Links for writers, editors and students of creative writing

Ozlit Table of Contents

Audio Books Direct: bargain audio books including how-to-write books

Victorian Writers' Centre

South Australian Writers' Centre

New South Wales Writers' Centre

Queensland Writers' Centre

Tasmanian Writers' Centre

Australian Capital Territory Writer's Centre

Arbor Books: Ghostwriting, self-publishing and editing services

Crime Writers of Queensland

Broad Editing and Services covers everything from typing to critiquing, from proofreading to copy writing. Caters for writers, businesses, and students; in fact anyone who has ever put words to a page

Fox Editing provides editing services for non-fiction and fiction writers, writing topics and exercises, and the e-zine The Lazy Dog

Take a glimpse behind the scenes of Australia's leading soaps & dramas with writer Coral Drouyn, author of Big Screen, Small Screen

Online dating site offers tips on romantic writing, teen romantic writing, and romantic letter writing.

Writing For Success (aussie site): bi-monthly newsletter and website with lots of advice on technique and marketing

Mollymook Manuscripts (aussie site): specialists in the pre-publishing tasks of assessing, editing, translation editing, rewriting and ghostwriting

A free Internet review of new writing published three times a year from Sydney by the accomplished Australian poet, John Tranter

Hunter Writers' Centre

Danny Yee's Book Reviews

The Australian Guide to the Internet (well-organised listings of top Aussie sites)

Australian Society of Authors

A web of online dictionaries

The On-line Books Page

Word for Word

Institute of Professional Editors (with links to all of the Australian editors societies)

Visible Ink is a collective of students doing the Professional Writing and Editing Course at RMIT and is a well respected and valuable part of Melbourne's Writing community.

The Technical Editors' Eyrie
(A website and free newsletter from an Australian editor for other editors who are, or need to be, working electronically. Much of the material will be relevant to electronic editors in any field. Some of the material will be most relevant to editors in technical fields such as computing and engineering.)

Prestige Proofreading provides comprehensive proofreading, resume and copyediting solutions for students, jobseekers, businesses, writers and publishers.

Artmedia Publishing
(A site on contemporary Australian and New Zealand literary and performing arts)

A collection of specialised search engines to help you with your research

Artslynx: International Writing Resources (a great list of further links for writers)

Choose from more than 25,000 biographies at Biography.com

Choose from more than 9 million used and rare books

Write: a website that provides a manuscript appraisal sevice, free publishing of stories on its website and gives its profits to charity

Project Gutenberg and its thousands of electronic texts of out-of-copyright books

A directory of book sites

An eclectic collection of quality websites covering many aspects of lifestyle and creativity

Australian booksellers - rare, old, out of print books and book search engine - booksandcollectibles.com.au

Acronym Finder