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ABC Tales

The story and poetry site where you can explore and develop your creative writing skills, get support from our editors, publish your short stories and poems online, get feedback and writing tips and meet fellow writers, all for free.

Abroad Writers' Conferences

Abroad Writers' Conference is one of the leading International Writers' Conferences, where world voices in the Arts and Sciences are heard. 

Adventures in Fiction

Adventures in Fiction provides confidential mentoring and editorial advice to writers at all stages in their careers.

Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge)

Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge) offers courses in Creative and Professional Writing. Many students choose to combine Writing with English or Drama or Film Studies

Arts Council England

Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts in England, distributing public money from Government and the National Lottery. It is a key stakeholder in The New Writing Partnership.

Arvon Foundation

The Arvon Foundation provides residential writing courses.

Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership

The Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership brings together individuals and organisations interested in new writing from the world’s most populous and dynamic region, the Asia-Pacific.

Askaboutwriting

Askaboutwriting is an Internet resource site for writers of all abilities which receives in excess of 8,000 individual visits a month.

Black History Month

Black History Month (BHM) is held every October in Britain and was first celebrated in 1987. Click on the link to find out more about events in Norfolk.

British Council

The British Council is the UK's international public diplomacy body.  Its arts work brings the UK arts scene to the rest of the world.

Cafe Writers

Group promoting established and new writers throughout Norfolk and beyond. Poetry Competition 2006 just launched - see website for details!

Cambridge WordFest

Annual literature festival in Cambridge.

Cambridge Writers

Cambridge Writers is an organisation of both published and unpublished writers in Cambridge (U.K.) and nearby towns and villages. 

City University London

City University offers various writing courses, including a Creative Writing MA designed to fit around busy lives. 

Commonword

Commonword is a literature development agency and community publisher. It exists to nurture and support new writers in the North West of England.

Cormorant Publishing

A new East Anglian business to help more local writers into print

Creative Arts East

Creative Arts East is an arts development agency which provides practical support to the arts community in Norfolk. 

Essex Book Festival

Annual Essex literature festival.

Five Leaves

Five Leaves is a small publisher based in Nottingham.

Flight Paths

A networked novel by Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph. The initial goal of this project is to create a work of digital fiction, a ‘networked book’, created on and through the internet.

Goldsmiths College, London

MFA Art Writing is a new programme for practitioners who want to develop work that addresses art as writing, writing as art and writing about art – with the aim of encouraging and debating diverse potentials in the new field of contemporary art writing.

Ink and Lead Theatre

Ink and Lead Theatre is the home of Ann Winter’s writing on the web. She is keen to develop the site with links to the pages of writing initiatives and fellow writers in the North East and East of England.


 

Inpress Books

Inpress provides sales and marketing management for independent presses.

Literature Training

Resource for writers and those involved in creating or supporting new writing and literature. Info on training and professional development opportunities available in the UK.

Mslexia

Mslexia is the magazine for women who write.  You can get advice and inspiration; news, reviews, interviews; competitions and grants. 

National Association of Literature Development

NALD is the professional body for all involved in developing writers, readers and literature audiences.

National Association of Writers in Education

The National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) is the one organisation supporting the development of creative writing of all genres and in all educational settings throughout the UK.

National Association of Writers' Groups

The National Association of Writers' Groups has something for everyone who writes.  

Norfolk County Council

The county council is a key stakeholder in The New Writing Partnership.

Norwich City Council

The city council is a key stakeholder in The New Writing Partnership.

Paris Writers Workshop

The Paris Writers Workshop takes place in the heart of Montparnasse, the city’s traditional artistic and bohemian quarter.

Pen & Inc Press

Pen & Inc Press was a small independent publisher based at the University of East Anglia. It produced ‘Pretext’, ‘Reactions’ and the MA creative writing students’ anthology.

PoetCasting

PoetCasting is a poetry podcasting project which works with poets throughout the UK. The project features published poets, new poets, established poets and everything in between reading their own work.

Poetry Library

The Poetry Library houses the most comprehensive poetry collection in Britain.  Based in the Royal Festival Hall.

Poetry Translation Centre

 A small organisation dedicated to translating contemporary poetry from Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Royal Festival Hall

The Royal Festival Hall is a leading London arts venue.

Sable Litmag

Sable LitMag is an international publication.

Society of Authors

The Society of Authors is a non-profit making organisation, founded to protect the rights and further the interests of authors.

Spread The Word

Spread the Word works with London writers at every stage of their development to enable them to achieve their full potential. We provide showcase events, professional career advice, workshops , and work in schools.

Templar Poetry Press

Templar Poetry is a new independent poetry press based in Derbyshire. It is committed to publishing the best new poetry, its pamphlets and books being professionally produced and reasonably priced and  available nationally.

The Asian Writer

A new and exciting initiative which provides a platform to Asian writers. It aims to inspire the next generation of British Asian writers and raise the profile of talented emerging writers

The Incwriters Society

Incwriters is a site with articles, interviews, criticism, promotions, bookshop, events, news.

The Literary Consultancy

The Literary Consultancy gives first-class, market-informed editorial advice and manuscript assessment to writers at any level writing in English.

The Manchester Review

The Manchester Review takes its cue from their proactive promotion of new writing, but uses online media to show and sponsor the interplay of poetry, fiction, music, visual art and essays by new and established practitioners.

The Poetry Business

The Poetry Business publishes books, pamphlets and audio under the Smith/Doorstop imprint, and publishes literary magazine The North. It also runs Writing Days, the Writing School and the original Book & Pamphlet Competition

 

The Poetry Trust

The Poetry Trust is a registered charityand its core activity is the annual Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. The Trust also delivers a year-round programme of events, publications and creative education opportunitiesl.

The Reader

The Reader is a quarterly magazine based at the University of Liverpool's School of English.  It publishes reviews, essays, interviews and high quality new poetry and fiction.  It also runs community projects and programmes for schools. 

The Word Pool

The Word Pool is a site about children’s books for parents, teachers and writers.

The Writer's Practice

The Writer's Practice is a new literary consultancy based in Norwich and London, offering detailed manuscript assessment of novels, children’s books and radio plays. With experienced tutors, the consultancy aims to give clear, market-based advice for your next draft.

The Writers' Workshop

The Writers' Workshop is an editorial and advisory service for first-time writers. It is staffed exclusively by professional novelists and other published authors, with specialist editors for children's fiction, fantasy/sci-fi, screenwriting and more.

The Writing Squad

A programme for emerging young writers in Yorkshire and the Humber.The Writing Squad is an independent organisation hosted by Sheffield Hallam University

The Writing Workshop Notebook

A useful tool for anyone embarking on running a creative writing workshop which advises writers on how to get the most out of their workshops, and provides exercises for writers who can’t enroll in organized classes.

UnheardWords

The online writing group for new writers of colour.

University of East Anglia

UEA has a renowned School of Literature & Creative Writing. The university is a key stakeholder in The New Writing Partnership.

Wasafiri

Over the last twenty years, the journal Wasafiri has brought together international contemporary writing in English as well as art and film. Its main focus has been the representation and experience of Britain's diverse cultural heritage.

Write Away

Write Away is an online community where writers help one another succeed. Advice is provided by people who have 'been there and done it'. WriteAway represents a fund of expertise in writing and publishing.

Write Words

WriteWords is the writers' site offering support, advice, interviews and articles, as well as info on jobs, opportunities, competitions and news.

Writer's Market UK

Writer’s Market UK (David & Charles) is the single most comprehensive guide to writing and getting published today. Writer's Market UK offers a book and a dedicated website full of fresh, up-to-date information.

 

Writernet

Writernet provides dramatic writers with the tools they need to build better careers and redefine the culture in which they work.

Writers' Nexus

Writers' Nexus offers writers the chance to connect with its list of 3000 agents and publishers. 

Writing Raw

Writing Raw is a literary sharing website where writers can upload, view and share their writing.