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
