The following are helpful links for writers in Austin and beyond.

Here you’ll find educational organizations and writers’ conferences, links for self-publishing and traditional publishing, craft books that we at WBN swear by, companies to help you promote your published books, (pause, deep breath), literary magazines to send your work to, and local writing groups and book clubs on the lookout for new members.

Professional Development: Professional Writers of Austin (PWA), the official writers association of WriteByNight.

Education: Writers’ League of Texas, Writer’s Digest, Badgerdog Literary Publishing, Austin Bat Cave, Writing on the Air, DFW Writers’ Conference, Houston Indie Books Festival, AWP Annual Conference, Texas Book Festival, Voices in Space, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers

Publication: LuLu, CreateSpace, Duotrope’s Digest, Greenleaf Book Group, BookPros, Cinco Puntos, Dalton Publishing, Javelina Books, Octane Press, Wings Press, Wisdom House

Books: Bird by Bird, On Writing Well, The Elements of Style, Writers Market, The Artist’s Way, On Writing, The Half-Known World 

Platform: Shelton Interactive, Cave Henricks Communications, PR By the Book, Phenix & Phenix, Literary Publicists

Submissions: Chamber Four, Texas Observer, Fringe Magazine, American Short Fiction, Bat City Review, Gulf Coast, Anomalous Press, NANO Fiction, Black Heart Magazine

Writers Groups: Austin Fictionists, Austin Books & Chatter, The Austin Writers Meetup Group, Austin Contemporary Fiction Book Club, Texas Hill Country Writers and Nature Walkers

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