Writing URL Database
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Last Updated 13 August 2003
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Awards and Grants
Author's Foundation & K Blundell Trust (Email) (WN May 2000)
Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award (Australia) A$30,000 (E-mail)
(WN Aug 99)
Irish
Arts Council (WN Oct 00) [check url - should it be .ie?)
Lilian Ida Smith Biennial
Award (02/02) (New Zealand) (WN Aug01)
TomFitzgibbon Award (NZ, Children's writers) (Email) (WN Aug01)
Training Grants for Small Publishers (Paul Hamlyn Foundation) (E-mail) (WN Jul 99)
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Circles, Clubs, Organisations, Societies:
Arts Council of Northern
Ireland (WN Apr 00)
Association of
Freelance Journalists (WN Jul 99)
Chartered Institute Of Journalists
Creative Writers'
Network, Belfast (WN Feb 01)
Crime Writer's Association of Australia (Email) (WN Aug01)
Freelance Medial Group (WN Dec 99) (E-mail)
Glasgow Easterhouse Writers Group (Email) (WN Dec 02)
Guild of Romance Writers (Email)
Irish Arts Council - Art
Matter e-zine (WN Oct 02)
The Opening Line
(W. Yorkshire)
Literary
Expansions
National Union Of Journalists (WN Oct
02)
Newcastle Proud Words - gay, lesbian
& bisexual writers (WN Dec 02)
New Zealand Romance mailing list: send a blank email (WN
Dec 99)
New Zealand Science Fiction
Writers Group (NW Dec 99)
Open Source Creations -
online screenwriting project (WN Feb 00)
Poetry Society
Romantic Novelists Association (UK)
Scattered Authors Association (published children's authors) email (WN Sep 03)
Screenwriters' Workshop
(WN May 00)
Tasmanian Writers' Circle (E-mail)
(WN Jan 00)
Writers.gb (web based)
Writers' Interact
(Kent)
Writers' Umbrella (West Lothian) (Email) (WN Aug01)
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Competitions:
Regularly: Jaqui Bennett Writers Bureau (E-mail) (WN Jun 99)
Short stories on the
Internet
Savannah Publishing monthy Short
Story and Poetry Competitions
20.9.03: Echoes
Of Gilgamesh Song Writing Competition (WN Sep 03)
30.9.03: Acorn Magazine
Novel Synopsis Competition (WN Sep 03)
5.11.03: Heart Of The West Unpublished Romance
Novel Competition (WN Sep 03)
11.10.03: Poem Of Europe
international competition (WN Sep 03)
30.11.03: Wrekin Writers Annual
Limerick Competition (WN Sep 03)
14.1.04: Northcliffe Online Non-fiction
Competition (WN Sep 03)
31.1.04: (published by) Caine Prize For
African Writing (WN Sep 03)
31.1.04: Scottish Community Drama Association
One-Act Play Writing Competition (WN Sep 03)
Not Stated:
Forthcoming:
Winning Entries on-line
1999 Dragonheart Press Poetry Competition Living Poets
(WN Aug 99)
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Courses (Correspondence)
Academy of Children's Writers (Email)
The Art of Writing Poetry (TheWriters College)
Castle of Dreams
- Writing for Children
Chapterhouse
- proofreading and copy-editing
Focus On Fiction (E-mail) (WM
Aug 99)
Guild of Romance Writers (E-mail)
Institute of Copywriting (E-mail)
London School of Journalism
Maple (E-mail) (WM Aug 99)
National Extension College
Open College of the Arts (E-mail)
(WM Dec 99)
Paxton Sheriff Creative Writing Academy (Email)
The Publishing Training Centre (E-mail) (WM Dec 99)
Regent Academy (E-mail) (WM
Dec 99)
Society of Indexers
Writers Advice Centre
for Children's Books
The Writers Bureau College
(E-mail) (WM Aug 99)
The Writers Bureau College
of Journalism (E-mail)
The
Writing Institute (Technical Writing)
...and on the net:
writing-fiction.com
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Courses: Adult / Further /Higher Education
Nottingham: Investigative Journalism M.A. Nottingham Trent University / Assoc.
of Investigative Journalists (E-mail)
Salford: MA/PG Dip in Television and Radio Scriptwriting (Email)
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Courses (Residential / Day/ Writing Holidays)
UK&Ireland:
Buckingham: Missenden Abbey
Cornwall: E-mail
Coastal Courses
Far West (E-mail) (WM Dec 99)
Fire in the Head (various) (Email)
Indian King Arts Centre
Derbyshire: Bob Wilson Books (Email)
Writers' Summer
School, Swanick
Devon: Arvon Foundation
Fire in the Head (various) (Email)
Dorset: Meerhay Manor
Hartfordshire: Liberato
London: Writers' Advice Centre for
Children's Books (E-mail)
Type Casting (various
dates)
Middlesex: M.A. in Writing (prose fiction) - Middlesex University
(Email) (WN Aug 00)
Norfolk: Fakenham Activity Breaks
Northumberland: Old School House Creative Writing Centre (WN Jul 00)
Scotland Arvon
Foundation (Inverness-shire)
University of Edinburgh
- Creative writing summer schools
Survivors' Poetry Scotland
(WN Mar 00)
East Lothian: Marketing For Writers 5-9-03 &
6-10-03 (WN Sep 03)
Shropshire Chrome Spuds Brain Aerobics
Somerset: Dilliongton House (E-mail)
Suffolk Belstead House,
Ipswich (Regularly) (Email)
Liberato (regularly)
Sussex Postgraduate Diploma
in Creative Writing and Personal Development (Email Dr. Celia Hunt) (WN Aug 00)
Wales: Chrome Spuds Brain Aerobics
Ty Newydd (various,
most weeks)
West Midlands British Society
of Comedy Writers
Yorkshire Arvon Foundation (Hebden Bridge,West Riding)
Continental Europe:
France Calvados
France(SW): Writing
France
Greece: Great Escapes, Corfu (Email)
Literary Translation, Corfu (Email)
(WN Jul01)
The Greek Experience
Skyros
Spain Writesun (Arrietta,
Lanzarotte)
Turkey: Creative Holidays (Email)
Travel One (Email)
Tuscany: Summerhills
Rest of World:
Carribean: Skyros
Canada: Centauri Arts holiday writing
courses/ holidays
Egypt: Creative
Holidays (Email)
India: Essential India
Writers Advice Centre
Kenya: Creative Holidays (Email)
Majorca: The Mills Writing Retreat (E-mail)
New Zealand: Kara School of Writing (E-mail) (WN Nov 99)
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Criticism etc:
Diane G. Paul, MA
Do It Write (Email)
Hilary Johnson
Jacqui Bennett
Writers Bureau
Joy McKellen
John Trenhaile Critiques
Kati Nicholl Editorial (E-mail)
Kids' Corner (children's
authors)
Shirley Allen
ticket2write.com
Wordplay (E-mail)
WORDsmith (Email)
Writers' Advice (children's
authors)
Writers Advice Centre (Email)
Write From The Heart (E-mail)
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Festivals, Meetings and Seminars:
22/9/03: Poem And Pint Evening, Forest
Arts Centre, Hampshire (WN Sep 03)
3-4/10/03 Forest Arts Centre
Word Weekend Hampshire (WN Sep 03)
3-9/10/03 Ilkley
Literature Festival (WN Sep 03)
4/10/03 Southport Writers' Circle email (WN Sep 03)
7-11/10/03 Manchester
Poetry Festival (WN Sep 03)
20/10/03: Poem And Pint Evening,
Forest Arts Centre, Hampshire (WN Sep 03)
21-23/11/03 U.S.A. Cat Writers'
Association Conference, Houston (WN Sep 03)
24/11/03: Poem And Pint Evening,
Forest Arts Centre, Hampshire (WN Sep 03)
July 2004 Frome Festival (WN
Sep 03)
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Information and Research
Official George Bernard Shaw Information Service (E-mail) (WN Sep 99)
Profnet - a service
of PR Newswire (WN Oct 00)
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Internet Publications for Writers
Global Writers' Link - bimonthly
newsletter (WN Nov 99)
Bite Me! Magazine
- humour e-zine supporting comedy writers and poets (WN Oct 99)
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Magazines for Writers
General:
Mslexia
Young Writer (WN Dec 02)
Poetry:
Pulsar Ligden Poetry Society
(E-mail) (WN June 99)
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Markets
- these have expanded to take up a page of their
own
Newsgroups
alt.writing
misc.writing
rec.arts.sf.composition
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Self Publishing
Help and Advice
Author's Self
Publishing Enterprise (WN Aug01)
Eccent Communications (NZ) (E-mail)
(WN Dec 99)
Publishing and Printing
kobold press
Amolibros (Email)
Authorsonline
Author's Self
Publishing Enterprise (WN Aug01)
Bloozoo
Canrig Publishing (N.Z.) (E-mail)
Castle of Dreams
Country Books
Curran Publishing Services
help4u - digital storage
and printing
The Fast-print Network
Gopher
ink.ink (Email)
Parchment Printers (short-run booklets)
Pen Press Publishers
Pipers' Ash print-on-demand (WN Oct
02)
Planetree Publishing (Email) (WN
Feb 01)
Prospero Books
Ridgeway Press
(printers)
Selfpublisher.co.uk
The Short Run Book Company
Sovereign Net Books (Email)
Subject Books (Email)
ticket"write.com
Wm. Culross & Sons
Ltd
The Writing
Institute
Marketing
The Book Guild Ltd
PressGroup (UK) Ltd.
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Software
Freelance Writing
The Treasure Chest CD Way Ahead Publishing
Screenplay
Syd Field's Final Draft The Screenwriter's
Store
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Workshops etc.
22.1.03: Society
of Indexers, London (WN Dec 03)
25.1.03: Character Motivation.
Proud Words / The Voice Squad, Newcastle (WN Dec 02)
8.2.02: Society of
Indexers, Crewe (WN Dec 03)
Regular events:
Newcastle Proudwords - for gay, lesbian
& bisexual writers
Writers Organisations
Media Entertainment
and Arts Alliance (Australia)
Nzwriters
NZ Romance Writers
PEN ( email )
Society of Writers of Wales academi
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Writers' Services (See also: Criticism )
Advice (general): Write Advice (E-mail)
Writers Advice Centre
Photography: E-mail Liz King
Proof-reading,
Copy-Editing, etc. Email Brian Ritchie
Email JCRM Productions
Email Joy McKellen
E-mail Looking Glass
Email Margarita
Email WORDSmith (polish up
your English)
Training
The Publishing
Training Centre
Write Or Wrong On-Line (E-mail)
Word Processing Email Joan Simm
Email Sheila Lowry
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Unclassified websites and addresses
Copyright Licensing Agency, Scotland (E-mail) (WN Jan 00)
WATCH
- Register of Copyright holders
For Writers and Readers
(WN Dec 99)
Meander Press -
"Be a five-minute writer"