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To win contests or gain publication, it is necessary to
understand the current state of the genre.  Three
editors of notable publications offer their choices for offer

RECOMMENDED READING:

Close Range:  Wyoming Stories
by E. Annie Proulx

Perfect Recall  
by Ann Beattie

Rope Burns:  Stories from the Corner
by F.X. Toole

                                                      The Angel On The Roof
                                                                                         by Russell Banks

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
by Nathan Englander

Who's Irish?
by Gish Jen

The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing
by Melissa Bank

Use Me
by Elissa Schappell

Birds of America
by Lorrie Moore

Girl With Curious Hair
by David Foster Wallace

Faithless:  Tales of Transgression
by Joyce Carol Oates

The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
by Aimee Bender

In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd

by Ana Menendez

•    Death in Venice ...Thomas Mann
•    The Kiss ................Anton Chekov
•    Snows of Kilimanjaro...Hemingway
•    Babylon Revisited....F. Scott Fitzgerald
•    That Evening Sun.....William Faulkner
•    A Perfect Day For Banana Fish....J. D. Salinger
•    Big Blonde.....Dorothy Parker
•    Paul's Case....Willa Cather
•    The Rocking Horse Winner....D.H. Lawrence

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• The Writer's and Photographer's Guide to Global Markets
            by  Michael Sedge
  Any freelance writer who dreams of selling an article a dozen times to far-flung places all over the planet needs this intelligent reference book. http://www.absolutewrite.com/novels/global_markets.htm
  

• THE WRITER'S GUIDE TO QUERIES, PITCHES AND PROPOSALS, by Moira Allen, puts all the "pitch" information you need in one handy reference:
  http://www.writing-world.com/books/moira.html

• THE WORLD'S
  BIGGEST BOOK OF WRITING CONTESTS - http://www.ult-media.com
   

• Get Organized, Get Published!: 225 Ways to Make Time for
  Success by Don Aslett and Carol Cartaino,
  http://www.absolutewrite.com/novels/get_organized.htm
   

• Freelance Writing for Magazines and Newspapers by Marcia
  Yudkin
  http://www.absolutewrite.com/novels/freelance_writing.htm
   

• William Fox, Sol M. Wurtzel and the Early Fox Film
  Corporation, Edited by Lillian Wurtzel Semenov and Carla
  Winter, reviewed by Jenna Glatzer.
  A nonfiction work that reads like hilarious fiction.
  http://www.absolutewrite.com/novels/fox.htm
  
   

• The Perfect Pitch by Ken Rotcop, reviewed by Jamie Nash
  (screenwriting) How to pitch your screenplay.
  http://www.absolutewrite.com/novels/perfect_pitch.htm
  
   

• Freedom To Freelance by Rusty Fischer, How to become a
  freelance writer.
  http://www.absolutewrite.com/novels/freedom_to_freelance.htm
  
  

•  THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO WRITING POETRY  by Nikki Moustaki 
   

•  GUIDE TO LITERARY AGENTS 2001 edited by Donya
        Dickerson (Writer's Digest Books)
  

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•  Reference...Prentice Hall
• The Guide to Writers' Conferences...Shaw
• Stein on Writing...Sol Stein
• How to Grow a Novel...Sol Stein
• The Elements of Style...Strunk & White
• The Writer's Journey...Christopher Vogler
• The Courage to Write....Ralph Keyes
• The Quotable Writer....William A. Gordon
• Successful Syndication....Michael Sedge
• Writing Freelance....Christine Adamec
• Here's My Card....Bob Popyk
• Poor Richard's Web Site...Peter Kent
• You Can Write A Column...Monica McCabe Cardoza
• The Writer's Idea Book...Jack Heffron
• Home-Based Businesses For Dummies...Paul Edwards
• The Chicago Manual of Style, University of Chicago Press
• Words Into Type, 3rd edition; Marjorie E. Skillin
• The Writer's Art, James Kilpatrick
• A Grammar of Present-Day English; R.W. Pence
• A Basic Guide to Writing, Selling, and Promoting Children's Books  by Betsy B. Lee
• The Children's Writer's Reference by Eric Suben, Berthe Amoss
• Children's Writer's Word Book by Alijandra Mogilner

• The Business of Writing for Children:
  by Aaron Shepard
   

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