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A few good things from around the internet

Writing craft resources

 •  Shaelin Writes
 •  make zines tell stories
 •  KJ Charles blog
 •  Kathleen Jennings’s Observation Journal
  • “The Sonics of Storytelling” — interview with Premee Mohamed
 • “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” by Ursula K. Le Guin

Writing community

 • Wholehearted Writers
 • Online Writers’ Accountability and Support Group
 • Writing Prompt Group
 • The Festival of Literary Diversity

Conscious and inclusive language resources

 • Writing the Other
 • Rabbit with a Red Pen: Conscious & Inclusive Language and  Representation and Authenticity Reading
 • Radical Copyeditor
 • “Writing the Margins from the Centre and Other Moral Geometries” by Amal El-Mohtar
 • “On Seeing and Being Seen: The Difference Between Writing with Empathy and Writing with Love” by Alicia Elliott
 • Salt and Sage Books: Sensitivity and Expert Consultants
• D. Scott Edits: Conscious and Inclusive Language in Academic Contexts online course 
• Decolonizing the Writing World: A Primer of Things to Read and Watch from Firefly Creative Writing

Some very good stories you can read for free

“The Birds I Pull” by Sharang Biswas
“On the English Approach to the Study of History” by E. Saxey
“By Salt, by Sea, by Light of Stars” by Premee Mohamed 
“A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Apocalypse Go Down” by A.D. Sui 
“Flower, Daughter, Soil, Seed” by Eugenia Triantyfallou 
“Ivy, Angelica, Bay” by C.L. Polk
“By the Far Salt Lake” by Portia Elan
“Waters of Versailles” by Kelly Robson 
“To Embody a Wildfire Starting” by Iona Datt Sharma 
“Sappho Sees Us at the Castle of Mytilene” by Shaelin Bishop

A black and white illustration of a woman sitting in a window reading. Her knees are up and a book is balanced on them. She has short dark hair. There is a border of lilies and leaves around the window.
Reader Illustration by Gabrielle Haynes
A black and white illustration of a typewriter with a blank page in it. Lilies bloom behind it and there is a cup on tea on the right side and a fish-shaped vase on the left.
Flowering typewriter Illustration by Gabrielle Haynes
A black and white illustration of a library wall covered in books. There is a ladder leaning against the shelves with a cat on top. To the left is a window with a seat holding cushions in front of it.
Library, with cat Illustration by Gabrielle Haynes