Our weekly roundup of links we hope you’ll find interesting and useful.

• Looking for a home for your stories, articles or essays? Find magazine market information here.
• Editorial Ass gives great advice on cutting those precious darlings unnecessary words from your manuscript.
• Agent Jill Corcoran has a terrific roundup of links with advice to help you write great queries…
• …and you’ll find many examples of successful queries at Guide to Literary Agents.
• Wise words from best-selling novelist Aprilynne Pike: know your goals and make sure your first choices align with them…
• … and from literary giant John Irving on writing, career and why you shouldn’t shoot yourself (watch the video or read the transcript).
• Poets, spoken word artists and poetry lovers, head on over to PoetrySpeaks to read the masters, find new poems, watch/hear performances and join the community.
• In the mood to chat? HighSpot offers this guide to literary chat on Twitter — all the information you need to join the conversation with editors, writers, agents, readers and publishing professionals.
• But sometimes we have to stop tweeting and start writing! That’s why you shouldn’t miss Jane Friedman’s thorough and highly useful weekly lists of Best Tweets for Writers.

If you have a link of interest to writers that you’d like to see in a roundup, please email us or leave a comment.

Have a great weekend. Write something wonderful!

Posted by: Kelley