Digital fiction
Flash projects. Atmospheric online writing, interactive narratives, multimedia fiction, animated diaries, urban horror, dreams and nightmares.

100 Words
The idea behind 100 words is to write 100 words, no more, no less, every day. On this website, you will find 15,658 chunks of 100 words written by a number of participants in a number of styles. Some are poems, some are stories, some are diaries, some are fiction, some are nonsense.

ABC Tales
Read and write stories. Discussion forum about stories and poems, start a conversation with fellow readers about the latest book, article or poem that you've read, chat with others, share your experiences with your fellow authors or would-be-authors.

Adventures in Fiction
An independent editorial consultancy providing a confidential, one to one mentoring service to writers.

Akerbeltz
Collection of Scottish Gaelic resources, including a dictionary of idioms and expressions, notes on grammar, selections of traditional rhymes and riddles, and information on names and surnames. Presented in Gaelic, with English translations available for much of the content.

Anne Aylor's Creative Writing Workshops
Short courses in creative writing run at various locations around the UK.

Art Circus
Gateway to Route Online, The Open Line and Digital Fiction sites.

Arvon Foundation
With four centres in the UK, runs a wide range of residential creative writing courses

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.

Association of Authors' Agents
Membership organisation for author agents: a forum to discuss industry matters, to represent the interests of agents and their clients and to uphold a code of good practice.

author.co.uk
Online resources and listings for writers including UK writer's circles directory. How to write, a writer's magazine, articles and interviews.

Bangor University - Centre for Creative and Performing Arts
Bangor Centre for Creative and Performing Arts. Includes details of their Creative Writing courses.

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.

Biographer's Club Prize 2006
The Biographer's Club prize is sponsored by the Daily Mail and accepts entries exclusively from uncommisioned biography writers.

BRAW
BRAW is the national children’s book network in Scotland. Working to promote books, reading and writing, by authors and illustrators living in Scotland, to Scottish children and young people.

British Academy
Grants information.

British Society of Comedy Writers
The British Society of Comedy Writers (BSCW) is a new professional organisation that aims to develop good practice and professionalism among comedy writers, whilst bringing together under a single umbrella the best creative professionals, working to standards of excellence agreed with the light entertainment industry.

Cardiff University Online Creative Writing Course
Online creative writing course at certificate level.

Chapman Magazine
Scottish literary magazine with selections and subscription information.

City Stories Project
A global online writing project where readers submit their own personal true stories about the cities they live in. This can include, for example, impressions, sights and sounds conjured up by living in a particular locale. Anyone is free to contribute a story, but the site discourages fictional stories.

Clean
An online writing project for the Women's Library.

Comma Press
Comma Press is an independent, not-for-profit collective dedicated to the publication and promotion of new fiction, away from the London-centric world of mainstream publishing. Comma Press seeks to promote fiction, and short fiction by commissioning and inviting submissions from a range of established and just-starting-out authors.

ContinYou
ContinYou uses learning to tackle inequality and build social inclusion. We create learning programmes and services that offer fresh opportunities to people who have gained least from formal education and training.

Crimetime
Crime writing magazine with extracts online.

Cutting Teeth
New writing by well established and previously unpublished writers. Extracts and subscription details online.

David T. Wong Fellowship in Creative Writing
An annual award of £25,000 for someone who is writing about the orient. The fellow is expected to reside at the University of East Anglia for one year, where he/she is expected only to write. There are no teaching commitments.

Digital fiction
Flash projects. Atmospheric online writing, interactive narratives, multimedia fiction, animated diaries, urban horror, dreams and nightmares.

Exeter University Online Creative Writing and Literature Courses
Online courses in Creative Writing and Poetry, Form and Experiment.

Exiled Writers
Information about refugee and exiled writer communities.

Hélène du Coudray Undergraduate Novel Writing Prize
The Maia Press is launching the only UK prize for undergraduate first novelists on 23 January 2006. This is in association with the Middlesex University Writing Centre and Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford, with funding from Arts Council England. The entrants have a year to finish their novel, which must be received by the 3 January 2007.

The Incwriters Society
Incorporating writing, live literarture, reviews, industry news, interviews, giveaways

I Can't Get Published
I Can't Get Published offers nformation to help you determine the best course for your creation. Explore this site to find suggestions and ideas for publishing or marketing your book, manuscript or song.

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.

International Journal for the Theory and Practice of Creative Writing
Information about the International Journal for the Theory and Practice of Creative Writing.

Internet: A Writer's Guide
Contains excerpts from The Internet: A Writer's Guide with over 1,000 related links.

Kids on the Net
The children's section of the trAce International Writing Community site. Includes creative writing and book reviews sent in by children from across the world, resources and networking for schools and teachers, and the Monster Motel, a spine-chilling collaborative writing project.

Kids' Own Publishing Partnership
Details on various Kids' Own projects, including on-line extracts from books written and illustrated by children, an art and new technologies project for primary children based around maps, and various puzzles and games.

KidStuff
A site designed and edited by teenagers, full of stories and poems sent in by readers, puzzles and games, current news, and an interesting collaborative 'forking story'. Has a very active Children Notes discussion area.

Labyrinth
Kate Mosse, who is in the process of writing a novel called Labyrinth, shares the research, stories and inspiration behind the novel. You can contribute to the library, explore the 3D world, or take part in a monthly competition.

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.

Lit-Net
For readers, writers, librarians, etc, based in the West Midlands region, with useful online resources.

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.

London School of Journalism
Has creative writing courses.

London Writing Workshops
Intensive and inspiring short creative writing courses suitable for all levels of experience. More information: londonwritingworkshops@googlemail.com

Mslexia
Magazine 'for women who write'.

National Centre for Research in Children's Literature
For those studying children's literature in the UK. Resources, activities and individuals. Children's literature distance learning information.

The Never Ending Story
The site allows Internet users from around the world to read, and importantly add to, ongoing fictional stories started by famous people and authors who have each kindly written the first page of stories for the site.

Open College of the Arts
Information about correspondence courses in creative writing.

Panic! Brixton Poetry
Magazine of poetry, writing and art based in Brixton, South London.

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.

Phone-Book.com
Publishes ultra short fiction from 150 characters to 150 words in length for distribution by WAP-enabled devices as well as the internet.

Progression
Progression offers some of the best in fiction and poetry. As well as interviews and topical articles on culture and art.

Reading Club
Book It! Reading Clubs - ContinYou has been helping schools set up Year 7/S1 reading clubs since 1998. To date they have set up nearly 300 clubs, and our emphasis is on reading for pleasure, rather than for Key Stage 3 or curricular development.

Reader's Paradise
Reviews of new fiction with interviews.

Richmond Review
Pioneering web-based literary mag, with a big archive of reviews and new writing.

Royal Court Theatre
Includes details of the young writers programme.

Screenlab
Information about a screenwriting workshop.

Scriberazone
Magazine for poetry, raps, short stories, lyrics, slams, and other scribblings.

Script Factory
One of the UK's leading centres for developing screenwriting talent. The Script Factory also offers a script reading/ evaluation service.

Society of Authors
Non-profit membership organisation lobbying for the rights of writers.

Short Story
News, information and advice for short-story writers. Search over 500 short-story collections. National Short Story Prize information.

Soho Theatre
Includes details of the writer's centre.

Stand Magazine
Fiction and poetry, with subscription details online.

Story Bank
Comma Press has launched a series of spoken word performances from some of the UK’s finest short fiction writers – for free. Story Bank is a new pilot scheme allowing browsers to download audio mp3s of stories written and performed by a plethora of contemporary authors. The long-term aim of the project is to build a library of contemporary short story mp3s from Comma’s stables and those of other publishers.

Story Wars
Submit your short stories and watch them battle their way to the top of the chart. Submit as many stories as you want - or you prefer, you can simply read, rate and review some of the collection.

Streaming Stories
Streaming Stories is a community education programme where participants learn digital media skills and produce original art, movies, music and text to share with other members of the community via the website and talk areas.

Tangled Web UK
Large site devoted to crime, mystery and fantastic fiction. Extensive reviews, author profiles, book lists and up-to-date news.

trAce
Lively web-based community for writers and readers, with writers-in-residence, writing workshops, new web-specific writing, collaborative writing projects and on- and off-line events. Online creative writing school. Resources for UK Black writers and readers can be found at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/traced/blackwr.htm.

Transcript
Transcript is a bi-monthly review of books and writing from around Europe. Its aim is to promote quality literature written in the smaller languages and to give wider circulation to material from small-language literary publications through the medium of English, French and German.

Ty Newydd
Centre for creative writing in Wales that runs creative writing courses.

Unwritten
A collection of possible books. Short interviews are recorded with people about a book they dream of writing or making. Limited edition mini-books are published from transcripts of the interviews, which are made available to readers at exhibitions and special events. Monthly book club of three mini-books to read online.

V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize
The Royal Society of Literature invites entries from published or unpublished writers for The V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize. A prize of £1,000 will be awarded for a short story of 2,000 - 5,000 words. The closing date is 14 February 2006.  Entries will be judged by Sebastian Barker, editor of The London Magazine, Candia McWillian and Piers Paul Read, and the winning story will be published in The London Magazine. Entrants must be citizens of the UK or Republic of Ireland.

Word Hoard
Co-operative of writers and other artists based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Runs the Huddersfield Poetry Festival.

Words Words Words
'Words Words Words' is a literary e-zine published online every quarter. The website contains articles, fiction, short stories, poems and links to further resources. Submissions for publication online are accepted from writers around the globe.

Wordup
Resources for writers, with a database of links and a literary prize.

Writers Bureau
Writing school site with correspondence courses by post (no online courses)..

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 Circle
Lists writers' circles and also has information for writers.

Writers Services
Commercial services for unpublished writers, including reader's and editor's reports, and copy editing.

The Writer's Guild of Great Britiain
The Guild, through its industrial agreements ensures that screenwriters are not only properly paid, but also properly credited for their work and often carries out credit arbitration on behalf of members.

Writing.com
For readers and writers. Join in and write the next chapter.

YouWriteOn.com
Feedback site for new writers with free professional critiques for highly rated stories from established authors and editors for leading literary agents and publishers, including Curtis Brown, Orion and Bloomsbury.

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