Poetry Writers' Yearbook
The new 2008 edition of this essential book for poets gives detailed listings of publishing companies, events and competitions, and helps you to survive and thrive as a poet.
The Internet provides poets with an exciting new outlet for their poetry. with the publisher's permission we are reprinting an excellent article from the new edition.
Kostas Hrisos, founder and editor of poetry ezine, Interpoetry, provides a useful and practical guide to the fast-growing world of the poetry ezine and epoetry.
Review of The Handbook of Creative Writing
Our reviewer concluded on this ambitious book:
'This is a serious handbook for people who approach the business of writing in a particular fashion, for whom simply ‘doing’ isn’t quite enough; it’s for people who need to know ‘why’ as well as ‘how’. On that basis, I have no hesitation in recommending it.'
T S Eliot Prize for Poetry
The shortlist for the 2007 T S Eliot Prize, 'the world's top poetry award' (Irish Independent) has just been announced and the Shadowing Scheme has now started.
Oxfam Life Lines 2
Oxfam have just launched the second Life Lines CD featuring 56 poets reading their own work.
Review of the Children's Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2008
Our updated review of the new edition concluded that it provided 'superb listings of publishers and agents specialising in children's books across the world' and that it is still 'a fantastically valuable resource for anyone who wants to venture into this highly specialised area of publishing'.
An Editor's Advice
This new series is based on the advice Maureen Kincaid Speller
a reviewer, writer, editor and former librarian, is our book reviewer and also works for WritersServices as a freelance editor., a long-serving WritersServices freelance editor, has given writers over the years. It deals with the most common problems she has encountered in the fiction manuscripts which cross her desk.
The series covers Dialogue, Doing further drafts, genre writing, planning, points of view, autobiography and presentation.
An Editor's Advice 1: on Dialogue
An Editor's Advice 2: on doing further drafts
An Editor's Advice 3: on genre writing
An Editor's Advice 4: on planning
An Editor's Advice 5: on points of view
An Editor's Advice 6: on autobiography
An Editor's Advice 7: on presentation
