For short courses in the UK please refer to Literaturetraining.com, a searchable database that helps you to find the workshop, course, network, service or resource material you are interested in.

School of Advanced Study
SAS offers a wide number of conferences all year-round.

Poets and Writers
The Poets and Writers website offers listings of literary conferences and residencies around the world.

Conference Alerts
This website lists a large number of literature conferences around the world.

A number of publications and web sites provide details of degree courses in the UK:

Learn Direct contains an extensive database of 500,000 nationwide courses, plus practical information and advice on learning.

Hobsons is a graduate careers search and advice site with a useful postgraduate course search feature. Also listed are contact details of over 400 UK educational institutions.

UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admission Service) is the UK central organisation through which applications are processed for entry to full-time first degrees, HNDs and university diplomas. The UCAS website provides a comprehensive course search facility as well as detailed information on all institutions offering degrees.

Online courses:

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.

Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media
The MA in Creative Writing and New Media in the Faculty of Humanities at De Montfort University is designed for writers interested in exploring the potential of new technologies in their writing via a combination of online study with a week-long workshop in the UK.

Oxford University online courses
Oxford University is now running online literature courses.

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 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 1,000 related links

Learn Direct, Hot Courses and Education UK include online course information.

A number of organisations in the UK provide distance learning or correspondence courses.

• The International Centre for Distance Learning is an internationally-recognised centre for research, teaching, consultancy, information and publishing activities based in the UK Open University.
• The National Extension College. has a number of creative writing correspondence courses
• For poetry correspondence courses contact Blue Nose Poetry

The Writing Magazine can provide you with information about correspondence courses. Address details of this publication as well as the organisations listed above can be found on the FAQs page.

Other useful links:

• The Open University runs distance learning courses world-wide.
• STELLA Scottish Literature course is delivered via computer.
• The Writers Bureau runs creative writing correspondence courses.