Worthy Websites

Will Steacy

Will Steacy (b. 1980) is an American photographer and writer. He comes from five generations of newspaper men and worked as a Union Laborer before becoming a photographer. His photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions. His critically acclaimed books Photographs Not Taken and Down These Mean Streets were published in 2012, and his latest book project Deadline was published in 2015. He is a recipient of The Aperture Foundation Green Cart Commission and Tierney Fellowship and nominated for the 2014 Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award and 2015 Prix Pictet Prize. Visit his website.

Creative Fiction

Creative Nonfiction is the voice of the genre. Every issue is packed with new, long-form essays that blend style with substance; writing that pushes the traditional boundaries of the genre; notes on craft; micro-essays; conversations with writers and editors; insights and commentary from CNF editor Lee Gutkind; and more. Simply put, CNF demonstrates the depth and versatility of the genre it has helped define for more than 20 years. Visit website.

The Village Voice

Founded by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, and Norman Mailer in 1955, the Village Voice introduced free-form, high-spirited, and passionate journalism into the public discourse. As the nation’s first alternative newsweekly, the Voice today carries on the same tradition of no-holds-barred reporting and criticism it embraced when it began publishing 60 years ago. Visit website.

Walt Whitman Archive

The Walt Whitman Archive endeavors to make Whitman’s vast work freely and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers. Whitman, America’s most influential poet and a writer of global renown, is the most challenging of all American authors in terms of the textual difficulties his work presents. Visit archive.

Obliterated Families

During the 2014 Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, 142 Palestinian families lost three or more members. Some of the families were wiped out entirely.

The #ObliteratedFamilies project tells the stories of some of these families, their loved ones who were killed and those left behind.

You can now access nine chapters. The tenth and last chapter, about the al-Majdalawi family, currently contains only a video, the full story will be made available soon.

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Lit Hub

Literary Hub is an organizing principle in the service of literary culture, a single, trusted, daily source for all the news, ideas and richness of contemporary literary life. Each day—alongside original content and exclusive excerpts—Literary Hub is proud to showcase an editorial feature from one of its many partners from across the literary spectrum: publishers big and small, journals, bookstores, and non-profits. Visit website.

The Studs Terkel Radio Archive

This Archive will feature interviews from Studs’ hour-long daily radio show which ran from 1952 to 1997 on WFMT in Chicago, during which he conducted over 5,000 interviews. The subjects of his interviews span almost 5 decades of prominent figures such as musicians; novelists; scientists; historians; visual artists; actors; political theorists and activists; poets; dancers; film-makers; sociologists and anthropologists; architects and urban planners; civil rights leaders; philosophers; folklorists and, of course, many fascinating, non-famous working people. Visit website.

Vivian Maier

Vivian Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer born in The Bronx, New York. Although she was born in the U.S., she spent much of her youth in France. She returned to the U.S. in 1951 and worked as a nanny and care-giver for the rest of her life. Maier took photographs in her spare time over the years 1949-2000, which amounted to over 100,000 negatives from mostly New York and Chicago. She also traveled much of the world on various occasions, depicting the reality of how the world lived in the margins of society.

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Brain Pickings

Brain Pickings is the brain child of Maria Popova, an interestingness hunter-gatherer and curious mind at large, who has also written for Wired UK, The New York Times, Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab, and The Atlantic, among others, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow.

In this post, Maria brings together 8 books which she rates as the year’s best on writing and creativity, quoting masters like Kurt Vonnegut, Neil Gaiman and Isabel Allende. With this post’s trove of inspiration, you should be set for 2014.

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The Big Roundtable

“For a story to succeed it doesn’t have to be loved by everyone; it just has to be loved by enough.”

In this post, The Big Roundtable reviews readers’ response to some of the stories published, and ultimately reaches an analysis of what makes a successful story.

The Big Roundtable is a digital publishing platform that aims to connect passionate nonfiction writers with readers who will support their work. This journalism resource engages in experimental methods of gathering, selecting, editing, and distributing ambitious narrative stories, and, eventually, researching the reading and sharing behavior around those stories. And by convening forums—online and in person—where writers can learn and connect for mutual support.

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Brownbook.tv

Brownbook is a bimonthly magazine that acts as an urban guide to the Middle East and North Africa. The magazine has endured a decade within its field, researching hundreds of cities in the region and Arab diasporas around the world. Over the ten years of publishing, the magazine in its own pace has gone through radical editorial and design changes, but maintained its stand first as an observer of the region’s urban evolution. The magazine focuses on three main genres; Interviews, Architecture & Cities.

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Electronic Lit

GREAT AUTHORS INSPIRE US. But what about the stories that inspire them? Recommended Reading, a magazine by Electric Literature, publishes one story a week, for free. We feature original fiction curated by Electric Literature, as wells as personal recommendations from top writers and editors. – See more at: http://recommendedreading.tumblr.com/about#sthash.n0I3Ohc4.dpuf

GREAT AUTHORS INSPIRE US. But what about the stories that inspire them? Recommended Reading, a magazine by Electric Literature, publishes one story a week, for free. We feature original fiction curated by Electric Literature, as wells as personal recommendations from top writers and editors.

In this age of distraction, we’re uncovering writing that’s worth slowing down and spending some time with. And in doing so, we’re giving great writers, literary magazines, and independent presses the recognition (and readership) they deserve.

– See more at: http://recommendedreading.tumblr.com/about#sthash.n0I3Ohc4.dpuf

GREAT AUTHORS INSPIRE US. But what about the stories that inspire them?

Recommended Reading, a magazine by Electric Literature, publishes one story a week, for free. We feature original fiction curated by Electric Literature, as wells as personal recommendations from top writers and editors.

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Chris Blattman

“Assistant Professor of Political Science & International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, using field work and statistics to study poverty, political participation, the causes and consequences of violence, and policy in developing countries. The questions I’m most passionate about: Why are some societies so poor, violent and unequal? What got the richer, peaceful and equal countries to where they are today? And what to do about it today? I’m presently an adviser to the International Rescue Committee and the World Bank, and in recent years have been an adviser to the UN Peacebuilding Fund, Uganda’s Office of the Prime Minister, and Liberia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.”

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Salwa Publishers

“Salwa Publishers” is an independent publishing house established in 1996 in Jordan.

It specializes in Arabic picture books for children, for ages ranging from newborns to 13 years old. Salwa Publishers has recently expanded into the digital electronic media by producing applications, ebooks, interactive CDs, DVDs, and audio books.

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The Believer Magazine

The Believer is a monthly magazine where length is no object.
There are book reviews that are not necessarily timely and that are very often very long.
There are interviews that are also very long. We will focus on writers and books we like.
We will give people and books the benefit of the doubt. The working title of this magazine was The Optimist.

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World Affairs

World Affairs Institute (WAI) is a 501(C)3 nonprofit organization established in 2010 and based in Washington, DC. WAI’s mission is to promote democratic governance as well as public education, awareness, and dialogue on international affairs and security issues through publications and non-partisan public education projects. Visit website.

Data-driven journalism

This website is dedicated to providing anyone interested in getting started with data driven journalism with a collection of learning resources, including relevant events, tools, tutorials, interviews and case studies. The data journalism community and mailing list are dedicated to strengthening the community of journalists, designers, data providers and others, and encouraging collaboration and exchange of expertise

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The Open Society Foundation

The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. To achieve this mission, the Foundations seek to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights. On a local level, the Open Society Foundations implement a range of initiatives to advance justice, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, we build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as corruption and freedom of information. The Foundations place a high priority on protecting and improving the lives of people in marginalized communities.

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Kharabeesh

Creative and original animation published over the internet.

Just in case you were wondering, Kharabeesh is Arabic for scribbles!

Kharabeesh aims to build a new entertainment industry on the net by placing Arabic stories and culture on the WEB map. Kharabeesh shows are short, smart and snappy. We constantly seek experimentation, originality and edginess in what we do and in how we tell our stories.

Kharabeesh team is made up of young passionate scribller-artists and storytellers, who are hungry to try and experiment new styles and ideas. We have no fear of failure and we keep trying until we succeed in creating the next big thing.

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