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Internet Writer Resources
=========================

Compiled/Edited/Maintained by L. Detweiler 
  <ld231782@longs.LANCE.colostate.edu>

This is document is primarily a list of magazines and newsletters accepting
submissions by email, and branching out into Internet resources for the
writer in general. Thanks to everyone who has responded. This list will
be updated and maintained as long as *you* send in updates and 
improvements.  See the bottom for information on distribution.

Contents
--------

- How to Submit
- Electronic Submissions List
- MCI Mail Magazine addresses
- A Note to Writers
- A Note to Editors
- Other Electronic Resources
- Most Wanted List
- Credits
- Change History
- Distribution

How to Submit
=============

These addresses are provided through the courtesy of the publisher for
the purpose of submitting queries or complete manuscripts. In all cases it
is best to first *query* the publisher with a short description of your
article idea or outline of an already-written article. In your query, you
should address how your article fits in with the magazine's scope and 
focus. If you are querying multiple editors, do this for each. Make sure
that you are familiar with their general magazine content enough to avoid
wasting their time with irrelevent pieces or ones that have just recently
been covered. If the entry states that the magazine has writer's 
guidelines, ask the editor for those first and adhere to them.

Multiple submissions: in general, if you want to adhere to the utmost
standards of politeness, avoid multiple simultaneous submissions.
Particularly with email you generally receive a very rapid turnaround, 
so that the necessity of multiple submissions is decreased. If you 
absolutely must attempt simultaneous submissions, and one editor accepts 
an article, immediately email to all others that you are withdrawing the 
article.  Explicitly noting the status of your submission as exclusive
or simultaneous is a good idea.  Do not carbon copy send a single article 
with no individual attention to the receiving editors.

If you learned of the email address from this source, please tell the
editor that. It will encourage the editor to maintain the capability,
spur other editors to set up their own email addresses, and in turn
help expand your own list of possible and alternative outlets for your
writing.

Electronic Submissions List
===========================

These magazines are published monthly unless otherwise noted. The
`content' category describes the general content and requested writing.
`compensation' describes the remuneration policies (if any). `rights'
describes the rights to the material that are sold to the publisher.
`contact' is the email address of the publisher, editor, or the general
submission address.

Note: the accuracy of this list is not guaranteed. In particular, the
rights involved in a particular `sale' may be variable or negotiable. Make
sure you understand the terms of the arrangement with the publisher. If you
are interested in only certain kinds of contracts (such as retaining the
copyright, which is usual the usual case but not guaranteed) be sure to 
tell the editor.

- The Blind Spot

  Type: small press 'zine (?)
  Content: Duke's fantasy, SF, and horror fiction. 10K words or
    less. Artwork.
  Compensation: $10 plus contributors copies.
  Rights: (?)
  Contact: awhit@acpub.duke.edu (Andy Whitfield)

- Circlet Press

  Type: small press 'zine, published anthologies (?)
  Content: Erotic science fiction and fantasy.  Short stories primarily 
    under 10K words. Anthologies. Other subcategories.
  Compensation: half-cent per word. Royalties for single-author anthologies
    negotiated on cases by case basis. 
  Rights: one-time anthology rights.
  Comments: Write for guidelines or booklist. Query first.
  Contact: ctan@world.std.com

- Claustrophobia

  Type: small press newsletter
  Content: social issues, privacy (?)
  Compensation: no money, but `credit, exposure, samples for 
    portfolio'
  Rights: nonsimultaneous publication.
  Contact: dbruedig@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu

- CONNECT

  Type: small press magazine
  Content:  ``Covering the major commercial online services,
    Internet/Usenet and smaller Bulletin Board System networks, CONNECT 
    focuses on telecommunications from a user-oriented perspective.''
  Compensation: ``Authors are paid a flat rate of $75 for mini-reviews.
    Authors are paid between $100 and $300 for feature articles, depending on
    the length, subject matter and newsworthiness of the article.  The longer
    the article and the more complex the subject matter, typically, the more
    the payment for the submission.''
  Rights: (?)
  Comments: seeks articles and reviews.
  Contact: pegasus@grex.ann-arbor.mi.US

- CYBERSPACE VANGUARD

  Type: electronic magazine
  Content: ``News and Views of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Universe 
    carries interviews, feature articles, and lots'o'news on current happenings 
    on the science fiction, fantasy, animation, and comics genres.''
  Compensation: ``Right now we cannot pay our writers, but we are trying to 
    line up a publisher for a paper version, and once that happens we will be 
    attempting to pay people.''
  Rights: ``We "buy" one-time rights, but the remuneration policy may change at 
    any time.''
  Comments: ``We are seeking articles and interviews from writers who can be 
    fun without being long-winded. Write for guidelines, but in the meantime a 
    query is preferred to an article.''  See etext.archive.umich.edu:
    /pub/Zines/Cyberspace.Vanguard for past issues.
  Contact: Submissions should be send to xx133@cleveland.freenet.edu. Other 
    correspondence should be sent to cn577@cleveland.freenet.edu.

- FringeWare Review

  Type: electronic magazine
  Content: ``Our centroid (th/m)eme [is] "Building Community around a Fringe
    Marketplace'' ``sidebars, tutorials, interviews and reviews, with tasty, 
    mind-twisting fiction as synthesis''
  Compensation: ``We pay up to US$0.03 per word plus byline and two copies 
    of each issue in which you appear. We pay the full amount for work we 
    choose to run which: (a) hasn't appeared elsewhere, (b) fits within our
    issues' themes, (c) and meets word count criteria; also, you must provide 
    an email address for the byline. Otherwise, we'll negotiate. We pay US$20 
    per page for artwork and comix, or do trade-outs as mentioned above. In 
    the case of comix, we do not need the work to be first run.''
  Rights: (?)
  Comments: ``We limit our magazine to 48 pages, at least 35% of which contains
    catalog, subvertising, editorials, letters and administrivia, so writers 
    only have 25-odd pages, less artwork and comix, in which to express their
    collective brilliance. We seek terse, opinionated, first-person, 
    active-voice, period.'' 
  Contact: <fringeware@wixer.bga.com>

- GRIST

  Type: electronic magazine
  Content:  a magazine of poetry, prose, essays and articles
  Compensation: (?)
  Rights: (?)
  Comments: Well-crafted prose, experimental prose, discussions of network 
    prose, interactive/collaborative language, all considered and solicited 
    for publication.  FTP or Gopher to etext.archive.umich.edu/pub/Poetry/Grist
  Contact: mail subscriptions and work submissions to <fowler@phantom.com>.

- The Lighthouse

  Type: monthly magazine, email version
  Content: focuses on various forms of contemporary Christian music (Rock 
    to Rap to Metal to Adult Contemporary to Alternative to Dance).  Artist 
    spotlights and album reviews.  The ministry of Christian music.
  Compensation: `A BIG thank you'
  Rights: no exclusive rights requested
  Comments: write for more details and text-only email version.
  Contact: JWS@SABINE.PSU.EDU

- Paladin Science Fiction Group

  Type: anthologies and novels
  Content: ``Fiction anthologies in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
    for mature readers; erotic science fiction, fantasy, and horror for
    adult readers. Length: supershort to novella. Maximum 10K words.
    Novels in science fiction, fantasy and horror 40K-60K words for
    general to mature audience.''
  Compensation: One cent per word, two copies for poetry.
  Rights: (?)
  Comments: Do not submit without reading guidelines first. Both
    electronic queries and simultaneous submissions OK. No electronic
    submissions in North America.
  Contact: S G Johnson <corsair@camelot.com>

- Quanta

  Type: online magazine
  Content: `science fiction by amateur and professional authors around
    the world and across the net.'
  Compensation: publication & exposure to ~2200 subscribers
  Rights: (?)
  Comments: ASCII and Postcript versions. See ftp.eff.org:
    /journals/Quanta
  Contact: submissions to <quanta@andrew.cmu.edu>.

- Sixth Dragon (prev. Mushroom Opera)
  
  Type: student-run magazine published twice a year at Michigan State 
    U. at Lansing
  Content: generally science fiction and fantasy 
  Compensation: contibutor's copy
  Rights: (?)
  Contact: David Scott Martin <martind@student.msu.edu> or
    <bard@cemvax.msu.edu>

- Sound News and Arts

  Type: local small press 'zine
  Content: ``Accept writing of ALL types, mainly about arts, music and 
    interviews with interesting and innovative people.  Also accept 
    poetry, short stories and artwork. SOUND is a local publication and 
    is pretty open content-wise.  Geared toward the younger, more 
    energetic crowd.''
  Compensation: ``No payment as of yet (save for a few free issues), 
    planned payment in late '93.''
  Rights: (?)
  Comments: uuencoded or FTPed submissions to sunsite.unc.edu in the 
    /pub/multimedia/pictures/OTIS/Incoming directory).  Submissions should 
    be in ASCII text  format (or TIF, GIF or JPEG for pictures.
  Contact: sound-na@unomaha.edu (or ed@sunsite.unc.edu)

- Wilde Oaks

  Content: South Bay (San Jose, CA) Lesbian and Gay Community Center literary
     journal.  Accepts fiction (less than 6K words preferred), prose, poety,
     photography, and artwork from gay, Lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or
     supportive people.  Erotica is okay, but no pornography.  Submission 
     guidelines are available.
  Compensation: One contributor copy
  Rights: One-time publication rights
  Contact: jrd@frame.com (Jim Drew)

- WIRED

  Type: monthly national magazine
  Content: Cutting edge computer technology, `techno-culture
    and hardware' (?)
  Compensation: (?)
  Rights: (?)
  Comments: Write for guidelines.
  Contact: submissions@wired.com, editor@wired.com

MCI Magazine Addresses
======================

The following entries were retreived from the public MCI electronic yellow
pages. They are being included in this FAQ with *no* prior warning to the
publishers. The FAQ author has emailed a few of them with no result. `Your
mileage may vary.' The author would greatly like to receive more information
(contents, compensation, rights, comments) on these outlets to move the 
entries into the previous section, and hear of any `success stories' in 
receiving *any* response (even simple submission guidelines) from these 
addresses.

To send mail to these addresses from the internet, use the form 
[x]@mcimail.com where [x] is the ID given below. DO NOT INCLUDE THE HYPHEN 
in the address.

(Generated ~8/93)

`MAGAZINE' search

           MCI ID   Name                       Organization    Location
           596-6620 Avionics Magazine          Avionics Magazi Potomac, MD
           371-5189 Biotechnology Magazine     Nature Publishi New York, NY
           250-0135 BYTE Magazine                              Peterborough, N
           411-2547 C Magazine                 Softbank Corp   JAPAN
           323-9250 CIO Magazine               CIO Magazine    Framingham, MA
           379-1932 Computer Graphics World Ma Computer Graphi Westford, MA
           324-3008 Computer Shopper Magazine  Computer Shoppe Titusville, FL
           393-3639 ComputerLand Magazine                      Pleasanton, CA
           339-5237 CPI Purchasing Magazine    Cahners Publish Newton, MA
           280-8275 Data Based Advisor Magazin Data Based Advi San Diego, CA
           416-2157 Data Communications Magazi McGraw Hill     New York, NY
           335-7244 DBMS Magazine              DBMS/PCA        San Mateo, CA
           477-1898 Dyna Magazine              Softbank Corpor JAPAN
           391-5774 EDN Magazine               EDN Magazine    BLANK
           427-6021 Electronic Products Magazi Electronic Prod Garden City, NY
           582-3736 Epicurean Magazine         Epicurean Magaz San Fernand, CA
           601-1044 Food Product Design Magazi Food Product De Northbrook, IL
           312-3728 Foreign Policy Magazine    Foreign Policy  Washington, DC
           313-3729 Foreign Policy Magazine    Foreign Policy  Washington, DC
           598-8565 Fortune Magazine           Fortune Magazin San Francis, CA
           442-3685 Frequent Flyer Magazine    Frequent Flyer  New York NY
           312-4471 IN Magazine                MCIC            Washington DC
           319-3071 Interior Design Magazine   Interior Design New York, NY
           376-9627 Interiors Magazine         Interiors Magaz New York, NY
    REMOTE 567-3913 LAN Magazine               Computer Pubs   AUSTRALIA
           503-2941 Laser Focus World Magazine Laser Focus Wor Westford, MA
           422-5920 MacUser Magazine           MacUser         Foster City CA
           355-9510 Maintenance Technology Mag Maintenance Tec Barrington, IL
           564-3622 Metroland Magazine         Metroland Magaz Albany, NY
           387-0963 Modern Motor Magazine      Modern Motor Ma Australia
           445-5851 NewMedia Magazine                          San Mateo, CA
           318-3782 Omni Magazine                              New York, NY
           468-2934 Packaging Magazine         Cahners Publish Des Plaines IL
           157-9301 PC Magazine                PC Magazine     New York, NY
           447-7466 Popular Science Magazine   Popular Science New York Ny
           413-3658 Prepared Foods Magazine    Prepared Foods  Chicago, IL
           392-5775 Purchasing Magazine        Purchasing Maga BLANK
           514-3313 Risk Magazine Ltd.         Risk Magazine L Chicago, IL
           500-0238 Sail Magazine              Cahners         Newton MA
           317-3309 Smithsonian Magazine       Smithsonian Mag Washington, DC
           277-9362 Software Magazine          Software Magazi Westboro, MA
           556-3896 Solutions PC Magazine      PC Magazine     New York NY
           103-5034 Teleconnect Magazine                       New York, NY
           494-4254 Telephony Magazine                         Chicago, IL
           402-6156 The Kfar Chabad Weekly Mag Tzeirei Chabad  ISRAEL
           519-6247 Treasury Magazine          Treasury Magazi Boston, MA
           380-3905 Turbo Magazine             Kipp E. Kington Huntington Beac
           424-1434 Variety Magazine           Variety Magazin Lakebluff IL

`PUBLISHING' search

           MCI ID   Name                       Organization    Location
           527-0613 A I Publishing             A I Publishing  Japan
           586-1732 American International Pub American Int'l  Harrison, NY
           471-0440 Axel Springer Japan Publis                 Tokyo
           543-0709 Bloc Publishing            Bloc Publishing Coral Gables, F
           561-9762 Brana Publishing           Brana Publishin Pacific Pal, CA
           594-5629 Cardmember Publishing Corp                 Stamford, CT
           531-2388 CFO Publishing Corp.       CFO Publishing  Boston, MA
           583-9841 Clark Publishing Inc.      Clark Publishin Lexington, KY
           458-2083 Cowles Publishing Company  Cowles Publishi Spokane, WA
           589-5427 First Image Demand Publish                 Norcross, GA
           572-8673 HHO Publishing             HHO Publishing  Los Angeles, CA
           220-0783 Hitchcock Publishing Co.   Hitchcock Publi Carol Stream IL
           497-2767 Hortideas Publishing                       Gravel Switch
           581-6677 Indemp Publishing          Indemp Publishi Casa Grande, AZ
           294-3992 Information Publishing Cor Info Publishing Houston, TX
           293-5313 Isthmus Publishing Company Isthmus Publish Madison, WI
           422-1911 Kluwer Academic Publishing Kluwer Academic Norwell, MA
           266-2543 Kohgaku-Sha Publishing Co. Kohgaku-Sha Pub JAPAN
           380-2809 Laurin Publishing Co., Inc Laurin Publishi Pittsfield, MA
           583-5230 Linmore Publishing Inc.    Linmore Publish Barrington, IL
           399-2652 Macmillan Computer Publish Macmillan Compu Carmel, IN
           452-8706 Malakoff Publishing        Malakoff Publis Shepherdstown
           605-4375 Meister Publishing         Meister Publish Willoughby, OH
           273-9287 M.M. Cole Publishing Co.   M.M. Cole Publi Chicago, IL
           557-0450 Mondadori Publishing       Mondadori Publi New York, NY
           294-3756 M&T Publishing             Administration  Redwood City
           292-3754 M&T Publishing             Pete May        Redwood City
           489-8359 Nelson Publishing                          Nokomis, FL
           350-9803 Olympia Publishing, Inc.   Olympia Publish Little Rock, AR
           332-7597 Phillips Publishing        -               Potomac, MD
           542-5761 Phillips Publishing        Phillips Publis Potomac, MD
           245-8579 Pinpoint Publishing        PINPOINT Publis Glen Ellen, CA
           602-7175 Pinpoint Publishing                        Santa Rosa, CA
           533-8478 PRENTICE HALL COMPUTER PUB PRENTICE HALL C CARMEL, IN
           297-6976 Roger Wagner Publishing. I Roger Wagner Pu Santee, CA
           340-4180 Rush Franklin Publishing   Rush Franklin P Douglaston, NY
           289-9011 Software Publishing Corpor P.R. Dept.      Mt. View
           273-0600 Software Publishing Corpor Quarterly Rept. Mt. View CA
           264-0158 Software Publishing Corpor Software Publ   Mt. View
           566-5907 Spencer & Associates Publi Spencer & Assoc Melville, NY
           426-7566 Step-By-Step Publishing                    PEORIA, IL
           586-7891 Surburban Publishing       Surburban       Wayne, PA
           493-3568 The Wichita Eagle & Beacon                 Wichita, KS
           581-5678 Troy Publishing            Troy Publishing Troy, NY
           559-7594 UpClose Publishing                         El Granola, CA
           509-3687 Walsworth Publishing Co.,                  Marcelini, MO
           240-3935 West Publishing Company    St. Paul        Eagan, MN
           241-3936 West Publishing Company    St. Paul        Eagan, MN
           242-3940 West Publishing Company    St. Paul        Eagan, MN
           243-3938 West Publishing Company    St. Paul        Eagan, MN
           243-3941 West Publishing Company    St. Paul        Eagan, MN
           244-3942 West Publishing Company    St. Paul        Eagan, MN
           245-3927 West Publishing Company    St. Paul        Eagan, MN
           245-3930 West Publishing Company    St. Paul        Eagan, MN
           246-3928 West Publishing Company    St. Paul        Eagan, MN
           247-3932 West Publishing Company    St. Paul        Eagan, MN
           248-3933 West Publishing Company    St. Paul        Eagan, MN
           249-3918 West Publishing Company    St. Paul        Eagan, MN
           273-5540 West Publishing Company    Schoolbooks     St. Paul, MN
           284-6776 West Publishing Company    West Publishing St. Paul, MN
           314-0105 West Publishing Company    West Services,  Seattle, WA
           326-8021 West Publishing Company    COP-Collections St. Paul, MN
           543-3405 Western Publishing                         Racine, WI
           218-4001 WGE Publishing, Inc.                       Hancock, NH
           173-2546 Wordware Publishing, Inc.  Wordware Publis Plano, TX
           350-2648 Ziff Davis Publishing      PC Computing    Boston, MA

`PRESS' search

           MCI ID   Name                       Organization    Location
           597-3297 Capra Press                Capra Press     Santa Barba, CA
           259-0558 Clarity Press, Inc.                        Atlanta, GA
           593-8735 Daily Press                Dow Jones & Co, NEWPORT NEWS, V
           507-9207 Global Financial Press     Global Financia NY, NY
           403-1178 Gum Tree Press             Cowles Magazine Unionville PA
           582-3930 Islamorada Free Press      Islamorada Free Islamorada, FL
           584-5231 Long & Strider Press       Long & Strider  Scottsdale, AZ
           574-6460 Magnetic Press, Inc.       Magnetic Press  New York, NY
           587-6181 Micro Pro Litera Press     Micro Pro Liter San Francis, CA
           263-5152 Microsoft Press                            Redmond, WA
           381-5247 New York Press             New York Press  New York, NY
           533-9561 The Mercantile Press, Inc. Mercantile Pres Wilmington, DE
           595-4427 TRAPLESS SANDS PRESS       TRAPLESS SANDS  PALO ALTO, CA
           295-9492 University of California P University of C Berkeley, CA
           517-0393 Western Computer Press                     Tualatin, OR
           546-5105 Westview Press                             Boulder, CO


A Note to Writers
=================

Email submissions have many advantages. In addition to the fast and
reliable transmission, the editor may give more rapid turnaround to
email inquiries. The opportunity for writer-editor communication and
feedback is increased.  The ability to find the specific outlet for
a particular piece is improved.  Also, in comparison to the telephone,
people can read their mail whenever they want instead of at random
interruptions. They can measure their responses carefully and archive
them for future reference. For submissions, the intermediate step of
rekeying typewritten text is largely eliminated.

Please treat this capability of email submission with the utmost respect.
If you abuse it you may jeopardize your own and fellow writer's future
opportunities.  An editor may decide capriciously that only junk comes
in electronically, and ignore or remove the capability. Or, the editor
may pay special attention to all the gems of articles that can be
discovered and polished there.  Always treat the editor with kind 
regard. If an article is rejected, simply resubmit elsewhere, make
changes, or abandon it. The email address is *not* a hotline to flame
or harass editors.

Whenever you hear of a new address, please inform the author of this
list. You do not gain anything by withholding it from your fellow 
writers. Everyone benefits when the list is thorough and complete.
A comprehensive list of outlets encourages competition between them 
for your writing based on rights and remuneration policies, similar
to an electronic Yellow Pages.

Also, feel free to approach editors you know about the idea of setting
up the service of internet email submission addresses. Tell them that 
their competitors have set up the system and that there are many 
potential benefits, perhaps ultimately eliciting improved reader 
satisfaction and interest.

A Note to Editors
=================

From the current perspective, you are in one of two categories: a 
backward Luddite or a visionary pioneer, depending on whether you have
never heard of internet email or are utilizing it and supporting 
submissions through it. (That is a joke.) Sincerely however, in the
near future conducting writing transactions over the internet may
become the medium of choice for many markets. Of course, there 
are disadvantages along with the grand incentives to support
this capability. Many editors however have found the ability
to receive submissions and queries via email to be immensely 
valuable in cultivating future issues' articles. In some cases, you
may be competing with them directly for knowledgeable and interesting
articles and writers. If a writer sees two outlets with similar content
but one with more ideal rights or remuneration arrangements, which will
s/he submit to?

The author of this list strongly encourages you to support and solicit
articles via email.  It may allow you to interact and direct your 
writers more effectively and less stressfully. It may allow you to 
improve the quality of submissions by expanding the available pool and 
increasing the target and focus of individual pieces.  Ultimately it
may make you more responsive to readers than your competition.
Potentially, both the writer, editor, and reader benefit from the
dynamic arrangement. All this is written in speculative terms, however,
because it is not guaranteed. You may find that irrelevant or useless
queries increase, but even so a wider selection pool may render that
unproblematic.

Other Resources
===============

  Newsgroups
  ----------

  alt.journalism
    Journalists and journalism students.

  alt.prose, alt.prose.d
    Predecessors to rec.arts.prose, lower distribution. Disscussion in
    alt.prose.d only.

  alt.zines
    `zines' or small low-circulation low-cost newsletters of fringe 
     elements

  misc.writing
    Accomplished and beginning writers. Submissions, queries, markets,
    etc.

  rec.arts.prose
    Posted fiction for review. Discussion of posted articles.

  rec.arts.poems
    Posting and discussion of original poetry.

  rec.arts.sf.written
    Written science fiction. Great authors. Writing style. (?)

  rec.mag
    Magazines (?)

  rec.mag.fsfnet
    Fantasy and science fiction discussion, movies and television (?)


  Mailing Lists
  -------------

  - MAGAZINE

    Topics: ``Expert opinion or help from established scholars and
      professionals.  Covering the history, current state and future 
      prospects of the American Magazine, and issues related to magazine
      publishing. Primary focus is journalistic, but also addresses other
      magazine-publishing matters of economic (management, marketing,
      circulation, production, research), technological, historical and 
      social importance.''
    Subscription: send JOIN MAGAZINE <YourFirstName> <YourLastName> in 
      message body to <COMSERVE@VM.ITS.RPI.EDU> or (BITNET) 
      <COMSERVE@RPITSVM.BITNET>
    Moderator: David Abrahamson <ABRAHAMSON@ACFCLUSTER.NYU.EDU>

  - Small Press Mailing List

    Topics: ``Concerns of authors and editors involved with the small
      press, both of books and of magazines. Printers and services,
      announcements, calls for submissions, bookstores, discussion of
      acceptance and rejections, book and signing events,readings,
      `war stories', advice for writers, editors, self-publishers.''
    Subscription: send your human-readable *request* to join or leave to
      <small-press-request@world.std.com>. *Posts* to the list go to
      <small-press@world.std.com>.
    Moderator: <ctan@world.std.com> (Cecilia M Tan)

  - Writer's Workshop
    
    Topics: ``Although started for discussion of writing, submissions, 
      critiques, various mind-joggers, and exercises also are passed 
      among the participants.  All postings are archived and available to 
      participants.''
    Subscription: The workshop is self-serve - send email to 
      <listserv@vm1.nodak.edu> (or <listserv@ndsuvm1.bitnet>) with the 
      message SUBSCRIBE WRITERS <yourfirstname> <yourlastname>.

  - Fiction and Writing lists

    Topics: Fiction Writers Workshop. Fiction list is for submissions and
      critiques, Writing list is for general discussions, new member 
      introductions, and announcements of various sorts. Tone is 
      professional. Most members actually pursue publication. Usually in
      science fiction or fantasy genres.
    Subscription: FICTION@PSUVM.PSU.EDU, WRITING@PSUVM.PSU.EDU. Also,
      <NOVELS-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> for novels and and non-fiction and poetry
      <NFICTN-L@american.edu>.

  - Poetry list

    Topics: ``This list is designed to be a forum where original poetry
      (either complete or in progress) may be posted by members
      interested in critique-style discussion, examination, and
      analysis of their work. ...It is assumed that all members will at
      some point post an original piece, and not merely assume an
      exclusively responsive role.''
    Subscription: <POETRY@GONZAGA.EDU>

  - Screen Writing Discussion List

    Topics: ``a discussion list of the joy and challenge of screen writing 
      for film and TV ... Any topic of interest to writers or potential 
      writers is appropriate (i.e. format, story ideas, dialogue, 
      characters, agents, producers, directors, actors, studios, problems 
      and/or solutions).''
    Subscription: <SCRNWRIT@TAMVM1.BITNET>

  - Creative Writing Pedagogy for Teachers and Students

    Topics: ``a place to discuss how and why creative writing is being
      taught at colleges and universities, including the role it plays
      in the curriculum, the history of creative writing programs, the
      shape and flavor of creative writing courses, and the influence
      it has or should have on students' lives''
    Subscriptions: <CREWRT-L@MIZZOU1.BITNET>

  - Megabyte University

    Topics: ``an unarchived list primarily for professors, teachers, 
      graduate students and administrators involved in teaching composition 
      using computers.topics of discussion have included software 
      descriptions and comparisons for use in teaching composition, 
      determining real audience for composition students, and 
      announcements of upcoming conferences, both actual and virtual. 
      Many of the members of this list also participate in the MediaMOO 
      weekly online conferences and other activities''
    Subscriptions: <MBU-L@TTUVM1.BITNET>
    Moderator: Fred Kemp

  - The Composition Digest

    Topics: ``a weekly newsgroup for the study of computers and writing,
      specifically writing instruction in computer based classrooms."
    Subscriptions: <COMPOS01@ULKYVX.BITNET>
    
  - Purdue Rhetoric

    Topics: ``Rhetoric, Professional Writing, and Language Discussion 
      Group - a scholarly forum for discussion of rhetoricand composition,
      professional writing, and language research.
    Subscriptions: <PURTOPOI@PURCCVM.BITNET>

  - English Forum

    Topics: ``An archived discussion forum on electronic communication in
      instruction and research of English, writing, and literature.''
    Subscriptions: <ENGLMU-L@MIZZOU11.BITNET>

  - WIOLE

    Topics: Writing Intensive Online Learning Environment, an archived
      list for writing instructors.
    Subscriptions: <WIOLE-L@MIZZOU1.BITNET>
     
  - Writing Center

    Topics: ``A discussion list for directors of academic writing centers,
      including evaluating software for writing instruction, use of tutors, 
      and other issues specific to writing centers.''
    Subscriptions: <W-CENTER@TTUVM1.BITNET>


  FTP sites
  ---------

    A large collection of electronic `zines' and other miscellaneous 
    electronic text files can be found on the University of Michigan 
    archives, etext.archive.umich.edu.

    Other writing-related FAQs can be found on rtfm.mit.edu:
    /pub/usenet/news.answers/writing.

   Miscellaneous
   -------------
     A more accurate list of electronic `zines' is posted intermittently
     to alt.mag, alt.zines, posted by John Labovitz <johnl@netcom.com>.

     ``Electronic Writers' Workshops and Online Education in Creative 
     Writing'' (Bowers & Butcher, 1993) is available from gwuvm.gwu.edu:
     /WRITERS.RESOURC. Compilation of resources for writers and for 
     writing teachers on the national network services, part 1. Part 2,
     virtual classrooms and tools for collaborative writing projects. 
     Part 3, `a new breed of literatary magazines that are written, 
     published, and read exclusively by network users...finding a 
     readership beyond the best hopes of many professional and academic 
     literatary magazines' editors.' Part 4, copyrights, what constitutes
     publication in the electronic realm, antidotes to `remarkable 
     examples of misinformation'.

Most Wanted List
================

This list can grow and prosper if you help keep it updated, use the
information herein wisely, and help recruit new sources. Please do
NOT send random editor email addresses unless those editors specifically
approve of advertising them. Currently most wanted:

- More popular newstand magazines, esp. paying ones. Asimov's, Analog,
  etc.
- Old discussion on MAGAZINE email list about email submission 
  addresses.
- FTP sites.
- any elaboration on places with `(?)'

When submitting updates to the list, PLEASE include all known information
in the categories recorded. That is: email address, description of the 
general content of the outlet, remuneration policies, and the rights
involved. The editor of this list prefers outlets that are `well
established' and are not likely to disappear. Also, another list by J.
Labovitz better tracks electronic `zines'. See `Other Resources' above.

Send comments to <ld231782@longs.lance.colostate.edu>.

Credits
=======

Special thanks to the following people for contributing especially 
valuable information to this list:

Kyle Conway <kconway@nyx.cs.du.edu>
Ed Stastny <ed@cwis.unomaha.edu>
Cecilia M Tan <ctan@world.std.com>
David Abrahamson <ABRAHAMSON@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU>
Laura Packard <ae099@freenet.buffalo.edu>
John Bowers <JBOWERS@gwuvm.gwu.edu>

Special thanks to the forward-seeing editors who have the patience,
vision, and expertise to support email submissions.

Change History
==============

  v1.3 (11/93)

    Grist addition. Fix of the Lansing vs. Ann Arbor (thanks many 
    people!) Fringware Review. Fiction & Writing lists. Bowers papers
    on cyberspatial writing resources FTP pointers (highly recommended).
    Poetry list. Screen Writing list. Creative Writing Pedagogy list.
    Megabyte University. Composition Digest list. Purdue Rhetoric list.
    Writing Intensive Online Learning Environment list. Writing Center
    list. (New mailing lists added are from Bowers paper, thanks!)

  v1.2 (9/93)

    MCI Mail magazine addresses included. Posting frequency changed.
    Glitch that posted to `misc.writers' oblivion instead of 
    `misc.writing'.

  v1.1 (8/93)

    Writer's Workshop list, Cyberspace Vanguard added.

  v1.0 (8/93)

    Wilde Oakes, Lighthouse added. Posted to *.answers groups & 
    archived at rtfm.mit.edu.

  v0.6 (8/93)
    
    Added `rights,' `comments,' `type' categories.  Reordered 
    list categories. Added small-press list.  Paladin and Circlet added.

  v0.5 (7/93)

    Basics of email address, newsgroup list, editor & writer notices, 
    submission protocol, etc. in place after initial query on 
    misc.writing.

Distribution
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  FTP
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    This FAQ is available from the standard FAQ server rtfm.mit.edu via 
    FTP in the file /pub/usenet/news.answers/writing/resources

  Email
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    Email requests for FAQs go to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with commands 
    on lines in the message body, e.g. `help' and `index'.

  Usenet
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    This FAQ is posted every 21 days to the groups misc.writing,
    rec.arts.prose,rec.arts.sf.written,misc.answers,rec.answers,
    news.answers.

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