Bloomington Resources

  • Constellation Stage and Screen connects audiences through world-class theater and film. Besides their ongoing theatrical and film series, they offer all-ages education and support for the local arts.
  • Indiana Writers Center supports Indiana writers of all ages and backgrounds and reaches out to people whose voices are rarely heard. Classes and workshops taught by published writers provide writing education that encourages creative expression and enhances the communication skills necessary for success in school, in the workplace, and in life.
  • IU Creative Writing Program and Indiana University Writer’s Conference
  • IU Lilly Library is a depository for rare books and collections, located on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington.
  • Pillar Arts aims to strengthen and sustain the arts by connecting artists, cultural organizations, and artistic endeavors with patrons and the community.
  • Women Writing For (a) Change: Writers group serving women and non-binary folks. The group offers workshops, writers retreats, and regular writing circles.

 

Writers Associations

 

Writing Resources

  • Every Writer has been helping writers, publishers, and editors for the last 25 years. They believe creativity is one of the most powerful forces in the world—uplifting us and elevating our lives and relationships.
  • The Journalism Journeyman is a blog that follows the journalism industry and provides tips on careers, schools, and networking.
  • Lannan is dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity, and creativity in support of exceptional contemporary artists, writers, and activists.
  • Money Saving Guide for Authors and Writers has a lot of basic information for writers, from agents to self-publishing. Provides other references. Especially good for young or new writers.
  • National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) takes place every November and has spawned several other month-long frenzies (such as script writing).
  • Poets & Writers is the nation’s largest nonprofit literary organization serving poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. It offers a Grants & Awards database about writing contests.
  • Poets & Writers Writing Prompts The Time Is Now: The Time Is Now offers three new and original writing prompts each week to help you stay committed to your writing practice throughout the year. Whether you’re struggling with writer’s block, looking for a fresh topic, or just starting to write, their archive of writing prompts has what you need. Need a starter pack? Check out their Writing Prompts for Beginners.
  • WritersNet for writers, editors, agents, and publishers

 

 

Playwrights

  • American Theatre Wing:  Includes “Working in the Theatre” interviews with leading playwrights, directors, performers etc., as well as many other services.
  • Bloomington Playwrights Project (BPP)
  • Chicago Dramatists  Since 1979, Chicago Dramatists, the playwrights’ theatre, has devoted all of its resources and programming to its singular mission of developing new plays and nurturing playwrights.
  • Dramatists Guild of America:  the professional association of playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists.
  • Dramatists Sourcebook   Dramatists Sourcebook is the annual bible of opportunities for American playwrights. This is how to figure out what to do with your play after you’ve written it. And until your plays get that first recognition from Literary Managers or Competitions, it probably makes more sense than joining the Dramatists Guild for the Annual DG Resource Directory.
  • Indiana University Master of Fine Arts  in Playwriting. This is an intensive three year program designed for writers with original voices who are committed to making an impact on the profession.
  • Iowa Playwrights Workshop:  The University of Iowa’s MFA Program in Playwriting—is an intensive three-year program dedicated to educating playwrights for the professional theatre.
  • The Journal of the American Voices New Play Institute at Arena Stage.
  • National New Play Network:  (NNPN) is an alliance of not-for-profit professional theatres that champions the development, production and continued life of new plays for the American theatre
  • New Dramatists   is dedicated to the playwright, and pursues a singular mission: to find gifted playwrights and give them the time, space, and tools to develop their craft, so that they may fulfill their potential and make lasting contributions to the theatre. Regarded as a national leader in playwright support and advocacy, New Dramatists has remained a pioneer in the field of new play development since our inception in 1949.
  • New Harmony Project:  The purpose of The New Harmony Project shall be to create, nurture, and promote new works for stage, television and film that sensitively and truthfully explore the positive aspects of life.
  • New Plays Blog at Arena Stage
  • Playbill
  • Playwrights Center in Minneapolis  is a national, nonselective career development organization for playwrights. Center membership is available for $50 a year to anyone who wishes to join.
  • Variety

 

 Specific to Poets

  • Academy of American Poets provides thousands of poems as well as hundreds of poet biographies, essays, interviews, and poetry recordings—with new material being added constantly. Also available are resources such as the National Poetry Map, a national events calendar, and poetry lesson plans for teachers.
  • Anthology of Modern American Poetry started as a multimedia companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000), MAPS has grown over the past decade to more than 30,000 pages of biographies, critical essays, syllabi and images related to 161 poets.
  • Logopoeia
  • Modern American Poetry Site is a comprehensive learning environment and scholarly forum for the study of modern and contemporary American poetry.
  • Poetry Archive: largest online collection of poets reading their work
  • Poetry Foundation is a publisher of Poetry magazine, and an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture.
  • Poetry International Web brings you news, articles, audio and video recordings, interviews and links to other poetry organizations – but, first and foremost, thousands of poems by acclaimed modern poets from all around the world, both in the original language and in English translation.
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