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Writing Resources

Humanities Reference Librarian Janeanne Rockwell-Kincanon 503.838.9493 kincanonj@wou.edu Other Subject Guides Research Coach Request books for purchase WOU ***Department WOU Faculty Web pages

Related guides: Background information Books Databases and Indexes Journals Selected Web sites Tests & Measurement Biography/People Grants & Foundations Organizations Style manuals

 

Background Information

Books

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Directories of and Guidelines for Publishers

Call numbers refer to the reference area unless otherwise indicated.

Literary Marketplace (LMP)                                                                          PN161 .L5

Writer's Market                                                                                            PN161 .W83

Poet's Market                                                                                        PN1059.M3 P63

Ulrich's International Directory of Periodicals                    Z6941 .U5 2001 (5 vols.)

Writer's Northwest Handbook                                                          PN147 .W69 1995

American Directory of Writer's Guidelines                                  PN 147 .A479 1999

Yahoo! Listing of Literary Small Press Publishers

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Databases and Indexes

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Journals

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Literary Magazines (and other types of magazines that publish creative writing within their pages)

At Hamersly Library:

African American Review [P,F] The Americas Review: A Review of Hispanic Literature and Art of the USA [P,F,E,A,C] American Scholar [P,E,C] Antioch Review [P,F,E] Calyx: A Journal of Art & Literature by Women [P,A,NW,C] Critical Quarterly [P,C] Etc.: A Review of General Semantics [P] Explicator [P] Feminist Studies [P,F,A,C] Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies [P,E,F,A] Hudson Review [P,F,E] Kenyon Review [P,F,D,E] Ms. [P,F] National Review [some P] New Republic [some P] New Yorker [P,F,E] Northwest Passage [P,F,A,NW] Northwest Review [P,F,A,NW] Poetry [P] Poetry Northwest [P,NW] The Progressive [some P] Sewanee Review [P,E,F] Southern Humanities Review [P,F,E] Southern Review [P,F,E] Theater [some D] TDR: The Drama Review: The Journal of Performance Studies [some D] TLS: The Times Literary Supplement [P,F,E,C] (located in Newspapers section) Western Humanities Review [P,F,C] Women's Review of Books [some P] (located in Newspapers section) Women's Studies Quarterly [some P,E]

Key to Creative Writing Codes P = Poetry F = Fiction E = Essays (literary) D = Drama A = includes Artwork NW Pacific Northwest focus C = literary criticism, as well as creative writing

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College Literary Magazines from the region

 

Chemeketa Community College: Visions

Clackamas Community College: Clackamas Literary Review

Concordia University: The Promethean

Eastern Oregon University: Calapooya:

Lane CC: Denali

Lewis & Clark College: Entropy

Linfield College: Testmarketed Downpour

Linn-Benton CC:  Eloquent Umbrella

Marylhurst University: M Review                                         

Mt. Hood CC: Perceptions

Oregon State University: Prism  

Pacific University: Pacific Review

Portland Community College: Alchemy

Portland State University: Portland Review Literary Journal 

Reed College: The Hubbub

Rogue CC: Rogue’s Gallery

Southern Oregon University: The West Wind Review

Southwestern Oregon CC: The Beacon

University of Oregon: Northwest Review

University of Portland: Portland Magazine

Western Oregon University: Northwest Passage

Willamette University: Chrysalis

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Poetry Journals (or journals that publish poetry) from the region

 

Tin House Magazine (http://www.tinhouse.com has local retailers)

For Sale from Powell's - See the section on the stores Web site:

http://www.powells.com/subsection/SmallPressLiteraryandPoetryJournals.html

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Search engines & directories

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Tests & Measurement

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Biography/People

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Organizations

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Encyclopedia of Associations - AS 24 .E73  (3 vols.) or the regional counterpart - AS22 .E53

Independent Publishing Resource Center

917 SW Oak Street #218; Portland 503.827.0249

The IPRC maintains a library of over 4,000 self-published and independently produced materials.  The web site includes the library's catalog.

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Style Manuals

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Always check with your professor to make sure that you follow class requirements and citation preferences for a particular assignment.

   APA

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.)
There are two copies in the Reference Collection (call number BF76.7P83 2001). Two other copies are located in the Circulating Collection (second floor) with the same call number.

Electronic Resources (APAStyle.org Web site)
Provides examples of using and citing email, Web sites and pages, and other Internet resources.

APA Publication Manual Crib Sheet (Russ Dewey - Georgia Southern University)

APA Style Resources (at Psych Web)
Provides examples of using and citing email, Web sites and pages, and other Internet resources.

 

 

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