Research and Resources

Please check back often for more Writer’s Research and Resources!

Story-Telling

• How to Hook Readers from the Very First Line – Suzannah Windsor Freeman
• Tropes of all Kinds
• Five Foundations of World Building – Malinda Lo
• Don’t Look Back: The Problem With Backstory – Benjamin Percy

Science Fiction

Finding Money to Write

Grants & Fellowships

• Nevada Arts Council
• 19 Writing Fellowships
• Sustainable Arts Foundation
• Inside Philanthropy
• Working Class Writers Grant
• Virginia Commission for the Arts
• Funds for Writers

Residencies

• Oregon Shakespeare Festival
• Aerogramme Writing Studio
• Rockvale Writers’ Colony

Crowd Funding

• Buy Me A Coffee
• Inkshares
• Unbound

Finding an Audience

Publishing Ecosystem

• What is Upmarket Fiction? – Chuck Sambuchino
• Why Are So Many Literary Writers Shifting into Genre? – Kim Wright
• The Porch

Coaching and Mentoring

• Elements of Fiction – Beth Hill