4-writers.com

4-Writers.com is an excellent site with lots to meander through at your leisure. They have a variety of sites that you can access from the home page, including a bookstore with excellent search facility, plus online writing classes that are free to members of their "Writer's Village University". Membership cost $59, and the free classes include all genres of writing, from poetry to novels. The site also publishes an e-zine, T-Zero Xpandizine which you can subscribe to for free. There are also guidelines for those who might wish to submit to this ezine but the site does not clarify whether this ... more

This is a delightful site, with quite a variety of benefits to its members. For a $59 annual fee (very reasonable, I think), you receive membership and all of the benefits that the site has to offer such as 200+ courses, workshops and regularly published e-zines...all FREE! The other thing that I thought was a wonderful way for writers to gain practical writing experience was the opportunity to participate in an interactive online story. This is a very creative approach to offering fellowship to writers, as well as giving them the opportunity to hone their literary skills. Overall, I would ... more