Whether you’re looking for guidance and resources to help improve your writing, advice on navigating the writing life, or looking for great examples of writing in your genre to motivate and inspire you, we have something for you to explore! Browse through the great ideas we’ve put together for you below.
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Magazines
Writer’s Magazines
Writer’s Digest
Writer’s Digest magazine is a comprehensive source of writing instruction for writers. Each issue provides advice and insider tips on writing and selling fiction, nonfiction, poetry and scripts.
The Writer
Since 1887 The Writer has provided the motivation, writing techniques, expert tips and compelling author insights that turn good writing into great writing. We’ll help you become a better writer, find markets for your work, understand the business of writing, follow industry news and trends, reach your goals, and more!
WordWorks Magazine (FBCW)
WordWorks showcases the writing and poetry of FBCW members’; provide news and feature coverage of writing and writers in BC with an emphasis on writing techniques and the business of writing; carry news about the Federation of BC Writers, and its work supporting and advocating for writers
Poets & Writers
Founded in 1970, Poets & Writers Magazine is the leading publication of its kind. From its earliest days as a quarterly newsletter with a distribution of a few hundred copies, Poets & Writers Magazine has addressed issues of importance to creative writers, from finding an agent to promoting one’s book. The bimonthly magazine publishes essays on the literary life, profiles of contemporary authors, and the most comprehensive listing of literary grants and awards, deadlines, and prize winners available in print.
Literary Magazines
The Malahat Review
The Malahat Review, established in 1967, is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary Canadian and international works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction as well as reviews of recently published Canadian poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction.
Brick: A Literary Journal
Brick is an international literary journal published twice a year out of Toronto. With a focus on literary non-fiction—and a willingness to stray when our hearts are taken—the magazine prizes the personal voice and celebrates life, art, and the written word with the most invigorating and challenging essays, interviews, translations, memoirs, belles lettres, and unusual musings we can get our hands on. Each issue of Brick brings new essays and insights from the world’s best-loved writers and introduces fresh, emerging voices from all over.
Room Magazine
Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for forty years. Published quarterly by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Society, also known as the Growing Room Collective, Room showcases writing and art by people of all marginalized genders, including cis and trans women, trans men, nonbinary and two spirit people
PRISM International
PRISM international is a quarterly magazine out of Vancouver, British Columbia. Their mandate is to publish the best in contemporary writing and translation from Canada and around the world. Writing from PRISM has been featured in Best American Stories, Best American Essays and The Journey Prize Stories, amongst other noted publications.
Creative Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction magazine is true stories, well told. Each issue demonstrates the depth and versatility of narrative nonfiction and proves that smart, engaging narratives can make any subject fascinating and meaningful. Recent issues have tackled themes ranging from memoir to games, from sex to home.
Poetry Magazine
Poetry Magazine has since been in continuous publication for more than 100 years, making it the oldest monthly magazine devoted to verse in the English language. Today, Poetry regularly presents new work by the most recognized poets, but its primary commitment is still to discover new voices. The complete archive of the magazine is available for free online, as are related audio, video, and monthly podcasts in which editors Lindsay Garbutt and Don Share discuss the current issue, talk to poets and critics, and share their poem selections with listeners.
Digital Writer’s Magazines and Litmags
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Videos
Writing Great Fiction (by The Great Courses via Kanopy)
Writing great fiction isn’t a gift reserved for a talented few – the craft of storytelling can be learned. Even if you don’t dream of penning the next Moby-Dick, you’ll enjoy exploring the elements of fiction. A wealth of exercises will get you writing so that you can practice the many techniques you learn. From evoking a scene to charting a plot, this course is a master class in storytelling.
Becoming a Great Essayist (by The Great Courses via Kanopy)
If you have a clever anecdote, an interesting memory, a new way to explain how something works, or an opinion on a social or political issue, then you have an essay in you. Unlike a novel, history book, or scientific publication, essays provide you with the versatility to express all the various facets that make you you. The concise and direct nature of an essay means that you may tap into your sense of wit, share your individual point of view, persuade others to your perspective, and record a part of your memories for future generations in as many distinct essay forms as you wish.
How to Write Best-Selling Fiction (by The Great Courses via Kanopy)
Get a comprehensive, eye-opening, and illuminating survey of the entire writing process, as well as a full breakdown of how dozens of best-selling authors have implemented best practices in their own writing. As an aspiring author, you will gain a wealth of tools that will not only improve your ability to write, but will also increase your enjoyment of the craft.
LinkedIn Learning Courses:
Writing: The Craft of Storytelling
The Foundations of Fiction
Crafting Dynamic Characters
Conquering Writer’s Block