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The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women Writers throughout history. Women have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works. Our goal is to promote awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing. All too often, works by women, and resources about women Writers, are hard to find. We attempt to provide easy access to available on-line information.

The ARTFL French Women Writers Project is a searchable database containing works by French women authors from the 16th to the 19th century. Currently, the Women Writers Project is separate from the main ARTFL database; eventually the texts here will be merged with the ARTFL database. This merge will more than double the holdings of texts by French women Writers in ARTFL, adding more than 100 texts written by women both well known and non-canonical. After the merge, we will also change the search mechanisms of the ARTFL database so that users can search the database with gender as a criterion.

This Web site is devoted to the 'Generación del '27', a group of Spanish poets and writers who achieved fame and notoriety in the early 20th century. The site acts as a good introduction to the writers considered to form part of this generation, explaining the cultural and historical context of their work and their shared philosophies. Most of these writers stayed at Madrid's Residencia de Estudiantes at some point in their lives, considered to be Spain's first cultural centre (Dalí and Buñuel were also among the residencia's famous guests), and shared aesthetic affinities such as the influence of Góngora, cubism, Paul Valéry. The site points out that despite crossovers in trajectories, each poet's work was unique.

This website is a new way to get to know Portuguese writers available in English translation. Click on a region of the interactive map and you will discover writers associated with it through their own lives or their subject matter. The writers have links to bio pages, book reviews and English versions of their books. (Everything you discover through this site is in English).

The Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academic writers. It aims to provide you with examples of some of the phraseological 'nuts and bolts' of writing organised according to the main sections of a research paper or dissertation (see the top menu ). Other phrases are listed under the more general communicative functions of academic writing (see the menu on the left). The resource should be particularly useful for writers who need to report their research work and was designed primarily for academic and scientific writers who are non-native speakers of English.

The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. The main goal of the project is to make texts by pre-Victorian women Writers accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. We support research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship. The website hosts Women Writers Online, a full-text collection of early women's writing in English that contains more than 320 texts published between 1526 and 1850.

This unique, searchable database contains up-to-date profiles of many of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers. Also included are writers from the Republic of Ireland who the British Council has worked with. Included in each author's profile is their biography, bibliography, prizes they have won and their photograph. For many authors, a critical review of their work - written by a Literature expert - is also available.

This Directory is intended to serve as a guide to the rich storehouse of Hebrew authors. Space limitations have imposed restrictions. Those who are included represent a first selection only; it was not possible to cover the entire range of writers working in the Hebrew language. It is our hope to update the Directory in future editions. Furthermore, information on published translations has been condensed in some cases, and works published in anthologies or literary journals have not been included. The writers in the Directory have been consulted as far as possible. We thank those who cooperated and apologize for any errors or omissions that have unwittingly occurred.

a 'personal project'intended to provide access to 'all things Beat' and serves as a useful introduction to the group of American writers who flourished in the 1950s and 60s. The site includes features on most of the Beat writers, from Kenneth Rexroth through Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady, to lesser figures such as Bob Kaufman and Lew Welch - each one giving a brief introduction and a selection from their writings.

This project is based at Wilson Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. The project focuses on important women writers irrespective of genre c. 1400-1700. writers include Christine de Pizan, Diane de Poitiers, Louise Labé, Madeleine de Scudéry, Marguerite de Navarre, Marie de Gournay, and Pernette du Guillet.

This project, hosted by Indiana University, USA, seeks to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century. The works include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. writers represented include Josephine Butler and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon

The 25,000 records in this largely full-text database follow developments in English poetry from the publication of the Shepheardes Calender in 1579 down to Spenser's successors among the nineteenth-century romantics. The archive presents poets as readers - imitators and emulators, critics and biographers - engaged with literary traditions that were complex, dynamic, and embedded in social networks. ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830 begins with series of poems that imitate Spenser and his followers, series that grew and diversified as English literature migrated across time and space. The archive aims to document how each writer was read by contemporaries and successors, gathering over 10,000 poems linked to commentary and biography for more than a thousand writers from all parts of the English-speaking world.

Power Thesaurus is a fast, convenient and comprehensive online thesaurus. It's crowdsourced, meaning it has been built by a community of writers for writers. The synonymic and other associations are suggested, rated and used by its visitors.

The Independent Literary Community consists of noncommercial literary presses and magazines, literary centers, writers conferences and festivals, writers who publish with noncommercial literary presses and magazines, service organizations which support the community, and independent bookstores which are the chief purveyors of noncommercial press books.

The 'Electronic Labyrinth' looks at some of the opportunities presented to writers by the advent of the Internet and hypertext. It analyses the literary tradition of non-linear approaches to narrative, examines recent works that utilize hypertext, and evaluates the hardware and software available to writers.

The 25,000 records in this largely full-text database follow developments in English poetry from the publication of the Shepheardes Calender in 1579 down to Spenser's successors among the nineteenth-century romantics. The archive presents poets as readers - imitators and emulators, critics and biographers - engaged with literary traditions that were complex, dynamic, and embedded in social networks. ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830 begins with series of poems that imitate Spenser and his followers, series that grew and diversified as English literature migrated across time and space. The archive aims to document how each writer was read by contemporaries and successors, gathering over 10,000 poems linked to commentary and biography for more than a thousand writers from all parts of the English-speaking world.

a project of The Public Media Foundation, dramatizes stories by American women writers for national radio broadcast. This site provides classroom resources for teaching the rich tradition of American literature by women. The Scribbling Women project provides an opportunity for teachers, students, library patrons, visually impaired listeners, and a general audience to learn about and enjoy an often neglected part of our cultural heritage. By providing highly produced thirty-minute dramatizations of short stories by these writers, together with related curriculum and lesson plans, the site offers teachers the opportunity to include both the listening experience and a discussion of the story and dramatization within a standard class period.

is a vast, quality, award-winning website devoted to Catalan literature, and will be of immense value to anyone working on, or generally interested in, Catalan studies. It features studies and reviews of individual writers, works, literary movements and genres, overviews of literary histories, and provides an impressive number of annotated links to all these areas as well. The site's excellent directory of Catalan writers (including Ramon Llull, Josep Pla, Mercè Rodoreda, Montserrat Roig, and many more) provides extensive bio-bibliographic details and links to relevant online resources

Today in Literature is a website run by two retired English teachers. They have created a site which features original biographical information on writers, texts and events in literary history. After completing a free registration users can gain restricted access to the archives holding in-depth information on writers and their works.

Scott W. Williams is a Professor of Mathematics at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. Under the name 'Big Mouff', he provides links to a number of his web pages relating to black American writers of novels, poetry, and science fiction. These include substantial individual sites on Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, Alice Walker and Chester Himes, and more limited pages on other writers such as Lucille Clifton and Audre Lorde