Other Links (No particular order.) Dallas Public Library Texas Book Festival This annual two-day event in support of reading and literacy features authors from Texas and across the country. Money raised from the Festival is distributed as grants to public libraries throughout the state. NEXT FESTIVAL: October 28-30, 2005• State Capitol, Austin, TX Funds for Writers Newsletter - Full of interesting and useful information. To subscribe, send a blank email to fundsforwriters-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. Ranked one of Writer's Digest's 101 Best Websites for Writers 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005. Texas Commission on the Arts A cultural arts network. Click here to enter "The Library." Dallas Reads - An adult and family literacy organization. Library of Congress - The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with nearly 128 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 29 million books and other printed materials, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 57 million manuscripts. The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. American Booksellers Association - Founded in 1900, the American Booksellers Association is a not-for-profit organization devoted to meeting the needs of its core members of independently owned bookstores. Literary Market Place - A worldwide resource for the book publishing industry. The Book Standard - The Book Standard launched in January 2005 as a one-stop online information center providing Nielsen BookScan-powered charts, book-market analysis, news, reviews, commentary, job boards, and extensive database resources."all things book." The Book Standard fills a gap in the book-publishing industry, which has always lacked a comprehensive, quality publication, online or in print, that's covered the market, reported on sales figures and other metrics, or provided the first word on rights and deals or on books themselves. The Book Standard offers the information, analysis, insight, and numbers that anyone connected to the book-publishing industry-publishers, agents, film/TV producers, authors, and anyone else-can use to perform their jobs and do their work smarter and better. The Book Standard launched in January 2005 Authorlink -- An Internet information service for editors, agents and writers. Authorlink was launched in March of 1997 to help editors and literary agents find good manuscripts. The American Society of Journalists and Authors The nation's leading organization of independent nonfiction writers. The Society includes more than 1,000 leading freelance writers of magazine articles, trade books and other orms of nonfiction writing who have met ASJA's exacting standards of professional achievement. The Academy of American Poets - A nonprofit organization (founded in 1934) with a mission to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. Dallas Area Literary Organizations Writer's Garret - The mission of The Writer's Garret is to foster the education and development of readers, writers, and audiences by putting them in touch with quality literature, each other, and the communities in which they live and write. The Writer's Garret is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) literary center whose activities are wholly supported by gifts, grants, memberships, and class fees. WordSpace - It is the mission of WordSpace to support and promote the use of imaginative language and its creators working in traditional and experimental forms. SouthWest Writers - This East Dallas group meets on the 1st Saturday of each month at 1:00 p.m. in the conference room at the Dallas Public Library's Lakewood Branch. Contact Kaye-Rose Miller (214-339-5230)or Sammy Thompson (972-681-3271) Writers League of Texas - Formerly the Austin Writers' League. Promotes the art of writing by supporting writers throughout the state in their artistic and professional goals. You'll find contact info for many other "local" groups. Historic Bookstores Shakespeare & Company - The original Shakespeare and Company was opened in 1921 by Sylvia Beach, daughter of a New England presbyterian minister, and was at 12 rue de l'Odeon, Paris, France. For twenty years it thrived, and it was from here that Europe first heard of the writings by new American talent, like Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Throughout the 1920s literati frequented her shop: George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Paul Valèry, André Gide,James Joyce... The Shakespeare and Company we know today opened on the Left Bank in 1951. Its owner was George Whitman, another east coast American bibliophile, and at first he called it Le Mistral. Then in 1964, having secured Sylvia Beach's agreement, George decided to resurrect her Shakespeare and Company name, in order to honour and continue the ethos and traditions of the former famous bookshop. Gotham Book Mart - New York City, N.Y. Frommer's Review: Paris may have had its Sylvia Beach, but New York was lucky enough to have Frances Steloff. She opened Gotham Book Mart in 1920, and quickly became a defender of the First Amendment rights of authors. She championed such once-banned works as Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, and numbered among her admirers Ezra Pound, Saul Bellow, and Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Frances has since passed on, but her aura lives. As always, the emphasis is on poetry, literature, and the arts. This is New York's undisputed literary landmark; look for the sign that says WISE MEN FISH HERE. City Lights - Co-founded by poet/painter Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights is a landmark independent bookstore and publisher that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics. San Francisco, California. The Tattered Cover - Visit the info desk for history. Home