Here are some links that might be useful to writers and readers alike.
Writing Courses
Through The Milk House (described below), Ryan teaches two 2-hour online writing seminars a year on various aspects of the craft of writing. Past topics have included The Ol’ He Said, She Said: Writing Strong Dialogue, Purple Doesn’t Look Good On Anyone: Writing Emotion, And it Goes Bang: How to Write Action, and many others.
Price: $15
More information here.
Rural Writers Meet Rural Readers
Rural life is both singular and unique across geography, while at the same time having aspects that are shared among those who experience it, regardless of where they come from. Ryan Dennis founded The Milk House to help showcase those who write about rural subjects and connect them with those who want to read about them. The site features high-quality fiction, nonfiction, poetry and music, often—but not exclusively—about the countryside.
Support Independent Publishing
Independent publishing is the sole of literature. They do the hard work of taking chances and finding new voices. Choose your next book from one these presses on The Largest List of Independent Publishers.
Free Writing Tips and Author Support
Sign up to a weekly newsletter on The Jessica Maybury that offers great advice, prompts and inspiration on the writing process. Coming from a writer, the site and corresponding newsletter makes it feel like you have a friend at your side who knows what the dark turmoil of trying to put words on the page is all about. Writing is a solitary act, but The Jessica Maybury makes it a little less lonely.
Writer and Artist Multimedia Collaboration
The site and small press Monologging.org produces an annual online literary magazine that includes the collaboration of artists and writers working together within a “borderless realm for artistic projects.” Unique in scope, Monologging.org provides the space for an international community of literature and art, creating innovative and groundbreaking work that culminates into the yearly issue of Monologging.