience within an interdisciplinary context. We talk about the relationship of writing and reading in the context of many subjects including 'new and old' media; craft, art, process and practice; social networks; cooperation and collaboration; narrative and memory; human computer interaction; imagination; nature; mind; body, and spirit. Contributions related to research, writing and teaching in the arts, sciences, and humanities are all welcome. The list is managed by Sue Thomas, Professor of New Media at De Montfort University, England."

 


A SURVEY OF HOME PAGES, BLOGS, DISSERTATIONS


Randy Adams
Charles Alexander [blog]
Bruce Andrews
Jim Andrews
Babel
Anny Ballardini [blog]
Thomas Bell
Brad Brace
David-Baptiste Chirot [blog]
Peter Ciccariello [blog]
Maria Damon
David Daniels
Martha L. Deed
Alexander Dickow [blog]
Claire Dinsmore
Clifford Duffy [blog]
Adam Fieled [blog]
Vernon Frazer
Loss Pequeño Glazier
Jeremy Hight [blog]
Peter Howard
Daniel Canazon Howe
Shelley Jackson
Halvard Johnson + blog + blog
Adeena Karasick
Robert Kendall
Amy King
Tom W. Lewis [blog]
Marjorie Coverly Luesebrink
Chris Mansell [blog]
Yvonne Martinsson
mIEKAL aND
Rob McLennan [blog]
Talan Memmott + blog
Mez (Mary Breeze) + blog
Millie Niss
Margaret Penfold
Edward Picot
Regina Pinto [blog]
Nick Piombino [blog]
Lynda Schor
Steven Shaviro
Larissa Shmailo [blog]
Emmanuel Sigauke [blog]
Ron Silliman [blog]
Alan Sondheim + blog
Stephanie Strickland
Sue Thomas
Duc Thuan
Gregory Ulmer
Nico Vassilakis [blog]
Stephen Vincent [blog]
Ted Warnell
Joel Weishaus
Irving Weiss
Gabrielle Welford [diss.]
Frank Wilson [blog]
William Witherup
Maria X [blog]
Komninos Zervos