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		Our range of websites offer a comprehensive guide to reading, UK and Commonwealth writers, literary translation and UK LITERARY FESTIVALS as well as information and texts from British Council creative writing projects. You can use our discussion boards and join in with online chats or sign up to our mailing lists.

enCompassculture

Our world-wide online book group where you can select books, read reviews, join in web discussions, chat to our online reader in residence, read news and find out how to set up a reading group.

contemporary writers

Detailed biographical and bibliographical information on over 500 UK and Commonwealth authors. New authors added every month. Search by author, genre, nationality, gender, publisher, title, and prize.

New Writing

A website for readers and teachers. It features selected texts grouped into themed sections. A new section added each month. Featuring poetry, short stories, extracts from published and soon-to-be published novels, and non-fiction pieces.

Literary Translation

This site explores the role of the translator and the challenges of translation, as well as the process of translation.

medi-cafe

The Medi-cafe is an online writing programme for students and writers from Morocco and Tunisia who work with UK writers and academics in a unique form of intercultural dialogue.

Lit Sutra

The Lit Sutra blogsite builds on the work of LitSutra - a programme of cultural relations through reading and writing linked to the success of our festival of Indian writing at The London Book Fair 2009.

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