POETRY

• www.rhymezone.com
  • This is a Rhyming Dictionary with several options on the drop down list (synonyms, etc. very useful :).
• http://www.excitingwriting.info/ecw/evtp/schemes.html
  • This resource defines various rhyming schemes developed for a writing course by Paddy Gormley - it defines several different rhyming schemes
• http://www.youngpoets.ca — created by the League of Canadian Poets, this site is
  • specifically targeted to Canadian youth as well as educators, featuring an ezine, "spokes", a poetry contest for youth and a teacher resource section.

• http://www.poets.ca — created by the League of Canadian Poets, this site, Poetry Spoken
  • Here, is described as Canada's one-of-a-kind online bookstore and the best source for writing on all things poetic, from literary criticism to translations and anthologies. You can read reviews of writing and get the inside perspective on poetics through the author's comments and sample poem previews.

• http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/
  • an excellent general resource for Canadian poetry, compiled by the University of Toronto library. It includes biographies of many poets along with their writing philosophies amongst other resources.

• http://www.pencanada.ca/
  • the Canadian Centre of International PEN, the worldassociation of writers, founded in England in 1921, with 130 centres around the world.

• http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/
  • Writing Canada into the Millennium Project, University of Calgary.

• http://www.hiddenbookspress.com/Registry.htm — The Canadian Poet Registry: a comprehensive list of Canadian poets and their books.

• http://www.mirror.org/groups/cpa/
  • The Canadian Poetry Association. This site includes an extensive list of literary links.

• http://www.gigglepoetry.com
  • The #1 fun poetry site for kids on the web.

PROSE

• http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/workbooks
  • This is the website for the Young Novelist program for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo, held every November). There are workbooks that discuss the essential components of fiction at the Elementary, Junior, and Intermediate/Senior levels. While this is geared mostly to novel writing, a lot of the information in here relates to short fiction as well.
• http://www.uhv.edu/ac/grammar/main.asp
  • This link is useful for help with grammar issues. The Writing Tutors at the Academic Center at The University of Houston-Victoria (in the U.S. ) have developed several (printable) handouts on grammar points. These include handouts on subject-verb agreement, prepositions, correct  punctuation and many other topics.
    
• http://www.chompchomp.com/exercises.htm
  • This site has a number of different exercises to help students learn and practice their grammar, either in handout form or as an online quiz. There are quizzes on commas, sentence fragments, verbs, pronouns, subject/verb agreement, and word choice.
• https://owl.english.purdue.edu/
  • This site, The Purdue Online Writing Lab - is a fantastic general resource for writers on everything from grammar to coming up with interesting ideas.

MOTIVATION/HARNESSING CREATIVITY

• http://www.poetryexpress.org/15-poems/15-poems-you-can-write-now.html
  • This page (within the Poetry Express forum) offers 15 different ideas to get you started on your own poem
• http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/
  • With story ideas from the "Dare Machine", to advice on how to work with the finished product you've written, this site can be a really useful tool for motivating and coming up with creative new ideas.
    

FEEDBACK

• http://writingfiction.suite101.com/article.cfm/creative_writing_giving_constructive_criticism
  • This article offers one writer's opinion on how to give constructive criticism
• http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/explore/publications/casestudies/technology/blogs_feedback.php
  • This article uses a case study to explore how incorporating blogging can support the feedback process in creative writing classes