Over 170,000 book titles were published in the United States during 2007, with Fiction, Juvenile, Sociology, and Economics books comprising over a third of that total.* If you are looking to enter the publishing arena, the Literature Department has many resources to help you achieve your writing goals.

Whether you see yourself as a novelist, screenwriter, poet, journalist, or playwright, the Literature Department has materials that can help you locate an agent or publisher, hone your craft, or stir your creative juices.  Click here to see some highlights of the collection.

Directory of Poetry Publishers edited by Len Fulton

Getting Started as a Freelance Writer by Robert W. Bly

Guide to Literary Agents

How to Write a Children's Book and Get It Published by Barbara Seuling

Literary Market Place: LMP

Off the Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings, and Everything in Between edited by Carole Burns

Playwriting: The Structure of Action by Sam Smiley

Poet's Market

Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder

Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting by Syd Field

Writer's Market

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg

*Source: The 53rd edition of The Bowker Annual Library and Book Trade Almanac, 2008.