3 AM Magazine
Includes some UK authors although it mainly US and European writers.

Africa Arts Literature
Africa Arts information about African literature organised by country, genre and author.

The Alien Online
Science fiction, fantasy, horror and graphic novel news, reviews and articles.

Amazon Prizes List
Includes Arthur C Clarke Award, Betty Trask Awards, Booker Prize, British Book Awards, Guardian Fiction Prize, Orange Prize, Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, Whitbread Book Awards, Carnegie, Hans Christian Andersen Medal, Kate Greenaway Award for Illustrators, Kurt Maschler Award, Nestle Smarties Prize and Whitbread Children's Book of the Year.

Association for Scottish Literary Studies
Aims to promote the study, teaching and writing of Scottish literature, and to further the study of the languages of Scotland. Links to Scottish writers.

BBC Book Club
BBC Book club where you can comment on any of the books listed. Forthcoming books for discussion are also listed.

Bloomsbury Magazine Reading Group
Bloomsbury (the publisher) reading group site with reading guides.

Bookgroup.info
Dedicated to reading groups, this site is based on the reviews of a Brighton reading group. Features an archive of books previously discussed, adds a new title each month. Also offers advice on setting up new forums. Group members identify with a different pair of shoes!

Book Information
Invaluable Booktrust database site. Search for uk new and forthcoming books, publishers and literary awards and prizes.

Books @ Random
Random House Publisher reading group guides with a description of the book, questions, discussion topics, author biography, and sometimes a note from the author.

Booktrade
Book trade site including news and directories of agents, publishers, awards and bookshops.

Booktrust Prizes
Information on all the literary prizes in the UK including the prizes Booktrust administer: Booker Prize, Kurt Maschler Award, Smarties Prize, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Orange Prize, Commonwealth Writers Prize and Sainsbury's Baby Book Award.

Born Magazine
Born Magazine is an experimental venue marrying literary arts and interactive media. Original projects are brought to life every three months through creative collaboration between writers and artists.

Bridport Prize
The Bridport Prize is an annual international creative writing competition for poetry and short stories. The closing date for entries which may either be sent by post or online is 30th June. The Bridport Prize is one of the top prizes of its kind in terms of both prestige and prize money. It has been the first step in the careers of many established poets and novelists. The prize money now totals £10,000.

British Comparative Literature Association / British Centre for Literary Translation Translation Competition
Prize for the best unpublished literary translations from any language into English.

British Science Fiction Association
Information about their magazines and awards plus links.

Canterbury Public Library - Literary prizes and Awards
Useful information on the Betty Trask Awards, Crime Writers' Association Awards, Guardian Awards, Hugo Awards for Science Fiction, Nebulla Awards for Science Fiction, Whitbread Prizes, Kate Greenaway Award and the Carnegie.

Chapman Magazine
Scottish literary magazine with selections and subscription information.

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.

Commonwealth Broadcasting Association
Has information about the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Competition.

Commonwealth Writers Prize
Commonwealth Writers Prize web site.

Complete review
Reviews of books that have recently been published, republished, are in the news, or that have recently been added to the archives. With indices by author, title, genre, and national origin. Links to other relevant sites, including book review and publishers' sites

Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbred)
Official site for the range of Costa awards for contemporary British writing.

Crimetime
Crime writing magazine with extracts online.

Crime Writers Association
Organisation promoting the appreciation of crime fiction and non-fiction, including an annual award.

enCompass Culture
An online book group for children and adults with book recommendations organised by different categories (e.g. science, general fiction etc.)

English Service Collection
Complete works online - plays, poetry, fiction, short fiction and criticism.

Exiled Writers
Information about refugee and exiled writer communities.

Eyes Wide Open
A select bibliography of new fiction from the UK 1999-2001.

Fantastic Fiction
Bibliographies of science fiction, fantasy and horror genres.

The Good Book Guide
Bookshop with extensive reviews of new titles.

Guardian Author Reference
Encyclopaedic reference to hundreds of past and present authors.

Guardian Unlimited Blog
A new blog from Guardian Unlimited to create an Atlas of Literature from around the world.

Index on Censorship
Bi-monthly magazine for free speech, with news and selections.

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Official site for the world's richest literary prize, with entries nominated by public libraries around the world. Useful information online about shortlists and winners.

John Smith and Son
Online bookshop.

Kids' Own Publishing Partnership
Details on various Kid's 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.

Lion and the Unicorn Bookshop
Children's literature bookshop with reviews and online magazine.

Literary Consultancy
Details of how to send in poems and stories for professional evaluation for a fee.

Literature Awards Winners
International literary awards site that includes an awards calendar.

Man Booker Prize
Official Man Booker Prize web site.

Mslexia
Magazine 'for women who write'.

Murder Squad
A group of crime authors.

National Library for the Blind
National Library for the Blind web site with news on the latest books, a writer in residence, fiction café for the selection of books to suit your mood, and the library catalogue.

Nestle Smarties Prize
Children's literature prize site.

Northamptonshire County Council Learning Resources for Education
Includes an A-Z of links to children's book author sites.

Orange Prize
Official site for this annual prize for the best novel by a woman; good information online.

Orange Word Audio Archive
A selection of author interviews from their annual Writers' season.

Over My Dead Body
Mystery magazine. Book reviews, movie reviews, author profiles and interviews. Older files are in the morgue.

Penguin Readers Group
Penguin publisher's reading group site. How to set up a reading group, a directory of readers groups, author of the month and Toby Litt's cult choice. Requires free registration..

Pulp.net
Pulp Net is an online magazine of new short fiction and fiction reviews. Each month it publishes three new short stories by established and rising new authors. The Live Lit page offers selected highlights of London's fiction events.

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.

Route Online
Combines music and Flash-based e-texts (including fiction and poetry).

SALIDAA
SALIDAA (South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive) is an online digital archive containing a substantial body of work produced by South Asian writers, artists, performers and musicians in England from 1947 to the present. The literature collection includes a wide variety of materials such as excerpts of fiction, poetry and plays, manuscripts and writers’ notes.

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

Shotsmag
Crime and mystery online magazine with articles, reviews and interviews.

Skrev Press
Skrev Press promotes shorter fiction, namely: short stories, novellas and novels under 80,000 words. Their publication "Texts' Bones", available by subscription or free download, promotes experimental shorter fiction. It also contains critical reviews of contemporary short fiction titles and authors.

Stand Magazine
Fiction and poetry, with subscription details online.

STELLA
Electronic courses in Scottish literature.

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.

TTA Press
Publishers of the magazines The Third Alternative, Crimewave (including Crimewave Specials) and The Fix.

The Times
The Times books section with extracts from novels and reviews.

Vintage Books Reading Group Guides
Vintage Books reading group guides include a description of each book, questions, discussion topics, and author biographies.

WATCH File
Writers, Artists, and their Copyright Holders (WATCH) is a database of copyright holders or contact persons for authors and artists whose archives are housed, in whole or in part, in libraries and archives in North America and the United Kingdom.

Welsh Literature
Useful history of Welsh literature, from the dawn to time to the present day.

Which Book Net
Fun book selection site from OpenLibraries Ltd.

Word of Mouth
Online discussion group with three sections: Buzz - the book everybody's talking about or should be; Challenge - incredibly tough reads- were they worth it?; and Indulgence - books read purely for enjoyment.

Words Without Borders
Words Without Borders undertakes to promote international communication through translation of the world's best writing - selected and translated by a distinguished group of writers, translators, and publishing professionals - and publishing and promoting these works (or excerpts) on the web. Words Without Borders is hosted by Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

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.

Writers Artists
Information on some authors, George Szirtes, Ruth Fainlight.

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