Writer's Resources

Learn more about Ric through his blog, plus find recommended resources for writers, including local Chicago resources.

Favorite Websites

• Find a Chicago Writer at IWOC
  This is the go-to site if you need to find any kind of writer-for-hire in Chicago, Illinois. From freelance journalists to ghost writers to movie screenplay writers - there is a very wide range of writing specialties represented.

• Writers Boot Camp
  Writers Boot Camp is an intensive screenwriting course with resources in Los Angeles.

• Poet’s and Writers
  Pages and pages of informative links, contacts and information for all writers.

• Jotham Burrelo
  Jotham Burrelo, an instructor at Columbia College, has got some great informative DVD’s that explain the nuts and bolts of getting yourself published.

• Columbia College
  Columbia College in Chicago has one of the nation’s best fiction and film schools.

• A Freelance Worker
  Expert tips and advice on working freelance.

• The Man with the Golden Arm
  Nelson Algren

• The Cider House Rules
  John Irving

• Greatest Game
  Billy Phelan

• Blood Meridian
  Cormac McCarthy

• The Eighth Day
  Thornton Wilder

• William Kennedy, Billy Bathgate
  E.L. Doctrow

• In The Lake of the Woods
  Tim O’Brien

• The Third Man
  Graham Green

• To Have and Have Not
  by Hemingway

Barbara’s Books
One of the great Chicago independents, they’ve lost some stores along the way, but they’ve adapted. Keep them on the map.

Unabridged Books
Don’t let the gay and lesbian theme scare you, this is a great bookstore, period. And the staff notes really help.

Kate the Great’s Book Emporium
A Columbia College Chicago Alum who’s fighting the good fight, give her a hand.

Quimby’s
More of a ‘zine and alternative press shop, but they fill an important niche.

• Jotham Burrelo
  Jotham Burrelo, an instructor at Columbia College, has got some great informative DVD’s that explain the nuts and bolts of getting yourself published.

• Poet’s and Writers
  Pages and pages of informative links, contacts and information for all writers.

• Writers Boot Camp
  Writers Boot Camp is an intensive screenwriting course with resources in Los Angeles.

• Columbia College
  Columbia College, based in Chicago, has one of the nation’s best fiction and film schools.

— Ric Hess, Jan 30, 06:03 PM

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