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

Database Resources

Literary Reference Center Plus
A broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRCP is a comprehensive database that combines information from over 11,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, images, audios, videos, study guides, and other unique literary content and sources not available anywhere else.
JSTOR
Provides articles from 1,300 scholarly journal titles in the arts, humanities, and sciences. Coverage dates are from the very first issue of each journal (the nineteenth or early twentieth centuries for many) and continues to 2 – 5 years prior to the current year (moving wall).
MLA International Bibliography
Is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations.
MLA Directory of Periodicals
Offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography.

Creative Writing Prompts (Warren Wilson College)
Need a starting point to get your creative juicing flowing for your next short story, poem, or play? Try some of these creative writing prompts to get you on your way.
25 Creative College Essay Prompts
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.
Story Ideas--Story Starters
Try some of these story starters for your next story.

Editorial Freelance Association
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.
Narrative Magazine
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.
Creative Writing Contests
information about creative writing contests, literary magazines theme issues, writing residencies, etc.
InkSpot--Online Writing Portfolio
InkSpot.Com is an online writing portfolio service powered by Writing.Com.

MFA Programs
"[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
Writing Can Be Taught: M.F.A. Survey 2014 (Publisher's Weekly)
"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..."
Kentucky Arts Council
Writing workshops and events in the region.
KET--Living By Words
Writing workshops and conferences are frequently listed on the Kentucky events calendar located on this site.