Bates Bookstore
56 Campus Avenue
Chase Hall
Lewiston, ME
(207) 786-6121

Blue Hill Books
26 Pleasant Street
Blue Hill , ME
(207) 374-5632

BookMarcs Bookstore
78 Harlow St.
Bangor, ME

Books N Things
430 Main Street
Norway, ME
(207) 739-6200

Calais Bookshop
405 Main Street
Calais, ME
(207) 454-1110

Devaney Doak & Garrett Booksellers
193 Broadway
Farmington, ME
(207) 778-3453

Gulf of Maine Books
134 Maine St
Brunswick, ME
(207) 729-5083

Left Bank Books
109 Church Street
Belfast, ME
(207) 338-9009

Longfellow Books
One Monument Way
Portland, ME 04101
(207) 772-4045

Royal River Books
355 Main Street
Yarmouth, ME
(207) 846-8006

Maine Arts Commission
The Maine Arts Commission maintains a directory of Maine artists and arts organizations and a statewide events calendar, as well as Arts in Education, Community Arts & Humanities, and individual fellowship and apprenticeship programs.

Maine Humanities Council
The Maine Humanities Council houses the Maine Center for the Book, which offers literacy programs for children and adults and professional development opportunities for K-12 teachers of literature.

Maine Lit Ring
The Maine Lit-Ring is the exclusive directory of reputable Maine literature online resources such as libraries, organizations, literary journals and personal pages for researchers and lovers of Maine literature.

Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance
The Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance hosts writers' workshops throughout the state, public readings, contests, and an annual writers' retreat. They publish Maine In Print, an anthology of Maine writers, as well as the Maine Literary Marketplace, and Eating Between the Lines: A Maine Writers' Cookbook.

The National Poetry Foundation
Founded in 1971 at the University of Maine, the National Poetry Foundation is now internationally known as the foremost publisher of scholarly work on Ezra Pound and the Pound tradition, as well as the acclaimed Man/Woman and Poet Series. They publish two scholarly journals, Paideuma, a journal devoted to Ezra Pound scholarship, and Sagetrieb, a journal devoted to poets in the Imagist/Objectivist tradition.

SpiritWords/Maine Poetries Collaborative
Spiritwords is a small, but statewide, multicultural network which embraces all poetic voices. They sponsor the Maine Poetry & Story Exchange and periodically honors writers from selected Maine cultural communities.

Stonecoast M.F.A. Program
Part of the University of Southern Maine, Stonecoast is a low-residency program that offers one-to-one tutorials in poetry. Semesters begin with ten-day residencies at the historic Stone House on the breathtakingly beautiful coast of Maine. Notable faculty members include, among many wonderful others, Kazim Ali, Annie Finch, Jeffrey Harrison, and Dennis Nurske.

University of Maine at Farmington
UMF's B.F.A. in Creative Writing is the only degree of its kind in Maine, and one of only three in the New England Regional Student Program and offers a strong combination of writing and literature courses in the context of liberal arts study.

The University of Maine
The Concentration in Creative Writing allows student to focus on the writing of fiction, poetry and/or creative non-fiction, in addition to receiving graduate-level training in literature and literary criticism. Graduate creative writing courses combine workshop situations with one-on-one instruction and enable students to work closely with practicing professionals. The New Writing Series offers a lively schedule of readings throughout the year. Students in the concentration may give public readings on campus and contribute editorial assistance to the graduate literary magazine, The Stolen Island Review.

The Accompanist
An independent literary magazine emphasizing the role of community in the making of art, and is a product of the dialogue between these various voices. First published by a transient/vanity press in the spring of 2000, the journal has grown to include and reach a local, national and international readership.

Aroostook Review
The Aroostook Review is the online literary journal of the English Program at the University of Maine at Fort Kent.

Alice James Books
Alice James Books is a nonprofit cooperative poetry press, founded in 1973. The cooperative selects manuscripts for publication through both regional and national competitions: the New England/New York Award, and the Beatrice Hawley Award.

Beloit Poetry Journal
For over fifty years of continuous publication, Beloit Poetry Journal has been distinguished for the extraordinary range of its poetry and for its discovery of strong new poets. In 2000 it commemorated its fiftieth anniversary with a celebratory anthology, A Fine Excess: Fifty Years of the Beloit Poetry Journal.

The Cafe Review
A quarterly print poetry review from Portland which publishes new strong voices in yet presents the works of well respected poets.

Moon Pie Press
Moon Pie Press is a small Maine press started in 2003 which publishes quality poetry books.

The New Guard
This independent literary review is operated by an all-Maine team and publishes work from multiple genres both from new & established authors. They offer two yearly contests including The Knightville Poetry Contest.

Off the Coast
Founded in 1996, OTC accepts submissions of poetry (any subject or style), graphics, and books for review.

Puckerbrush Review
A print-only literary journal edited and published since 1978. PR publishes quality poetry, short stories, literary essays and reviews.

Wolf Moon Press
Wolf Moon Press: A Maine Journal of Art and Opinion is a Web and print publication out of Winthrop that features essays and poetry as well as movie, art, book, and theater reviews.

Stolen Island Review
Stolen Island Review is the literary magazine edited by graduate students of the University of Maine English Department. SIR is in its 16th year of annual publication, providing a forum for University of Maine students and staff, community members, and creative artists nationwide.

Words and Images Journal
Words and Images is a literary journal published by the University of Southern Maine. What is now called Words and Images was once called Presumpscot Review. And The Review. And The Portland Review. The earliest found copy dates back to 1976.

WT Chronicles
The WT Chronicles is a Portland, Maine based publication celebrating working class writing and art, and attempts to explore the conditions of poverty that many Americans live under. We loosely center each edition around a topics such as work, drug and alcohol abuse, growing up poor, or love.

UMaine New Writing Series
Since it began in the fall of 1999, the UMaine New Writing Series has hosted more than a hundred poetry and fiction readings at the University of Maine’s flagship campus in Orono. Conceived as an instrument for investigating the whole spectrum of possibilities for contemporary work in poetry, prose, translation, and the new media, the NWS puts an emphasis on innovative, adventurous, and/or unduly neglected writing.

Maine Literary Festival
Begun in 2005, the Maine Literary Festival offers readings and workshops with award-winning writers from diverse cultures and ethnic experiences. The Festival is a scholarship project of the Midcoast Branch of the American Association of University Women. All proceeds from the Festival are used for the Midcoast AAUW's scholarship program for young women and girls who might otherwise not be able to attend college.