Beyond the Writing Handbook: Exploring All Library Resources for Writing Support: Creative Writing

Are you trying to write a personal statement and for grad school or an MFA program and you aren't sure were to start? Try some of these creative college writing prompts.

Try some of these story starters for your next story.

The free online freelancer directory offers clients instant access to the diverse assortment of highly skilled publishing professionals who make up EFA membership. The free EFA job listing service offers clients another way to find the right freelancer for the job. As a subscription service, it offers EFA members access to a wide variety of project opportunities.

A free online magazine that publishes first-rank fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. It contains an online library of new literature by celebrated authors and by the best new and emerging writers.

information about creative writing contests, literary magazines theme issues, writing residencies, etc.

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"[This] MFA database includes information about low- and full-residency graduate creative writing programs in the United States and other English-speaking countries to help you decide where to apply." --Poets & Writers

"Graduate-level writing programs began to appear across the United States, booming particularly in the 1960s (corresponding with a surge in government funding for the arts), when respected and still-running programs like UNC-Greensboro, Brown University, the University of Oregon, and San Francisco State University began welcoming writing students and professional writers-turned-professors into the academic fold..."

Writing workshops and events in the region.