Links

Here are some useful links to other sites dealing with literature, books, reading and writing and more!

4ureaders - http://www.4ureaders.net/ (for 11-16 year-olds).

Achuka - http://www.achuka.co.uk/

Apples & Snakes - http://www.applesandsnakes.org/

Association of Scottish Literary Studies - http://www.asls.org.uk/

Aye Write - http://www.ayewrite.com/

Book Crossing - http://www.bookcrossing.com/

Books from Scotland - http://www.booksfromscotland.com/ (sells all types of Scottish interest books)

Bookstart - http://www.bookstart.co.uk/

Booktrust - www.booktrust.org.uk and http://www.booktrusted.co.uk/ (resources for younger readers, including searchable database of recommended books)

British Council - http://www.britishcouncil.org/

Children's Laureate - http://www.childrenslaureate.org/

Contemporary Writers - http://www.contemporarywriters.com/ (searchable database of up-to-date profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers)

Cool Reads - http://www.cool-reads.co.uk/ (cool-reads reviewed by 10-15 year olds)

Creative Partnerships - http://www.creative-partnerships.com/

Dictionary of the Scots Language - www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/

Edinburgh International Book Festival - http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/

Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature - http://www.cityofliterature.com/

Gaelic Books Council - http://www.gaelicbooks.net/ 

Islands Book Trust - http://www.theislandsbooktrust.com/

Kids and reading - www.kidsandreading.co.uk/ChildrenandReadingCategory.htm

Learning and Teaching Scotland - http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/

Literature Training - http://www.literaturetraining.com/

National Association of Literature Development - http://www.nald.co.uk/

National Literacy Trust  - http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/

One Magazine - http://www.iamone.co.uk (literary and arts publication produced and distributed in Scotland)

Opening the Book - http://www.openingthebook.com/ (ideas, practice, advice and services from the founders of the reader development movement)

Publishing Scotland (formerly Scottishbooks.org and The Scottish Publishers Association) - http://www.publishingscotland.org/

Pushkin Prize - http://www.pushkinprizes.net/

Read Together - http://www.readtogether.co.uk/ (home reading Initiative)

Readathon - http://www.readathon.org/

Scots Language Resource Centre - http://www.scotsyett.com/

Scottish Arts Council - http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/

Scottish Language Dictionaries- http://www.scuilwab.org.uk/

Scottish Poetry Library - http://www.spl.org.uk/

Scottish Storytelling Centre - http://www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk/

Society of Authors - http://www.societyofauthors.net/

Teachers and Writers Collaborative - http://www.twc.org/

Teentitle - http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/teentitles

Textualities - http://www.textualities.net/ (online literary magazine)

The National Association of Writers in Education - http://www.nawe.co.uk/

The Poetry Society - http://www.poetrysoc.com/

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain - http://www.writersguild.org.uk/

Which Book - http://www.whichbook.net/ (help to choose what to read next)

Writers and Artists - http://www.writersandartists.co.uk/ (online guide to the bestselling Yearbook)

Writers Services - http://www.writersservices.com/