Fiction Web Sites

Fiction

• Elements of Fiction
• Meta-links sites
• Oral Storytelling
• Audio Performance
• Hypertext Fiction
• Fiction Magazines
• Writers' Sites
• Story Writing Software
• Sites Devoted to One Author or Work

Fiction

Elements of Fiction

• The Annenberg/CPB Project What makes a Good Short Story?
  • http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature

• Narrative Analysis: Some Concepts and Terms
  • http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~gbooth/110yhandout.html

   

Meta-link sites

• Voice of the Shuttle: Fiction Studies
  • http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/english2.html#fiction
• Bookbug on the Web
  • http://www.geocities.com/~bookbug/home.html
  • News, Reviews and Information for Romance Readers
  • The site also contains material of more general interest; note the "rings"

   

Oral Storytelling

• The Storytelling Web Ring
  • http://www.tiac.net/users/papajoe/ring.htm

Audio Performance

• Selected Shorts on NPR
  • A Celebration of the Short Story on National Public Radio
  • http://www.symphonyspace.org/radio.html#carriagelist
• NPR Online
• http://www.npr.org/
• Jewish Short Stories
  • http://www.kcrw.org/b/jss.html
  • This wonderful site has many, many Jewish short stories in their entirety read by famous actors and delivered over streaming Real Audio
• Barnes and Noble audio fiction selections

Hypertext Fiction

• Michael Shumate's Hyperizons: Hypertext Fiction
  • http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/hyperfic.html
• VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE: TECHNOLOGY OF WRITING PAGE
  • http://www.uni-ulm.de/uni/intgruppen/memosys/usb-tech.htm
• Eastgate
  • http://www.eastgate.com/
• HYPERTEXT AND HYPERMEDIA: A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Compiled by Scott Stebelman
  • http://www.gwu.edu/~gelman/train/hyperbib.htm
• Hypertext Sites and Essays
  • http://www.marist.edu/humanities/english/hsite.html
  • From the Department of English at Marist College
  • Excellent annotations on the sites listed.
• Janet Holloway's Site Guide for Hamlet on the Holodeck: the Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
  • http://web.mit.edu/jhmurray/www/HOH.html
• The Center for Digital Storytelling
  • http://www.storycenter.org/

Fiction Magazines online

• Intertext: the Online Fiction Magazine
  • http://www.intertext.com/
• Village Voice Literary Supplement
  • http://www.villagevoice.com/vls/
• The Atlantic Unbound
  • http://www.theatlantic.com/

Fiction Writers' Sites

• Fiction Writer's Connection
  • http://www.fictionwriters.com/
• Links for Writers
  • http://www.fictionwriters.com/fwc5lnks/
• Lars Eighner's Novel Writing Tutorial
  • http://www.io.com/~eighner/tnovel.html
  • Interesting for his treatment of various "elements" of fiction
  • Not definitive; contrast with Dramatica

Story Writing Software

• Dramatica Software
  • http://www.dramatica.com/dramatica/Index.html
• Story Development Software Creative Aids or Mechanized Creation?
  • By Jeffrey Sullivan
  • http://www.wga.org/journal/1995/0195/sftware.htm

   

Sites Devoted to One Author or Work--Fiction

• The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
  • http://www.eapoe.org/index.htm
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/hawthorne.html
• The Anton Chekhov Page
  • http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/ac/yr/Anton_Chekhov.html
• Celestial Timepiece: A Joyce Carol Oates Home Page
  • http://storm.usfca.edu/~southerr/jco.html
• The Garden of Forking Paths
  • http://rpg.net/quail/libyrinth/borges/
• Wired for Books Discussion Forums
  • on Raymond Caver, Zora Neale Hurston, Leo Tolstoy and Toni Morrison
  • http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/recon.htm
  • See "more resources" for further links for each author

   

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