Links

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

  

Councils/Public Bodies

Artlink - www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk

Arts Council England - www.artscouncil.org.uk

British Council - www.britishcouncil.org

Gaelic Books Council - www.gaelicbooks.org

Scottish Arts Council - www.scottisharts.org.uk

Scottish Government - www.scotland.gov.uk

 

Literary Organisations

Apples & Snakes - www.applesandsnakes.org (performance poetry)

Association of Scottish Literary Studies - www.asls.org.uk

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

Bookstart - www.bookstart.co.uk

Cultural Enterprise Office - www.culturalenterpriseoffice.co.uk/website/

Disability Arts Online - www.disabilityartsonline.org

Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature - www.cityofliterature.com

Islands Book Trust - www.theislandsbooktrust.com

Literature Training - www.literaturetraining.com

National Association of Literature Development - www.nald.co.uk

National Literacy Trust - www.literacytrust.org.uk

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

Scottish Language Dictionaries- www.scuilwab.org.uk

Scottish Poetry Library - www.spl.org.uk

Scottish Storytelling Centre - www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk

Stirling Literary Society - www.stirlingliterarysociety.org.uk

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

The Poetry Society - www.poetrysoc.com

 

Education/Learning

Enquire: The Scottish Advice Service for Additional Support for Learning - www.enquire.org.uk 

Scottish Universities International Summer School - www.summer-school.hss.ed.ac.uk

 

Festivals

Aos Dana ~ Book Festival - www.feisaneilein.com/index.html

Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival - www.ayewrite.com

Black Isle Words Festival - www.blackislewords.co.uk

Borders Book Festival - www.bordersbookfestival.org

Dundee Literary Festival - www.dundeeliteraryfest.org

Doune & Dunblane Fling Bookfest - www.dunblanefling.com

Edinburgh International Book Festival - www.edbookfest.co.uk

Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair - www.word-power.co.uk

Faclan – Hebridean Book Festival - www.faclan.org

Imprint - East Ayrshire Festival - www.imprintfestival.co.uk

Inverness Book Festival - www.invernessbookfestival.co.uk

Islay Book Festival - www.islaybookfestival.co.uk

Linlithgow Book Festival - www.linlithgowbookfestival.org/

Milngavie Book and Arts Festival - www.milngaviefestival.org.uk

Nairn Book & Arts Festival - www.nairnfestival.co.uk/index.htm

Off the Page - Stirling Book Festival - www.stirling.gov.uk/offthepage

Wordplay - Shetland Book Festival - www.shetlandarts.org

Scottish International Storytelling Festival - www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk

StAnza Poetry Festival -  www.stanzapoetry.org

St Magnus Festival - www.stmagnusfestival.com

Ullapool Book Festival - www.ullapoolbookfestival.co.uk

Westport Book Festival -  http://westportbookfestival.org/

Wigtown - www.wigtownbookfestival.com

Winter Words Festival 2009 - www.pitlochry.org.uk 

Word 09 – University of Aberdeen Writers Festival - www.abdn.ac.uk/word

Wordfinge -  www.wordfringe.co.uk

 

Writers/Publishers

Arvon - www.arvonfoundation.org

Ask About Writing - www.askaboutwriting.net

Association for Scottish Literary Studies - www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS/NewWriting.html

Aye Write - www.ayewrite.com

Completely Novel - www.completelynovel.com

Contemporary Writers - www.contemporarywriters.com (searchable database of up-to-date)

Disability Writes - www.disabilitywrites.org.uk

Graeae Theatre Company -  www.graeae.org/page/writing

House of Lochar Publishers - www.houseoflochar.com 

Love Writing - www.lovewriting.co.uk

Playwrights Studio Scotland - www.playwrightsstudio.co.uk

Read Raw - readrawltd.co.uk (promoting creative writing in Scotland)

Rising Stars: Educational Publisher - www.risingstars-uk.com/

Scottish Association of Writers - www.sawriters.org.uk

Society of Authors - www.societyofauthors.net

Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators - www.scbwiscotland.co.uk

Survivors Poetry - www.survivorspoetry.com 

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

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

Writers' Circles Database - www.writers-circles.com/scotland.html 

Writers Services - www.writersservices.com

 

Children/Young Adults

247 Tales - http://www.bloomsbury.com/sites/copy.aspx?id=1

Achuka - www.achuka.co.uk

Arts Action Fund - http://www.youngscot.org/channels/arts/?ss=484&s=57&sr=79

Everyody Writes - http://www.everybodywrites.org.uk/news/writing-opportunities/

Foyle Young Poets of the Year - http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/competitions/fyp/

Inside a dog - http://www.insideadog.com.au

Kids and reading - www.kidsandreading.co.uk

Kids on the Net -  http://www.kidsonthenet.org.uk/teens/

Moon Town Cafe -  http://www.moontowncafe.com/contest.asp

Nanowrimo - http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/

National Galleries of Scotland - http://www.nationalgalleries.org/education/competition/

Teenage Judges Competition - http://www.booktrustchildrensbooks.org.uk/Home

The Lost Book -  http://thelostbook.net/get-involved/microstory-competition/

Pop Resources -  www.popsresources.com (special needs reading programme

Pushkin Prize - www.pushkinprizes.net

Signed Stories -  http://www.signedstories.com/page/index.cfm

Spinebreakers - http://www.spinebreakers.co.uk/Creative/Pages/creativehome.aspx

Smories - www.smories.com

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

Rifsters -   http://www.rif.org.uk/rifsters/index.htm

Teen Titles - www.edinburgh.gov.uk/learningpublications

The Henrietta Branford Writing Competition -  http://www.branfordboaseaward.org.uk/HBWC/henriettabranfor.html

Words Undone - http://wordsundone.com/

Writers Forum Magazine -  http://www.writers-forum.com/youthcomp.html

Writers Online - http://www.englishonline.co.uk/writers

Worlds Longest Poem - http://www.pottypoets.com/websitelongestpoem.html

Young Writer Magazine - http://www.young-writer.co.uk/

Young Writer Trust - www.youngwritertrust.org

 

Readers/Book Lovers

Book Crossing - www.bookcrossing.com

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

Book Mooch - www.bookmooch.co.uk

Library Thing - www.librarything.com

Love Reading - www.lovereading.co.uk

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

Read it, swap it - www.readitswapit.co.uk

Right to Read Campaign- http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_r2rhome.hcspWe

Swap Books - www.weswapbooks.com

Vulpes Libris - http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/

Which Book - www.whichbook.net (fun way to choose your next read)

 

Publications

Chapman - www.chapman-pub.co.uk

Cutting Teeth - www.cuttingteeth.org

Gutter - www.guttermag.co.uk

Markings - www.markings.org.uk

Mslexia - www.mslexia.co.uk

North Words - www.highlanderweb.co.uk/nortword.htm

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

Textualities - www.textualities.net (online literary magazine)

 

Other

Children's Laureate - www.childrenslaureate.org.uk

Creative Partnerships - www.creative-partnerships.com 

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

Forest Books: Sign Language/Deaf Issues specialist http://www.forestbooks.com/

Homecoming - www.homecomingscotland2009.com

Learning and Teaching Scotland - www.ltscotland.org.uk

Scots Language Resource Centre - www.scotsyett.com

Steve Dearden (Consultant for cultural organisations and writers) - www.stevedearden.com

Teachers and Writers Collaborative - www.twc.org

Tutor Hunt - www.tutorhunt.com (free web-based tutor search)

Parenting Across Scotland - www.parentingacrossscotland.org