Links

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

Early Years Children & Young Adults Writers Specialist
Publishers
Teachers & Learning
Professionals
Book Lovers Councils/Public Bodies
Literary Organisations Literary
Publications
Book Festivals
Writing
& Disability
Reading & Disability Other useful websites

 

Early Years

Big Eyed Owl

Bookstart

Earlyarts

Family Storytime (Scottish Youth Theatre)

Home-Start

Kids and Reading 

Ladybird Live

Mantra Lingua - bilingual books

NLT Talk to your Baby

PEEP - Early Learning intervention

Play Talk Read

Read Together

Songs for early years (LTS)

Smories - video stories

Starcatchers

StartRight

Zero to Three

 

Children and Young Adults

Books sites

Achuka 

BookTrust Children's Books

Children's Laureate

Inside A Dog

Spinebreakers

Writing sites

Kids on the Net

Nanowrimo 

Young Writer Trust

List of writing competitions for young writers

  

Writers

Arvon - Creative Writing Courses 

Ask About Writing  

Association for Scottish Literary Studies - New Writing Scotland

Completely Novel 

The Fine Line - Editorial Consultancy  

Love Writing

Playwrights Studio Scotland

Read Raw - promoting creative writing in Scotland

Scottish Association of Writers

Society of Authors

Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators

Survivors Poetry 

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain

Writers and Artists - online guide to the bestselling Yearbook

Writers Services

Writers Online

 

Specialist Publishers

House of Lochar Publishers

Rising Stars: Educational Publisher

 

Teachers and Learning Professionals

Creative Partnerships 

Edinburgh Council Learning Publications

Learning and Teaching Scotland

Teachers and Writers Collaborative 

Enquire: The Scottish Advice Service for Additional Support for Learning 

 

Book Lovers

Book Crossing 

Books from Scotland

Book Mooch 

Good Reads

Library Thing

Love Reading

Read it, swap it

Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards

Vulpes Libris

Which Book - book selector

List of links to current Book Awards

 

Councils/Public Bodies

Artlink

Arts Council England

British Council 

Creative Scotland

Gaelic Books Council

Scottish Government

 

Literary Organisations

Apples & Snakes

Association of Scottish Literary Studies

Booktrust 

Cultural Enterprise Office

Dictionary of the Scots Language 

Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature

Islands Book Trust 

National Association of Literature Development

The National Association of Writers in Education

National Literacy Trust

The Poetry Society

Publishing Scotland

Scots Language Resource Centre

Scottish Language Dictionaries 

Scottish Poetry Library

Scottish Storytelling Centre

Stirling Literary Society

 

Literary Publications

Chapman

Gutter

Markings

Mslexia 

One Magazine

Textualities

 

Book Festivals

Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival

Black Isle Words Festival

Borders Book Festival

Boswell Book Festival

Dundee Literary Festival

Doune & Dunblane Fling Bookfest

Edinburgh International Book Festival

Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair

Faclan – Hebridean Book Festival

Imprint - East Ayrshire Festival

Inverness Book Festival

Islay Book Festival

Linlithgow Book Festival

Milngavie Book and Arts Festival

Nairn Book & Arts Festival

New Words, Aberdeen

Off the Page - Stirling Book Festival

Wordplay - Shetland Book Festival

StAnza Poetry Festival

St Magnus Festival, Orkney

Ullapool Book Festival

Westport Book Festival

Wigtown Book Festival 

Word – University of Aberdeen Writers Festival

 

Writing and Disability

Disability Arts Online

Disability Writes 

Graeae Theatre Company

 

Reading and Disability

Bookmark: Children's Books and Disability

Disability Books

Forest Books: Sign Language/Deaf Issues specialist 

Pops Resources: special needs literacy

RNIB - reading with visually impaired children

Signed Stories 

Living Paintings

 

Other useful websites

Arts Action Fund

Contemporary Writers - searchable database of writers

Opening the Book - library designs and furniture

Ouch! - BBC Disability website

Parenting Across Scotland

Steve Dearden: Consultant for cultural organisations and writers

Tutor Hunt: free web-based tutor search

The World's Longest Poem Attempt