Contact the following:
International Centre for Distance Learning The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA Telephone: +44 (0)1908 653537 Fax: +44 (0)1908 654173 E-mail: icdl-enquiries@open.ac.uk Website: http://www-icdl.open.ac.uk
Search the Education UK website, produced by the British Council to help international students interested in studying for a UK course or qualification.
The Open College of Arts has a number of creative writing correspondence courses.
Open College of Arts Houndhill Worsborough Barnsley South Yorkshire S70 6TU Telephone: +44 (0)1226 730 495 Fax: +44 (0)1226 730 838 E-mail: open.arts@ukonline.co.uk Website: http://www.oca-uk.com
Study Programmes National Extension College The Michael Young Centre Purbeck Road Cambridge CB2 2HN Telephone: +44 (0)1223 400350 E-mail: info@nec.ac.uk Website: http://www.nec.ac.uk/courses
The Writing Magazine can provide you with information about correspondence courses.
Writing Magazine PO Box 4 Nairn IV12 4HU Telephone: +44 (0)1667 454441 Fax: +44 (0)1667 454401
For poetry correspondence courses contact
Blue Nose Poetry PO Box 29695 London E2 0FD Telephone: +44 (0)20 8981 2548 E-mail: bluenose@athelstan.netkonect.co.uk
The Open University runs distance learning courses world-wide
STELLA Scottish Literature course delivered via computer: http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STELLA/packs/stelpack.htm
The Writers Bureau runs creative writing correspondence courses
Other online courses:
trAce at the University of Nottingham Trent runs a number of creative writing courses e.g. Screenwriting, Novels.
Cardiff University has a Certificate course in creative writing
The University of East Anglia and Manchester Metropolitan University are developing online postgraduate courses
A very useful site/book is www.internetwriter.co.uk which contains excerpts from The Internet: A Writer's Guide (by Jane Dorner, A&C Black, £9.99) with over 1000 related links
Learn Direct and Hot Courses allow you to search for UK courses, including online courses.
An Introduction to Contemporary Children's Literature is run by the University of Surrey Roehampton with an emphasis on the development of children as readers.
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