At Meridian Writing we always like to promote other ethical writing sites. Please find below our current recommendations:
academi - the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society for Authors.
CompetitionsForWinners - an Australian-based website listing writing competitions, prizes, awards and publishing opportunities
firstwriter.com - provides access to details of hundreds of publishers, literary agents, writing competitions and magazines.
Just A Contest - US-based website dedicated to writing contests, both in the US and worldwide.
S@ve As Writers' Group - Canterbury-based writing group offering news, workshops and competitions. They currently have a 'Siege of Canterbury' competition running with a deadline of 15 September (accepting peotry and prose). See their site for full details.
Winning Writers - finds and creates resources for poets and writers.
Words Magazine - Voluntary run website for worldwide writers and readers of short stories. New and unpublished authors encouraged. Publishes quarterly interactive magazine. Website has lots of resources, competitions, etc. Profits in aid of charity (Help For Heroes). Order a free sample via website.
WritersReign - the place for aspiring writers, with listings of writing competitions, resources and markets.
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Claire Rowland's Piroska- a collection of three Adult fairy tales - available on Amazon. Claire is a previous winner of our competitions and this is her first forray into the big, bad world of published work.
Andrew Goodman's third short story collection - available here on Amazon for Kindle.
It has four more short stories with a central theme of the undead: a vengeful spirit; a new vampire; a very old vampire; and some ghosts who want coffee with their biscuits.
Andrew Goodman's second short story collection - available here on Amazon for Kindle.
It has four short stories with a central theme on the gap between right and wrong in crime.
Andrew Goodman's first short story collection - available here on Amazon for Kindle.
It has four short stories all with the theme on the consequences of cause and effect.