Welcome to the homepage of the on-line versions of our publications.  Included here are PEN & INK WRITERS JOURNAL and PEN & INK POETS JOURNAL (covers writers, craft of writing, writers resources,  publishers & publishing) plus excerpts from some of our other lit zines-- MIXED BAG, POP-CULTURE (fringe/quirky/medley/retro), HORIZONS (multi-cultural), DAYS & NIGHTS of a SMALL PRESS PUBLISHER & poetry chapbooks.  Essays, articles,  reviews (books & zines) , interviews, commentary, letters column, poetry, fiction, artwork and photographs, plus lots of recommended links will be included.  This is an ongoing project so construction is never done.

                                                      


Submissions are welcome on a regular basis via e-mail or sent regular mail.  For guidelines contact:   zinester@zworg.com   or   zinester@buzzle.com   or   zinester@mochamail.com   To send submissions contact: zinesterhere@yahoo.com   or   zinester@jaydemail.com   Or, if you need to send your submissions via regular mail let us know and we will furnish you with our mailing address.  Please enclose a S.A.S.E. with all inquiries.
 We welcome publishers to send books, chapbooks, zines, journals, newsletters, and catalogs for review.

New additions are added periodically.  We also add new links as we find them.

Please note that these are OUR publications and we are not infringing on anyone's copyright. We were granted permission to publish the submissions.  All copyright of submissions reverts to the creators once published. Some of the graphics included are copyright free clipart or from website hosts who allow use of their work for anyone's website--a list of links to these clipart sites are available in our links section.





Articles:
Published in MIXED BAG #8 (lit zine)
"Breaking Into Small Press" by Sharida Rizzuto (available now)
Published in MIXED BAG #9
"How To Succeed As A Small Press Publisher" by Sharida Rizzuto (coming soon)
Published in POP CULTURE #1
"Coffee With A Side Of Greatness" (a "slice of life" piece) by Jimmy Toscano (available now)
"Schooled On The Movies" by Sharida Rizzuto (available now)
"My Movie Memorabilia" by Sharida Rizzuto (available now)
Published in HOLLYWOOD NOSTALGIA #2
"Silence of Hollywood" by Jimmy Skinner
Published in  REALM OF THE VAMPIRE #21
"Dennis Wheatley:  Occult Horror Was His Speciality" by Lucinda MacGregor (available now)

Reviews:
Published in MIXED BAG #8, PEN & INK WRITERS JOURNAL #1, THE SALEM JOURNAL #1, and REALM OF THE VAMPIRE #1, #3, #8, #21, & #22
by Sharida Rizzuto & Lucinda MacGregor (available now)
plus Thomas Schellenberger

Interviews:
NOTE: All of our text on this page came from another one of our files/websites and it altered our text in such a way that we can't correct it without completely doing the entire thing over.  That we plan to do.
Published in MIXED BAG #8 (available now)
Cindy Silverblattt, Webmistress for Mysterious Strands (website)
conducted by Sharida Rizzuto
(available now)--site listed in links list
Xander Mellish, Webmistress for Xander Mellish (e-zine)
conducted by Sharida Rizzuto
(available now)--listed in the links list
Willa, Webmistress for Willa's Journal (on-line)
conducted by Sharida Rizzuto
(available now)--listed in the links list
Published in NIGHTSHADE #1 and REALM OF THE VAMPIRE #21
Webmaster, Derek of Lord Ruthven (website)
conducted by Lucinda MacGregor
(available now)

Published in NIGHTSHADE #1
Carol Anne Davis, author of Shrouded
conducted by Sharida Rizzuto

(available now)
Published in REALM OF THE VAMPIRE #3
Poppy Z. Brite, author of
Lost Souls and more
conducted by Sharida Rizzuto

(available now)
Published in SEASCAPES #1
Cindy Vallar, author of Scottish Thistle
conducted by Lucinda MacGregor
(available now)
Published in
NIGHTSHADE #1
Kealan-Patrick Burke, author of
Ravenous Ghosts and much more
conducted by Jason Brannon
(available now)

Fiction:
Published in MIXED BAG #8 (lit zine)
"An American Legend" by B. Z. Niditch
"The Night Stalker" by John H. Lever
"What I Did For Soup" by Eugene C. Flinn
"Skirt Man" by  Dave Esinstark
"Biographical Biopsies--Homeless Haute Couture" by Diane Stoneberg
(available now)

Poetry:
PEN & INK POETS JOURNAL #1 & #2 (also published in MIXED BAG #8 & PEN & INK WRITERS JOURNAL #1):
by Robin Blackburn, Steve Dimeo, Ronald MacKinnon Thompson, John Grey, Carl A. Gottesman,Gene Fehler, Ingmar van Item-Hertmanowski, Corey Mesler, B. Z. Niditch, Rick Lupert, Elisha Porat, and Hilda Ducasse.
(available now)
REALM OF DARKNESS #1 & THE SALEM JOURNAL #1:
Leilah Wendell, Richard David Behrens, Linda Ostrander, Marie Buckner, John A. Youril, Gregory E. Harrison, George Chadderdon, Robin Blackburn
(available now)


NOTE:  More materials will be included soon.  We will be adding our Jewish Life publication to this site as well as more from our Hollywood Nostalgia.

Be sure to visit our Letters Column and our Contributor Bios section.


                                                                 

Recommended Links:


Zuzu's Petals Literary Resource Homepage
Zuzu's Petals Quarterly
http://www.zuzu.com/

John Laboritz's List of All Known Zines
http://www.meer.net/~johnl/e-zine-list/

Sharpwriter (writers zine)
http://www.sharpwriter.com/

Pif Magazine (writers)
http://www.pifmagazine.com/

Arts & Letters Daily
http://www.cybereditions.com/aldaily/

The Burry Man Writers Center
http://www.burryman.com/

American Literature
http://www.accd.edu/Sac/english/bailey/amerlit.htm

Monsoon Magazine (Indian literary zine)
http://www.monsoonmag.com/

The Caribbean Writer (literary zine)
http://www.uvi.edu/CaribbeanWriter/

Russ Filman's Caribbean Literature
http://www.freenet.hamilton.on.ca/~aa462/cariblet.html

New Zealand Writers Website
http://www.nzwriters.ca.nz/

Zoetropes (New Zealand literary zine)
http://www.arts.uwo.ca/~andrewf/zoetropes.htm

Australian Literature
http://ncc1701.apana.org.au/~larrikan/lit/lit.htm

Australian Literature Database
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ozlit/

British Literature
http://www.accd.edu/Sac/english/bailey/britlit.htm

Literature in Latin America
http://lanic.utexus.edu/la/region/literature/

Carla's Russian Literature Page
http://members.aol.com/gay4girl/index.htm

LitWeb
http://www.arcana.com/shannon/litweb.html

Factsheet Five Electric
http://www.factsheet5.com/

Web del Sol
http://www.webdelsol.com

Gila Queen's Guide to Markets
http://www.gilaqueen.com/

Spicy Green Iguana--The Speculative Fiction Magazine Resource Site
http://members.aol.com/mhatv/main.htm

The Professional Writers' Source
http://www.cloud9.net/~kvivian/

Heliocentric Network--Writers' Resources
http://www.wolfenet.com/~lbothell/

Del Rey Online Writers Workshop
http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/workshop/

International Directory of Little Magazines And Small Presses
http://www.dustbooks.com/

The BBR Directory--Small Press & Independent Publishing
http://www.bbr-online.com/directory

Scavenger's Newsletter
http://www.cza.com/scav/

Global Mail
http://www.mailart.homepage.com/

Fandom Directory
http://members.aol.com/fandata/

DarkEcho Horror Genre Newsletter
http://www.darkecho.com

Poetry Highway
http://PoetrySuperHighway.com

Writer Buddy--A Place To Meet Writers
http://www.writerbuddy.com

Writing Online
http://www.hmco.com/hmco/college/English/writingonline/WritingOnline.html

Storymania--Great place for new writers to place their submissions to be critiqued by readers and other writers
http://www.storymania.com/

The On-Line Journal of Contemporary Poetry
http://home.earthlink.net/~taunlund/

Le Bon Mot (For writers who want to sspice up their writing with some French)
http://members.home.net/

Journal and Essay Writing
http://www.poewar.com/links/essay.htm

Basic Guide to Essay Writing
http://members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/essay/

Joanne Reid's Writing Course
http://www.pangea.com/~romance/shortfiction/shortcourse.html

Guide to Grammar and Writing
http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pags/darling/original.htm

Online English Grammar
http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/index.sfm

Grammar
http://go.to/grammar

Ms. Smith's English Page
http://home.earthlink.net/~jesmith/

Brain Bait--English Grammar, etc.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/3995/

The Independent Reader
http://www.independentreader.com/

About.com--Includes many categories of subjects
http://about.com

Authors Speak
http://www.authorsspeak.com/

Book Web Home Page

http://www.sunmoon.com/

Small Press Distributors Books--One of the best small press distributors around
http://www.hmco.com/hmco/college/English/writingonline/WritingOnline.html


SPD Books--Independent book distributor
http://www.spdbooks.org


Sun & Moon Books--Interesting small press publisher 
http://www.bookweb.org/

On-line Books
http://alabanza.com/Kabocoff/Inter-Links/library/books.htm

Cyberinkpress
http://www.cyberlinkpress.com/bkinfo3.htm

SF, Fantasy, Horror, Noir Fiction -- Clocktower Fiction
http://www.clocktower.com/

The SF Site:  The Best in SF & Fantasy
http://sfsite.com

The Overlook Connection
http://www.overlookconnection.com/

Fanzines
http://www.fanzines.com/

Fan Fiction Net
http://www.fanfiction.net/master.htm

ZineZone
http://www.zinezone.com/users/

Guide to Fanzine Publishing
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/9015/zinetx.htm

The Market List:  A Resource for Writers of SF, Fantasy, and Horror
http://www.marketlist.com/

Zine-X Banner Exchange
http://www.zinex.com/

Mysterious Strands--Extensive Mystery Links
http://www.idsonline.com/userweb/cwilson/mystery.htm

The Reader's Corner--Mystery, Romance, Fantasy
http://www.autopen.com/

Gumshoe--Hard-boiled Detective
http://www.nsknet.or.jp/~jkimura/

Sherlock Holmes HomePage
http://watserv1.hwaterloo.ca/~credmond/sh.html

Dark Annie--Jack the Ripper e-zine
http://member.aol.com/darkannie/

Canadian Crime Writers
http://www.swiftly.com/cwc/cwchome.htm

Vampire Athenaeum--Vampire Book Reviews
http://www.vampireathenaeum.org/

Horror Net--All about horror writers & the genre
http://www.horrornet.com/

Xander Mellish (e-zine)
http://www.interport.net/~xmel

Olio (e-zine)
http://www.olio.org

Curiosity's Escape (e-zine)
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~unreal

The Road To Nowhere (a personal zine)
http://www.sealander.com/personal.html

Way South (a Southern zine)
http://www.waysouth.com

Cafe Eighties
http://www.cafe80s.com/

The Galactic Coffeehouse House
http://www.sevensoupcans.com/tgch/

Coffeehouse for Writers
http://www.coffeehouse4writers.com/

Biscuits and Gravy Quarterly
http://www.americanfolk.com/bgq/

Willa's Journal
http://www.willa.com

Full Moon Publications--On-line and print zines (gothic-vampire, horror, scifi/fantasy, occult/paranormal, mystery, literary, pop culture, multi-cultural, etc.)

The Haunted Castle
http://www.oddworldz.com/zines/
Castle of the Vampyres
http://zines.clickherefree.net   or   http://www.zines.clickherefree.net
Full Moon Journal
http://fullmoonjournal.tripod.com
The Witches Manor
http://fullmoonjournal.spiritualitea.net
Horizons Beyond
http://www.zines.swsites.net
Realm of the Vampire
http://www.darksites.com/souls/vampires/vampzine/  (This site will be relocated.)
The Haunted Journal
http://HauntedJournal.InterCosmos.com
Mummy Zines Cafe
http://www.horrorseek.com/home/horror/zinecafe/

Zine Cafe
http://zines.cafeprogressive.com

Midnight Zines Cafe
http://anzwers.org/free/zines/

French Quarter Zines Cafe
http://zines.gossimer.net/

Miami Palms Zines Cafe
http://zines.xoasis.com

Hollywood Nostalgia
http://members.fortunecity.com/moviezine


Free Clipart--
NOTE:  We recommend these clipart sites.  We are using some of their bars, backgrounds and other graphics.

A Touch of Magic
http://www.magicklass.com/freeart/index.html

Argotique Graphics
http://www.crosswinds.net/~argotique/grtitle.htm

Sybermel
http://members.tripod.com/~sybermel/

Library of Web Graphics and Gif  Icons
http://home.earthlink.net/~vexger/gif_lib.html

Bazar Free Stuff
http://www.algonet.se/~bazar/

Texture Land
http://www.meat.com/textures/

World's Largest One-Man Backgrounds Library
http://njet.net/heikki/backgrounds_index.shtml


Glorious Web Design
http://users.erols.com/gbond/graphics.htm


Wallpaper by Stormi
http://www.stormi.com/

Backgrounds by Brown Bag Graphics
http://members.aol.com/dogscratch/graphics/index.html


Action Gifs
http://www.geocities.com/%7Ebydezign/space.htm
http://www.graphicsbydezign.com/themesets.htm

ClipArt Resource
http://216.150.65.254/clipart.html


NOTE:  More links will be added soon!



                                                                                     



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