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A dynamic electronic catalogue of UK poetry with audio, audio-visual and interactive features. Host to the iPoems system and the worlds' first Poetry Video-Jukebox (subcription service - £10.00 for one years streaming access or 50p per audio-file and £1.00 per audio-visual file) along with the original Poetry Jukebox featuring over 40 poets reading their poems (free).
Adventures in Fiction
An independent editorial consultancy providing a confidential, one to one mentoring service to writers.
Information about African literature organised by country, genre and author.
African Books Collective
African Books Collective is an organisation of 102 independent and autonomous African publishers. The site includes catalogues of both adult and children's books
Africa Book Centre
Buy books and music from and about Africa from this London-based centre. There is a section on Africa's 100 greatest books of the 20th century.
Read specially commissioned pieces by the four award winning African Writers, Meshack Asare, Shimmer Chinodya, Charles Mongoshi and Buchi Emecheta. An internet residency for teachers and children.
Ask About Writing
Publishes general writing news and news of events, competitions, and what's on where, in addition to a growing list of reviewed writer-relevant websites.
AskOxford.com
Oxford University Press's new free web service/language portal. This offers advice, downloads, resources, tips, searchable dictionaries, word-challenge games, crosswords, and quizzes plus online language learning resources. Lots of stuff for ELT as well.
Resources for writers, interviews, listen to books' radio programmes online. BBC Get Writing - tips and advice including online mini-courses, quizzes, articles and tools. BBC Poetry - poems to make, watch and hear. Listen to John Hegley, Adrian Mitchell, Benjamin Zephaniah and many more well-loved poets. Create your own poems in handy fridge-magnet style, view flash animated poems and John Hegley's 'What a Poem is Not' with animations by students from the Royal College of Art. BBC - How to write a screenplay - online advice on how to write a screenplay. BBC - The Writers Room - read a first draft of a script, browse through some notes, watch the writers working at their virtual table, or read transcripts from the chat rooms.
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British Council Audio and Flash Poetry
Over two hours of audio and flash animated poems by contemporary UK poets.With over 300 literary links, listings of literary periodicals and festivals, information about our projects and products including websites, bibliographies and our annual anthlogy of New Writing.
The Caine Prize for African Writers is an annual award for a short story by an African writer published in English anywhere in the world. This site also has information on creative writing workshops that are taking place throughout Africa, and links to other sites of interest to African writers.
Large database of contemporary performers, writers and artists in Africa, with external links.
Information about over 500 UK and Commonwealth authors. Biographies, bibliographies, prizes won, critical reviews and author statements.
Crossing Borders is a British Council/University of Lancaster creative writing project in Africa. The workshops have been completed but participant's work is now being showcased in an online magazine. There is detailed information about all of the writers involved in the project, in-depth essays on writing from a variety of established writers, links news and online workshops including poetry, prose and a Radioscriptwriting workshop with: how to write a radio play; how to write a radio serial drama; and a history of African radio broadcasting.
With over 6,000 UK and Commonwealth books listed on site and booklists such as Reading the City, Graphic Novels, TBooks (teenage literature), Science Fiction to Science Fact and much more. Sections for adults, teenagers, children and reading groups. An Online Reader in Residence, blog, book quizzes, monthly newsletter and author interviews. Discussion boards and online chat with readers and authors.
Including reviews, biographies, podcasts and much more. Guardian Author Reference - an encyclopaedic reference to hundreds of past and present authors. Guardian Unlimited Blog - new blog to create an Atlas of Literature from around the world. Guardian Poetry Workshop - monthly poetry workshop hosted by a UK poet who sets an exercise , selects the most interesting responses and provides an appraisal for them.
UK website where you can download monthly podcasts featuring unsigned music, poetry and prose. Listeners can submit their own mp3s.
The Incwriters Society
Incorporating writing, live literarture, reviews, industry news, interviews, giveaways.
Independent Radio Drama
How to write radio drama, an internet play and information.
International Centre for Distance Learning
Includes information about distance learning literary and creative writing courses.
Internet: A Writer's Guide
Contains excerpts from The Internet: A Writer's Guide with over 1,000 related links.
Learn English
A British Council site that will help you improve your English. Has games and activities for Kids, Teens and Adults, including a writer-in-residence.
LiteraryAgent.co.uk
A site designed for aspiring writers, with information on UK literary agents, online forum and paid critique service.
Literary Consultancy
Details of how to send in poems and stories for professional evaluation for a fee.
Literature Training
Brings together the expertise of the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE); Writernet (supporting the careers of dramatic writers); the National Association for Literature Development (NALD); the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers (FWWCP); Lapidus (a membership organisation promoting the literary arts in personal development), Survivors' Poetry (promoting poetry by survivors of mental distress) and Apples & Snakes (England's leading organisation for performance poetry). To support the professional development of writers and others working within new writing and literature.
Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa
The prize takes place every two years and its aim is to promote and celebrate unpublished African writing.
Storytelling workshop ideas by the storyteller Elly Stuart linked to the Magic Pencil children's literature exhibition.
Culture Resource (Al Mawred Al Thaqafy) is a regional, non-profit organization that seeks to support artistic creativity in the Arab region and to encourage cultural exchanges within this region and with the developing world.
Short video clips of authors talking about their books. With over 800 author clips.
Read extracts from new fiction, poems and essays alongside teacher's and reader's notes, author interviews and glossaries. A new theme is added every month.
One Word
Online literary radio site - listen to book extracts and series, plus author interviews.
Open College of the Arts
Information about correspondence courses in creative writing.
In-depth interviews of writers, dating from decades ago to the present day.
Plays on the Net
A website designed for writers wishing to promote themselves by uploading their plays. Visitors to the site can download the plays for reading (or listening) and add their own reviews and comments.
Poems on the Underground
Downloads of UK contemporary poets reading poems featured in the 'Poems on the Underground' project.
Read about poets from around the world, read poems and news.
Poetry Jukebox
Listen to mp3s of performance poets doing what they do best. Features over 40 poets such as Patience Agbabi, Kwame Dawes and more...
Comprehensive poetry collection with lists of magazines and poetry prizes online. Make your own virtual poem.
The Poetry Society
The Poetry Society exists to help poets and poetry to thrive in the UK. This site offers information on publications, competitions, events and projects as well as specialist advice and information.
There's a strong collaboration between music and poetry on this site. You can download mp3s from spoken word artists as well as reviews, interviews, pictures and short films.
Script Factory
One of the UK's leading centres for developing screenwriting talent. The Script Factory also offers a script reading/ evaluation service.
News, information and advice for short-story writers. Search over 500 short-story collections.
A collective of London's spoken word artists and promoters who bring the thriving underground scene a little closer to the surface. Find out what spoken word is all about and check out details of London poetry events. Includes downloads.
The Times Books
The Times books section with extracts from novels and reviews.
Writernet
Provides information, advice and guidance on all aspects of the live and recorded performing industry to writers working in performance mediums - and those who want to work them.
Writers Services
Commercial services for unpublished writers, including reader's and editor's reports and copy editing.
