| www.journalism.co.uk | |
| www.internet-resources.com | |
| www.poetrylibrary.org.uk | Founded by the Arts Council in 1953 as an inspired effort to support and promote modern British poetry, the Library had a variety of homes before moving in 1988 to our current location on level 5 of the Royal Festival Hall. Now containing about 80,000 volumes, we aim to stock all poetry published in the U.K. since about 1912, as well as a wide selection of international work. All material is in English, but as we include translations into English, the poetry of virtually every country in the world is represented. Two copies are acquired, one for reference purposes which never leaves the library, and one for the loan collection for members to borrow. There is poetry for children and teachers, poetry on tape, record and video, a huge collection of literary magazines, a unique press cuttings section, an archive of photographs of poets, and collections of poetry posters and poem cards. It is a research and lending library and is the national collection for 20th and 21st century British poetry. |
| www.newwritingnorth.com | New Writing North **** New Writing North exists to create an environment for new writing in all genres to flourish. It seeks to encourage emerging talent through practical help and advice and to support the development, publication and production of new work, while acting as an information agency for writers and promoters. |
| www.wordhoard.co.uk | The Word Hoard **** The Word Hoard is a co-operative of writers, visual artists, performers and musicians running programmes of creative projects and development at grass-roots level as well as the Huddersfield Poetry Festival. Word Hoard is behind Spout publications promoting writers involved in its projects and a magazine of international fiction and experimental writing. |
| www.booktrust.org.uk | Book Trust Grants Page *** The Book Trust lists a dozen organisations offering financial support for writers, including writers-in-residence positions, hardship awards from the Authors Society and a few prizes. |
| Portals | |
| www.ralan.com | Ralan Conley's Webstravaganza ***** Ralan.com site is a magnificent resource from a prolific writer sharing years of research and dispensing sound advice on a variety of topics. Scrupulously catalogued linking will send you just about anywhere you need to go. Writers' markets are detailed in depth, particularly the professional, paying and fun SF scenes with a table showing the response times of various publishers to work submitted to them. Witty and erudite, it's also a stock lesson in site-design. |
| www.artslynx.org | Artslynx International Writing Resources **** Artslynx is a series of link stations to various areas of the arts. The International Writing Resources page has a North American slant and provides a selection of links divided into organisations, journals, writing tools and resources, poetry resources and miscellaneous. There is more of interest to writers in the Theatre Resources section of the parent site. |
| www.bbr-online.com | **** BBR Writers Resources page has a selection of useful links to like-minded small press arenas online. The BBR publishes the monthly news-sheet BBR Directory for those with interests in the small press, and are keen to hear of new web-sites for their listings. |
| Research | |
| blpc.bl.uk | British Library Public Collection ***** The British Library Public Catalogue (BLPC) is a free Internet service interface to the main British Library catalogues. A help page outlines the content of various collections of material with search and consultation guidelines, plus details on conditions of use and how to request copies and borrow items. There is an order facility for loans and photocopies of material held by the British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC), which can deliver photocopies around the world by mail, fax or Ariel. |
| www.xrefer | Xrefer ***** Xrefer is a reference book search-engine offering free access to over 50 reference titles containing more than 500,000 entries. It has encyclopaedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, all cross-referenced to link from one topic in one source to related topics in a range of books. Plus you can download the facility into your browser enabling you to highlight text on any web page, hit your new Xrefer-it button and have it perform a search without having to load the Xrefer site. |
| Societies | |
| www.poetrysoc.com | The Poetry Society **** The Poetry Society is a membership organisation open to all since 1909. The Society produces a range of publications, administers the UK's longest-running poetry competition and runs a lottery-funded showcase centre in London's Covent Garden, as well as helping develop projects with schools and libraries. The web-site has an archive of project reports, a resource page for librarians, plus trailers for upcoming slim volumes and a comprehensive links page. |
| www.manchester-writers.freeserve.co.uk | South Manchester Writers' Workshop *** South Manchester Writers' Workshop is a creative writing group based in Didsbury. Meeting weekly for over 20 years the group has recently launched Multi-Storey - a magazine of new writing for North-West England and beyond. A links page lists numerous similar societies. |
| Advisory bodies | |
| www.writers.org.uk | Authors' Society **** The Authors' Society is a non-profit making organisation founded in 1884 to protect the rights and further the interests of authors. Membership services including contract vetting. The Society is represented on the British Copyright Council, the National Book Committee and a number of international bodies. Recognised by the BBC for negotiating rates for radio drama and the broadcast of published material, the Authors Society also inspects publishers' royalty accounts. The first president was Lord Tennyson, current membership numbers 6,700 and past members include Thomas Hardy G.B. Shaw and H.G. Wells. |
| Literary Agents | |
| www.agentsassoc.co.uk | The Association of Authors Agents **** The web-site of the representative body for literary agents in the UK is of use to writers through the contacts page to AAA members and the detail of the Code of Practice which binds them. The AAA operates at one remove from authors keeping agents informed of developments in the realm of publishing and thus indirectly serving writers too. |
| Press and media | |
| www.chapman-pub.co.uk | Chapman **** Edinburgh-based Chapman magazine champions Scottish culture with particular emphasis on poetry, fiction, criticism, review and debate. Chapman publishes new work by known Scottish writers and promotes new writers and new ideas. It accepts unsolicited submissions of poetry, short fiction and critical essays but only by post. Scots and Gaelic language pieces are especially welcome. |
| www.lrb.co.uk | London Review of Books **** The London Review of Books is an twice-monthly independent literary paper dedicated to sustaining the tradition of the English essay in the style of the great 19th-century periodicals. Its contributors have space and freedom to develop their ideas at length and these include Frank Kermode, Alan Bennett, Christopher Hitchens, Hilary Mantel and Tom Paulin. The web-site runs trailers for articles in the current edition and has a review archive search-able by reviewer and subject. |
| www.thebookseller.com | The Bookseller **** The Bookseller provides news and features from the world of publishing. Front-page news features sales and commission stories with a weekly update of the media's book coverage plus industry careers information and situations vacant. Subscribers are eligible for discounts on key market reports, surveys and bibliographic products. |
| www.sfsite.com/interzone | Interzone **** Interzone is a British magazine publishing science-fiction and fantasy short stories. Founded in 1982, Interzone has featured the work of big names in the field such as from J. G. Ballard, Ian Watson and Gene Wolfe, but prides itself on nurturing newer writers. Highlights of numerous back issues are available online. |
| www.oed.com | Oxford English Dictionary ***** The Oxford English Dictionary is currently available as a 20-volume print edition, a set of CD-ROMs and here online. Updated quarterly with at least 1000 new and revised entries, OED Online offers access to the 'greatest continuing work of scholarship' (Newsweek). |
| www.author.co.uk | Author.co.uk **** Author offers a range of services for writers from manuscript preparation to proof-reading and editing, plus literary criticism, e-book production, Internet domain names, web site hosting, book-keeping, web design, and page hosting for individual authors. |
| /website.lineone.net | The Ring of Welsh Literature/ Cylch Llên Cymru **** The Ring of Welsh Literature/ Cylch Llên Cymru is a web-ring established to support the celebration, publication and promotion of the literature of Wales on the Web. Diverse, inclusive and bi-lingual, the RWL/CLC promotes poets, playwrights, prose writers, booksellers, publishers and arts organisations. |
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| www.writerswrite.com | Writers Write - Paying Markets ***** The Paying Markets section of the huge U.S. Writers Write resource site posts details of over 500 publications seeking paid written content. Browse them by genre category or A to Z buttons to reveal lists of periodicals with basic contact information. Each entry has another link into composite pages of further information including required length of article and pay rates. |
| www.writelink.dabsol.co.uk | Write Link **** Write Link keeps an ear to the ground for news of paid work in a wide range of publications. Subscribers receive a free monthly e-mail newsletter with news of site updates and reviews of Internet writing sites. There are descriptions and details of each publication such as size, catchment area and target audience plus submission policies and rates of pay. |
| Festivals | |
| www.edbookfest.co.uk | Edinburgh International Book Festival **** The Edinburgh International Book Festival jostles for space and attention with all the other festivals happening in Edinburgh every August. Its the largest literature festival in Britain with over 500 events for adults and children with readings, discussions, debates, performances, workshops, quizzes and demonstrations. EIBF features fiction, biography, poetry, crime, comedy, politics, psychology, lifestyles, journalism, food and drink, religion, music, travel, history, theatre, and gardening. Details onsite nearer the time. |
| www.hayfestival.co.uk | Sunday Times Hay Festival **** Hay-on-Wye has more book-shops per head of population on its few streets than anywhere in Britain. This little market town in the Black Mountains of Wales is UK book industry's equivalent to Glastonbury. The 2001 Festival runs from 25th May - 3rd June and promises to be the usual party celebrating language and literature with the help of, jazz, rock, comedy, food and drink. "A cross between an international conference and a country wedding," according to the BBC. |
| www.cheltenhamfestivals.co.uk | The Cheltenham Festival of Literature **** The Cheltenham Festival of Literature has been celebrating the love of literature and the art of the book for 50 years. This year's main festival happens between 12 - 21 October preceded by a mini festival of Spring Events over the weekend of 20 - 22 April. A parallel CyberFest accompanies events with on-line workshops and web-cast performances. |
| www.brighton-festival.org.uk | Brighton Festival **** Billed as England's largest, the Brighton Festival takes place in May with its literary side sponsored by Waterstone's bookshop and the Open University. Major authors feature in a series of readings held in theatres alongside three weeks of festivities and fringe events. |
| News, Reviews & Interviews | |
| www.booksunlimited.co.uk | Books Unlimited ***** Another lively and packed Unlimited site from The Guardian / Observer newspaper stable with a steady flow of features channelled into web archives to make a vast resource of information, navigable from a variety of criteria. Reviews and interviews galore with separate sections for every genre, plus authors and critics choice sections, quizzes, and what's on selections of literary programmes on TV and radio. |
| www.richmondreview.co.uk | The Richmond Review **** The Richmond Review was the UK's first literary magazine to be published exclusively on-line. Updated at least monthly, the magazine has a team of around twenty-five regular contributors and editors, many at work in London book publishing, providing features, reviews and comment on the industry. |
| www.spikemagazine.com | Spike Magazine **** Spike is an E-zine running interviews, features, reviews and new writing by established and unpublished authors alike in the realms of music and literature. Spike accepts contributions if they like them and suggests you send an outline of what you want to contribute before you write. This is a labour of love, left-field site with an eclectic world-view (poets beware) and worth a visit for the links alone. |
| www.januarymagazine.com | January Magazine ***** January Magazine is a classy online literary magazine with a glossy feel, covering all areas of the book world right down to cookery, music, art and gardening with a high standard of journalism throughout. Twenty features are trailered on the front page and there's a key-word search facility for archived articles. A monthly newsletter is available for subscribers. |
| Publishing Practice | |
| www.plutobooks.com | Pluto Press **** Pluto Press is one of the UK's leading independent publishers and deals with critical writing across the social sciences and humanities. Their authors include Noam Chomsky, Jean Baudrillard, Antonio Gramsci and John Pilger. Pluto publishes over 60 titles a year and has a back-list of over 400 titles in areas such as anthropology, economics, environment, law and politics. |
| www.virago.co.uk | Virago **** Virago is the UK's principal publisher of contemporary women writers past and present with its Virago Modern Classics and Virago V imprints. The web-site includes portraits of the authors along with their synopses of their works in the archives. There are profiles, interviews and extracts from the Virago canon along with competitions and quizzes. |
| www.granta.com | Granta Books **** Granta Books is as an independent publishing company putting out 30-35 new titles per year and a similar number of paperback reprints from established and new writers. A Trade Enquiries section is pitched to booksellers and the book trade. The authors section provides an illustrated who's who and a library allows you to browse a catalogue of over 130 titles, arranged by subject. Subscriptions are available to the magazine which spawned the enterprise, of which every issue is still in print "because the writing inside endures." |
| www.codexbooks.co.uk | Codex Books **** Codex Books is an underground imprint based in Brighton publishing fiction and non-fiction from beyond the mainstream. With apocalyptic futurism, gay thrillers and authors from the alternative music world, including Billy Childish, Mark Manning a.k.a. Zodiac Mindwarp and Richard Hell. The site contains information on all Codex books and CDs, including extracts, press reviews, sound clips and author biographies. |
| www.booktrust.org.uk | New Writing & Literature Consortium An initiative by seven leading literature organisations to support the professional development of writers and others working within new writing and literature |
| http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/thefwwcp | Temp site for the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers,
UK The FWWCP is an umbrella organisation for writers groups and publishers who wish to share their skills and work with their communities. It has member groups and organisations around the World that share a belief that writing and publishing should be made accessible to all. The UK branch runs an annual festival of writing, organises training, develops networks, and encourages people to express themselves in writing |
| www.marxists.org | |
| http://www.nawe.co.uk | National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) NAWE represents and supports writers, teachers and all those involved in the development of creative writing in education. It holds a directory of writers who work in schools, colleges and communities that is available to search on the NAWE website |
| promo.net/pg | Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts). 1975 New eBooks produced in 2002 (they were 1240 in 2001) for a total of 6267 Total Project Gutenberg eBooks. |
| The Verbal Arts Centre, Northern Ireland The Verbal Arts Centre is a charitable body which was established in 1992 to explore, support and encourage the traditions of the oral narrative, storytelling and literature through local, regional and international perspectives. |
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