LitRefs: Writers Resources

Writing

• Absolute Write
• Author Network
• Creative Arts East
• Learn to Write (Brian D. Akers)
• Workshops
• Publication statistics (Pearl Pirie)
• Get Writing (from the BBC)
• literaturetraining (UK training and professional development opportunities)
• Poetry Magic (magazine about writing poetry)
• The Literary Consultancy
• National Association of Writers in Education
• The Writers' Guild of Great Britain
• Royal Society of Literature
• The Story Corrective
• Women in Publishing
• Word Doctors
• emerging writers network
• The Writing Show

Publishing

• Independent Publishers Guild
• AA Independent Press Guide
• Bookwire
• Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (USA)
• duotrope (market info)
• Getting your poetry published in the UK
• Help! I need a publisher!
• How Publishing Really Works
• Kudos (competition news)
• literary magazine club
• Sally Quilford's competition calendar
• UK paper magazines (or try the Poetry Library's list)
• Jeff Bahr's US poetry magazine ratings
• Non-UK paper magazines
• Formalist-friendly magazines (Rose Kelleher)
• How To Publish Your Poetry (Peter Finch)
• Writer Beware
• from Making Light (about rejection)
• Making poetry submissions (by Chris Hamilton-Emery)
• Poetic Voices
• Preditors & Editors
• The Small Press Exchange
• Submission guidelines
• Two Rivers Press (publisher of poetry, prose and environmental writing)
• Rejection Collection
• Vanity Publishing - Advice and Warning
• WritersReign
• Writer's Services
• Writing Competitions (from JBWB)
• British Literary Prizes
• YouWriteOn.com
• readitswapit

General

• AA Independent Press Guide
• the Arvon foundation
• Bob's Poetic Surgery Shack
• Book Examiner
• The Book Trust
• Word Hustler
• Incwriters
• The Literary Platform
• LitKicks
• LitLine (a not-for-profit website for the independent literary community)
• Lit-net (A virtual literature centre for the UK West Midlands and beyond)
• Writers' Centre Norwich
• misc.writing
• NALD (National Association for Literature Development)
• New Pages
• Poets & Writers
• The Professional Writers' Source
• Red Room
• The Scriptorium
• Second Light (a network for older women poets)
• Skrev Press
• Society of Authors (UK)
• Spiral-Bound (newsletter)
• UK Web Archiving Consortium (Literature)
• writebuzz
• Writers Write
• WriteLink
• Writer's Resource Center (by John Hewitt)
• The Writers Voice
• The Writers' Workshop

UK groups and venues

• back room poets (Oxford, UK)
• Bank Street Writers (Bolton, UK)
• Blue Nose poets
• BookSlam
• Café Writers (Norfolk)
• Cambridge Writers Guild
• cambridgepoetry.org
• Cambridge Poetry Page
• Cambridge Storytellers
• Cambridge Writers
• Cambridge Writers of Imaginative Literature
• Dead Good Poets Society (Liverpool)
• East Anglian Writers
• Falmouth Poetry Group
• Guildford Writers
• Kent and Sussex Poetry Society
• King's Lynn Writers' Circle
• Leicester Poetry Society
• Leicester Writers
• Monday Night Group (Manchester)
• The National Association of Writers' Groups
• New Rivers Writers Group
• Northampton Literature Group
• Norwich Writers' Circle
• Paddington Writers
• Peterborough SF Writers' Group
• Poole Writers Circle
• Redwell Writers
• Tamworth Writers
• Thames Valley Writers' Circle
• Toddington Poetry Society
• Riverside Writers (West Kirby, UK)
• Ver Poets (St Albans)
• Walden Writers (Saffron Walden)
• Woodham writers
• Write Now! (Bury St Edmunds)

Online groups

• Fire in the Head (creative writing courses)
• Missouri University Writery
• Open University Poetry Society
• Waterstone's Reading Groups
• rec.arts.prose
• rec.arts.sf.composition

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