| Manchester Childrens Book Festival www.manchesterchildrensbookfestival.co.uk/ |
| English Department www.hlss.mmu.ac.uk/english |
| The Manchester Writing Competition www.manchesterwritingcompetition.co.uk |
| The Manchester Writing School The MA programme in Creative Writing, including routes in Fiction, Poetry & Children’s Writing. The Writing School also provides a programme of public events and readings. www.hlss.mmu.ac.uk/english/writingschool/ |
| 247 Manchester Theatre Festival Annual theatre festival. (July) www.247theatrefestival.co.uk |
| Action Transport Theatre www.actiontransporttheatre.co.uk |
| Arts Council (England) North West www.artscouncil.org.uk/regions/homepage.php?rid=5 |
| Arvon Foundation
Arvon provides residential creative writing courses at four historic houses around the UK. The courses – tutored by professional, published writers – are world famous for the inspiration they provide to writers at every stage of their writing lives. |
| Blast the BBC creative writing site www.bbc.co.uk/blast/writing/ |
| Book Army
Book Review site |
| Book Glutton
Connecting readers and their books |
| Book Mooch
Book Mooch lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want |
| Books Well read
Designed for…
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| Book Trust an independent national charity that encourages people of all ages and cultures to discover and enjoy reading |
| British Council Contemporary Writers Database www.contemporarywriters.com |
| Cartwheel Arts Cartwheel is one of the leading participatory arts groups in the North West, based in Heywood, Manchester |
| Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals www.cilip.org.uk |
| Children’s Bookshow Childrens reading events and competitions |
| Children’s Poetry Bookshelf See their Old Possum’s Children’s Poetry Competition 2008 ! |
| Come Strut your Stuff Monthly Liverpool poetry and acoustic music event www.comestrutyourstuff.co.uk/ |
| Connect Via Books Make new friends, discuss your favourite books, review books, get recommendations, and more www.connectviabooks.com |
| Commonword Manchester writers’ group www.cultureword.org.uk |
| Community Arts North West www.can.uk.com/ |
| Contact an author |
| Cool Reads Books for 10-15 year old readers reviewed by 10-15 year olds www.cool-reads.co.uk/ |
| Cornerhouse Cinema Arthouse film, education, exhibitions and education in Manchester www.cornerhouse.org |
| Creative Partnerships the Government’s flagship creativity programme for schools and young people, focusing on the most deprived communities in England. |
| Crime Time
Detective/Crime writing site/magazine |
| Crime Writers Association |
| Dead Good Poets Society Liverpool Poets group www.deadgoodpoetssociety.co.uk/ |
| Directory of Writers Circles, Courses and Workshops www.writers-circles.com |
| The English & Media Centre The EMC serves the needs of secondary and FE teachers and students of English and Media Studies in the through in-service training courses and publications www.englishandmedia.co.uk |
| Evertbody Writes
Everybody Writes offers classroom teachers innovative ideas and practical resources to get primary pupils and secondary students excited about writing. |
| Explore Writing Extensive guide, includes script, poetry, journalism, fiction |
| Fabulate
Collaborative Story writing site |
| Federation of Children’s Book Clubs |
| Film Network
BBC Scriptwriting Guide |
| GCSE Poetry Live |
| Get Writing
BBC Writing tips site |
| Greenroom Manchester Arts venue www.greenroomarts.org |
| Groupthing
An online community around words and creativity. You can set up groups, meet new friends and post your own creative work. Good things will happen. |
| Index North West Writers Network www.literaturenorthwest.co.uk/ |
| International Anthony Burgess Foundation
The International Anthony Burgess Foundation encourages and supports public and scholarly interest in all aspects of the life and work of Anthony Burgess. Based in Manchester, England, we have an extensive library, archive and study centre containing Burgess’s books, music and papers. We also have a performance venue where we present new work by writers, artists and musicians. |
| Literature North West www.literaturenorthwest.co.uk |
| Love Reading For online book reviews, books and free opening extracts www.lovereading.co.uk/ |
| Lulu Self publishing www.lulu.com/uk |
| Literature Training a portal to litrerature education www.literaturetraining.com |
| Man Booker Prize Book competition (for adults) www.themanbookerprize.com |
| Manchester Book Awards Manchester Libraries – book competitions www.manchesterbookaward.com/ |
| Manchester Education Wide Area Network www.mewan.net |
| Manchester Literature Festival Annual festival (October) www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk |
| Manchester Writing Competition
Includes the Poetry and Fiction Competitions |
| Manchester Theatres www.manchestertheatres.com |
| Monday Night Group One of the Commonword family of writers’ workshops www.mondaynightgroup.org.uk |
| Mslexia For women who write |
| Murder Squad North West Detective writers group www.murdersquad.co.uk |
| Museums Libraries & Archives www.mla.gov.uk |
| Muslim Writers
Includes Manchester and lancashire groups and offers:
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| National Association for Literature Development
NALD is the professional body for all involved in developing writers, readers and literature audiences. |
| National Association for the Teaching of English NATE is the UK subject teacher association for all aspects of English from pre-school to university. |
| National Association of Writers Groups http://www.nawg.co.uk |
| National Association of Writers in Education NAWE supports the development of creative writing of all genres and in all educational and community settings. www.nawe.co.uk |
| National Literacy Trust
The National Literacy Trust is an independent charity dedicated to building a literate nation |
| North West Playrights
North West Playwrights exists to develop and promote new writing for the theatre in the North West of England |
| New Books Magazine
for readers and reading groups |
| North End Writers
Encouragement of the literary arts and creative writing in all its forms, particularly amongst people resident in North Liverpool who are disadvantaged educationally or by reason of their gender, ethnicity, race, age, disability or social background. |
| One of us Online Creative Writing Workshop www.oneofus.co.uk |
| Panda Arts Performing Arts Nertwork and Development Agency www.panda-arts.org.uk/ |
| Pass on a Poem |
| The Poem
Comtemporary UK+Irish Poetry |
| Poetry Archive Poets read their work www.poetryarchive.org/ |
| People’s Network Online Reading resources www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk |
| Poetry 4 Kids |
| Poetry Book Society www.poetrybooks.co.uk |
| Poetry Business www.poetrybusiness.co.uk |
| Poetry Class Teaching poetry in school |
| Poet in the City
A charity dedicated to raising the profile of poetry, and funding poetry education in schools. |
| Poetry Kit www.poetrykit.org |
| Poetry Live GCSE Poetry Events |
| Poetry Library www.poetrylibrary.org.uk |
| Poetry Society (including education area) www.poetrysociety.org.uk |
| Poetry School www.poetryschool.com |
| Poetry Translation Centre www.poetrytranslation.org/ |
| Poetry Web Online poetry workshopping |
| Poetry Zone www.poetryzone.co.uk/ |
| Poets & Players
Manchester based showcase for talented new writers |
| Portico Library and Gallery, Manchester |
| Pulp Online Fiction site |
| Rainy City Stories
Stories from locations in Manchester |
| Readathon Sponsored reading events www.readathon.org/ |
| Reading Agency UK wide development agency with its roots in the public library sector. www.readingagency.org.uk/ |
| Real Writers Writers site (includes writing competitions) www.real-writers.com |
| The Reader
The Reader Organisation is a charity dedicated to bringing about a Reading Revolution – making it possible for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to enjoy and engage with books on a deep and personal level. |
| Reading Clubs School Reading Club resource www.readingclub.org.uk/ |
| Reading for Life http://www.readingforlife.org.uk/ |
| Reading Groups for Everyone www.Readinggroups.org |
| Reading is Fundamental Reading Is Fundamental is an initiative of the National Literacy Trust that helps children and young people (aged 0 to 19) to realise their potential by motivating them to read. www.rif.org.uk/ |
| Reading Matters
Books for children and teenagers |
| Ready Steady Book Independent book review site www.readysteadybook.com |
| School Library Association |
| Sheer Poetry www.sheerpoetry.co.uk |
| Society of Authors |
| Shelfari
Create a virtual shelf to show off your books, see what your friends are reading and discover new books |
| Society for Storytelling www.sfs.org.uk/ |
| Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators http://britishscbwi.jimdo.com/ |
| Story
the campaign to celebrate the short story. |
| Survivors’ Poetry
Promotes the writing of survivors of mental distress. |
| Teachers TV www.teacherstv.co.uk |
| Time to Read North West Libraries Reader Development Partnership www.time-to-read.co.uk |
| UK Touring National Arts/Poetry Touring organisation www.uktouring.org.uk |
| Vanity Publishing
Guide to DIY publishing |
| Volunteer Reading Help
a national charity that helps children who struggle with their reading to develop a love of reading and learning. |
| We Make Stories
Children’s writing site |
| Windows poetry education in Liverpool www.windowsproject.demon.co.uk |
| Word Play Press Publishers of “Our thoughts are bees : Writers working with Schools” by Mandy Coe and Jean Sprackland, advice on organising exciting projects in schools, setting out a future of writing in education. www.wordplaypress.com |
| World Book Day www.worldbookday.com/ |
| Writelink
helping each other with publishing short stories, poems and articles and … getting them paid for! |
| Writer’s Guild
The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain is the trade union representing writers in TV, radio, theatre, books, poetry, film and video games |
| Writers Services www.writersservices.com |
| Write out loud Encouraging poetry performance writeoutloud.net |
| Write2b
Write2B is a literature consultancy specialising in reader development, creative writing projects, strategy development, and research. |
| Writers Forum
A place to read, publish and comment on both Fiction and Non-Fiction |
| Writers Net
Writing resources, news and discussion for authors / writers, editors, publishers and agents |
| Writers News
Writers magazine. |
| Writers Room
BBC Writers resource |
| Writers2b
An online shop window to attract Readers, and Publishers |
| Writewords
Writers Community site |
| Writing Together Writers in schools project www.booktrust.org.uk/writingtogether |
| Young Poets Group Facebook Group http://www.facebook.com/YoungPoetsNetwork |