Biography Find
A good starting point for biographers and non-fiction writers generally, this site allows you to search or browse 20,000 paragraph-length biographies of notable personalities from antiquity to the present. Its details are drawn from the Cambridge Encyclopaedia Database and the Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography. 

Brevity
A journal of concise literary non fiction is what it says, and that's what it is. Intimate detail-rich essays weighing in at fewer that 750 words. And if that's too long, try your hand at the Creative NonQuiction contest  -  non-fiction of 250 words or fewer. 

Creative Journaling
The creative journal method, developed by art therapist and workshop leader Dr Lucia Capacchione, draws on right-brain left-brain research in the field of healing and creativity - particularly writing and drawing with the non-dominant hand. As well as being used therapeutically in counselling and support groups for people with AIDS or cancer, it's also used for developing creativity in writing and art. Exercises are online at this site. They're aimed at helping you explore and expand your definition of creativity as well as tap its hidden potential via creative journal keeping. The emphasis, whether in getting to grips with dreams or overcoming writing blocks, is on affirmative philosophies that allow you to build inner strength and self-esteem for taking on new challenges. 

Das GenerationenProjekt: Ein halbes Jahrhundert in Hypertext
The text of this site is in German, no English version, so if your German is rusty, here's an opportunity to polish it up. A rough translation of the title is: The Generation Project: A half-century in hypertext. Jan Ulrich Hasecke has created a simple, but moving, hypertext time-line of people's eye-witness accounts of historical events in Europe from 1950 to the present and on to the close of the millennium. There are childhood memories from a boy playing in the parks of Warsaw and of the death of Stalin in 1953, terrorism in Germany in the 1970s, and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. More personal experiences are sought as the century draws to an end. 

Editor and Publisher
For  publishing news about US newspapers, this site is worth a visit. With international links as well as national ones it provides a comprehensive entry point to resources about print and broadcast news. 

Find A Grave
Sounds morbid? Not a bit of it. It is an unusual take on the needs of non-fiction writers, biographers, journalists and academics to track down information on those no longer living. It features a directory of the locations of the graves of thousands of famous dead people with photographs of many of the graves. Visitors can browse by name, location, and the deceased's claim to fame. The site also includes links to external sites and bibliographies. 

Heart Of Albion
This UK small press publisher started out in 1990 printing booklets on Leicestershire and Rutland local history. Mostly it has dealt in print, but latterly has started to do some disk-based and online publications. Paper is not dead here, but future projects will mostly involve electronic publishing on disk, CD-ROM or via WWW. Some are already on the Web site. Many more small press non-fiction publishers will be treading this path before too long. 

A Journalist's Guide To The Internet
Christopher Callahan is an associate dean of journalism at the University of Maryland at College Park. This excellent site compliments his book of the same name and ought to be bookmarked by anybody with any interests in using the Internet as a tool for journalism. The emphasis is on the United States and most of the links are specific - federal and state government, the FBI etc. - but the principles he discusses are applicable to anyone, anywhere. He covers inter alia the use of Newsgroups, listservs, online newspaper archives and journalism links in a brisk, business-like manner. 

Lives, The Biography Resource
A vital site for non-fiction writers who need to do some biographical research. It has an extensive, annotated directory of links to sites that focus on the lives of individuals or groups of people. Also collections of links to other biographical resources, including primary biographical source material such as images, diaries, memoirs, correspondence, interviews, oral histories, etc. 

NewsLink Network
Of interest to all North American working freelance journalists, this news service based in Calgary, Canada uses a database of stories contributed by journalists that provides a wide variety of story leads and contacts. Writers can not only pick up pointers, ideas and potential interview candidates, they can also provide leads to the database themselves and earn a commission as well. 

Online Journalism Review
A practical and comprehensive non-fiction resource from the Annenberg School for Communication that mixes hard news with commentary and features on writing journalism about and on the Web. Whether it's the control AOL has over news content or the growth in non-English languages on the Web to online training programmes on the Net, these are the issues that journalists today need to be aware of. Content is updated weekly. 

Writers International for Nature and the Environment
WINE is a community-based site of people exploring the planet and sharing what they find with others through their writing about nature and the environment. Targeted resources and market guidelines are part and parcel of the site, so too is a newsletter. Members can also take part in a free critique workshop. For newcomers to the form, there's a tutorial to work through that guides you through the early stages of keeping a journal and developing your powers of observation and writing voice.