LitArts RI Community Resources
Please note: general community resources—from job boards to housing help—can be found below our organizational offerings. or click here.
 

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Event Recordings & Resources

Activism

• Restorative Narratives: Care, Power and Visibility (September 2023)

• Author as Activist: The Art of Now! (July 2022)
   

Freelance and Journal Submissions

• How to Submit: Publishing in Lit Mags and a Community Submit-a-thon (January 2023)

• Submission Bee (January 2022)

• Pitch. Submit. Repeat.: Getting Your Work Out in the World (June 2020)

• Freelance-A-Lot and the Editors’ Round Table (March 2019)
   

Funding and Finances

• Care in Community: Exploring Artist Residencies with ACA (October 2023)​​

• Taxes for Artists, Freelancers and Creative Businesses (March 2022)

• Grantwriting for Writers (March 2021)

• Writer Relief: Funds and Fellowships for RI Creatives (October 2020)

• Crowdfunding for Creatives: Patreon and Kickstarter (May 2019)

• Grants Day (February 2019)
   

Genre Support

• Queries, Proposals and Publishing for Writers of Genre (December 2024)

• NaNoWriMo Prep Talk: Mentally Prepping for NaNoWriMo (October 2023)

• Environmental Writers Round Table (April 2020)

• Children’s Book: Writer/Illustrator Collaboration (March 2020)
   

Podcasting

• Why Our Latinx Stories Matter (June 2021)

• Leveling Up: How to Grow and Monetize Your Podcast (July 2020)

• Audio Storytelling for Podcasters (September 2019)

• How to Get the Most from Your Podcast Guests: Interview Tips and Tricks (May 2019)
   

Promotion

• Book Launch Basics: Your Successful Author Event (April 2025)

• IRL to Virtual: Tips for Online Readings, Interviews and Book Launches (February 2021)

• Wikipedia for Writers (February 2020)

• Publicity & Press for Authors (July 2019)

• Can Everybody Hear Me? A Panel on Mic Etiquette (April 2019)

Publishing

• Queries, Proposals and Publishing for Writers of Genre (December 2024)

• Care in Publishing: Resilience in the Face of Rejection (December 2023)

• First Draft to Final Proofs: Navigating the In Between (December 2022)

• Pitch It! How to Talk About Your Book (December 2021)

• Diverse Paths to Publishing: A Map for Writers of Color (June 2021)

• Demystifying the Agent Process (May 2020)

• Before and After the Book Deal (January 2020)

• NaNoWriMo Finish Line: Author Panel (December 2019)

• Publish Yourself: A Panel for Self-Publishing on Kindle and Beyond (June 2019)

• NaNoWriMo Finish Line: Interview with Vanessa Lillie (December 2018)
   

Research

• Inside the Archives: The Art of Then (September 2022)
   

Support, Care and Resources

• Care in Publishing: Resilience in the Face of Rejection (December 2023)

• NaNoWriMo Prep Talk: Mentally Prepping for NaNoWriMo (October 2023)

• Care in Community: Exploring Artist Residencies with ACA (October 2023)

• Restorative Narratives: Care, Power and Visibility (September 2023)

• Writing During COVID: 5 RI Authors on Creative Practice and the Pandemic (Dec 2020)

• Health Insurance for Freelancers: Informative Workshop with HealthSource RI (Dec 2019)

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Publications

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• Solidarity Zine Anthology
   

Teaching Artist Resources

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• Safe Space Guide for LitArts RI Teaching Artists

 

​Writing Group Resources​

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• LitArts RI Writing Group Guidelines

• LitArts RI Writing Group Facilitator Guidelines

 

Community Resources for RI Creatives

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Local Grants & Funds for Creatives

• Interlace Grant Fund

• Queer + Trans Mutual Aid

• RI State Council on the Arts (RISCA)

• RI Council for the Humanities (RICH)

• MacColl Johnson Fellowship
   

Local Creative Resources, Residencies & Support

• Association of RI Authors

• Artist Community Alliance (ACA)

• Dirt Palace / Wedding Cake House

• Linden Place Writers’ Residency

• Mass MoCA Assests for Artists

• Queer.Archive.Work (QAW) / Binch Press

• Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA)
   

Venues to Share Creative Work

• Pawtucket Poetry

• The Providence Poetry Slam (ProvSlam)

• Outspoken PVD

• Stranger Stories

• SWAP Meet

• Tell Your Truth

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Bookstores Supporting Local Authors

• Books on the Square

• Heartleaf Books

• Inkfish Books

• Riffraff Bookstore + Bar

• Stillwater Books

• Symposium Books

• Twenty Stories
   

Local Arts & Culture Organizations

• Art Book Collective PVD

• Blackearth Collective + Lab

• Haus of Codec

• Haus of Glitter

• Lost Bag

• New Urban Arts

• Providence Public Library

• Community Libraries of Providence

• RI Black Storytellers

• RI Center for the Book

• RI Latino Arts

• Tomaquag Museum

• Write Rhode Island
   

Community Job Boards

• RISCA Arts Jobs List

Community Health & Wellness Resources

• Cereal for Dinner: Practical Resources for People Living with Depression

• Clinica Esperanza: Un Lugar Para Estar Saludable (Hope Clinic: A Place To Be Healthy)

• Health Source RI: Health Insurance Marketplace

• LUNA Community Care: Neuro-Affirming, Gender-Affirming Education

• Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island

• Open Door Health: Safe, Confidential and Inclusive Healthcare for All

• Rhode Island Free Clinic

• State of Rhode Island: Department of Health

• Thundermist Health Center

• BH Link
   

Housing Resources

• RI Department of Housing Landlord, Tenant Handbook

• RI Attorney General’s Office (guidance on income discrimination)

• RI Center for Justice

• Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights

• Coordinated Entry System (CES)

• Rhode Island Association of Community Action Agencies

• To Report Substandard Housing contact your city/town hall

• Providence Organization of Workers and Renters (POWR)

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Community Support Resources

• Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE): Tenant and Homeowner Association (THA)

• Options RI: LGBTQ+ News and Resources

• PVD Things: Library of Things Cooperative

• PVD Bike Collective: Rhode Island's Worker-Run Community Bicycle Workshop

• Project Weber / RENEW: Rhode Island's Center for Harm Reduction and Recovery Services

• Sista Fire RI

• Sojourner House RI