Creative Writing
Resources for Creative Writing
Creative Writing definitions and overviews
- Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
- Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information than a dictionary
Online dictionaries and encyclopedias
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Encyclopedia Britannica Online
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General Reference. Multidisciplinary
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Oxford Reference Online
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Includes: The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms , A Dictionary of Writers and their Works & more ...
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Print dictionaries and encyclopedias
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The Australian Writer's Marketplace 2004: a comprehensive directory to the writing and Publishing industry in Australia
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070.5025/1
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Dictionary of literary terms and literary theory
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803/18
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Dictionary of Poetic Terms
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808.103/2
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Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism
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803/21
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New Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics
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809.103/1
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Reference Guide to World Literature
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809/171
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Creative Writing books and moreSearch the Library Catalogue to find books, videos, CDs, DVDs, plays, poems, scripts If you know the exact title
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Creative Writing journal articlesSearch a database to find journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, research reports and newspaper articles. Try these first: Complete list of Creative Arts databases Found a useful reference? Some databases do not provide the full text of the article. To locate these articles, you will need to search the catalogue to determine if the Library holds the journal title(s) either in print or electronically on another database. Database search tips:
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- Use library database tips or the database help screens for tips on how to search
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Creative Writing Internet sitesIt is important to critically evaluate all information found on the Web. Try the following sites as a starting point. Australian Literature
- Australian Literature on the Internet
Produced by the National Library of Australia this site includes: reference resources, online journals, manuscripts, and more...
- Ozlit
Contains information and links to sites on Australian literary information including discussion groups, reference works, booksellers and publishers' catalogues, as well as a fully searchable database of authors and books. Critical TheoryE-text Collections
- Australian Literary and Historical Texts
A collection of Australian fiction, poetry, plays and non-fiction work. This database is part of the University of Sydney Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service.
- Electronic Text Centre (Virginia)
Holdings include approximately 70,000 on-and off-line humanities texts in thirteen languages, with more than 350,000 related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts etc)
- Project Bartleby
Access to books and verse free of charge.
- Project Gutenberg
More than 12,000 books available free. Poetry
- Electronic Poetry Center
Produced at the University of Buffalo, this site acts as a central gateway to Internet resources in electronic poetry and poetics. The focus is centered on contemporary experimental poetries. DirectoriesDirectories organise Internet resources by subject. The information provided in directories is created, arranged and maintained by people rather than machines.
- Digital Librarian - Literature
A librarian's selection of the best on the Web.
- Librarian's Index to the Internet - Literature & Books
This site lists links to authors, fairytales and fables, fiction by genre, folklore, full text items, literary prizes, literature by country, poetry, romanticism storytelling and writing.
- Voice of the Shuttle
Contains links to author biographies, electronic texts of works, overviews of genres and critical evaluations. Search enginesSearch engines create databases using computer programs called 'spiders', 'robots' or 'crawlers' that trawl the web and other Internet sites and return results to the database. Try these first: UOW sitestop of page
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