Writing

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Contents 1 New Titles 2 Popular Topics 3 Reference Books 4 Magazines and Journals at the Library 5 Local Groups 6 Web Resources

New Titles

Popular Topics

Academic Writing Business Writing Calligraphy Copywriting Creative Nonfiction Creative Writing Cryptography Editing

English Language Grammar English Language Rhetoric English Language Style English Language Usage Feature Writing Fiction Writing Food Writing

Grant Writing Graphology/Handwriting Journalism Letter Writing Marketing/Publishing Playwriting Poetry

Report Writing Resume Writing Screenwriting Songwriting Short Story Writing Style Manuals Technical Writing Travel Writing

Reference Books

The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing

The Gregg Reference Manual

Guide to Literary Agents

International Directory of Little Magazines & Small Presses

International Literary Market Place

Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors, & Literary Agents

Literary Market Place: LMP

The Poet's Market

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory

The Writer's Market

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Magazines and Journals at the Library

• The library owns literally thousands of magazines and newspapers in print, microfiche, microfilm, and electronic formats. These magazines are located in the Reading Room, our Youth Services Department, the Grand Rapids History and Special Collections Department, and our Retrieval Desk at the Main library, as well as at each of our branches.

• Search our catalog for specific titles.

• Search our databases for full-text articles and citations from thousands more magazines and newspapers. Check MeL (the Michigan Electronic Library) to find out if a magazine's full-text articles are included in a database.

• Below are lists of the current newspapers and magazines we have in the Reading Room at the Main Library.

Poetry  (website) Poets and Writers  (website) Writer  (website) Writer's Digest  (website)

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Local Groups

Grand Rapids Regional Romance Writers of America

Grand Rapids Writer's Exchange

Web Resources

• Chicago Manual of Style Citation Quick Guide Need help citing that book or blog, this quick guide provides the Chicago-Style know-how.

• Economist.com's Style Guide A helpful guide for journalistic writing.

• Google Directory for Writers Resources Find links to various writing-related websites.

• Literary Market Place Online directory of the book publishing industry. Includes some free information as well as subscriber information.

• OWL at Purdue An excellent resource for all writers. Especially helpful is their MLA formatting guide and their APA formatting guide.

• Poets & Writers Includes P&W's catalog, news,literary links, job bank, readings and workshops. This site provides some free information as well as information available only through subscription.

• Proofreaders' Marks Here's a helpful chart explaining some of those editorial red marks.

• Suite101: Reading and Writing A good place for finding articles and courses for the beginning writer.

• The Writer's Almanac Learn a little literary history and listen to Garrison Keillor read a daily poem.

• Writing World Contains hundreds of articles filled with tips and techniques about writing.