Venues

• The Mac Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham B12 9QH - increasing its literature programme
• The Drum 144 Potters Lane, Aston, Birmingham B6 4UU - a national centre for Black British Art Culture
• www.cabaret.free-online.co.uk People's Cabaret every month Hare and Hounds Kings Heath High Street, Birmingham. Songs, Storytelling ......"Come to the Cabaret" (010701)

Reading

• Read On - National Reading Campaign
• Branching Out    - creative reading, and reader development - stuck for a new book to read? Try their Forager - your pc'll need Java, mind
• The Reading Room excellent for reading and events in West Yorkshire particularly, run by West Yorkshire Arts Marketing, and a West Riding equivalent to Lit-Net (010101)
• www.literature-awards.com excellent site for finding out who won what for writing what when - Smarties to Nobels and everything else inbetween. Also book reviews and ....(010101)
• Artsonline Artsreader - excellent readers comments about new books - worth a dekko if you're up for something different
• www.penguin.co.uk - just launched readers' site, full of Penguin stuff, easy to access, worth a look (250301) especially the readers' section (140501)
• www.geocities.com/cultfictionuk - cracking site for those who want something different to read, and an antidote to Branching Out's Forager and other radio panel games (010701)
• www.geocities.com/readinglinks for libraries, reading groups, and links to the universe, on site based in Staffordshire Libraries inspired by their Literature Development Officer Tom Flemon (070701)

Writing

• The Arvon Foundation - residential creative writing courses
• TrAce  - creative writing & online community: longrunning and good
• Wordhoard   - creative writing, focus on poetry
• OpeningLine - creative writing, focus on writer development
• Sublime Words - The TTP Press Writing Centre
• Alien Flower   - online poetry workshop
• www.thenewwriter.com/prizes.htm the site of The New Writer Magazine, excellent if you are a writer, new, old or otherwise: particularly recommend for advice, news and finding out about that competition you can't remember the details of...(140801)
• The Pleasure Dome - really friendly online writing community
• Quality Women Fiction & Cadenza Magazine - really helpful and writer orientated operation based in Rugby
• www.author.co.uk simple and effective site for writers, especially good for tips about polishing, submitting and coming to terms with rejection!
• www.writelink.co.uk another straightforward site for writers, especially good for those starting up as well as the more experienced (250801)
• www.ABCtales.com simple and accessible site to post your ownwork - opened 12 December 2000 now (June 2001) up to 5000 entries, with peer reviews and help too!
• Swan Playwrightsif you want to write for stage and learn with others (140201)
• Worcester Writers Circle if you want to write, not necessarily for stage but still learn with others (140201)
• Burton Writers www.geocities.com/bpws2001 - just relaunched, worth visiting if you're writer living in East Staffordshire (070501)
• http://communities.msn.co.uk/pseudonymwriterssite - new fresh friendly site for new fresh writers. Tricky to get into, like all microsoft community network sites - blame Bill Gates, neither new, fresh or particularly friendly. (230801)

Writers

• Roi Kwabena - Poet, Drummer & Writer
• Jeff D. Hibbard - Poet, Writer, Photographer, Artist
• Michael Taylor - Dudley novelist published by Peacock Press
• IRELingus - Poetry sites of Birmingham based-poet Brian Dodds'IRELingus'
• Ketaki Kushari Dyson - richly experienced bilingual Bengali & English writer
• www.btinternet.com/~haniver/ - interested in hypetext fiction, check out The Jenny Hanniver ~ work in progress by Kay Fletcher due to a Creative Ambitions Award from West Midlands Arts last December (230401)
• www.writingforwales.co.uk - Tamworth writer Geoff Jones makes the Mercian/Celtic connection, well worth a look if you've any lyricism in your bones (010701)

Without Wrinkles - children & youth

• Young Elequent Authors' Haven 
• The Children's Writing Resource
• Young Authors Magazine
• Too Cool for Grown Ups Magazine
• The Young Writer's Clubhouse 
• CyberRead - cracking reviews of cracking fiction by Solihull teenagers. Add your own too!
• Stories from the Web - cracking site for children and young teenagers - wherever you are
• www.birmingham2.com Birmingham Squared, photographs, poems, stories and art from teenagers in Birmingham, West Midlands and Birmingham, Alabama (140901)

Libraries

• Birmingham Libraries -now much quicker but graphics can still be slow to load (090201)
• The Libraries Partnership - West Midlands - good gateway for west midlands libraries
  click http://www.wm-libraries.org.uk/library.htm for direct access to individual local authority library web sites (180100)
• National Library for the Blind - where Charles Bennett is on-line poet in residence (080701)
• Earl the consortium of public library networking
• Literary Heritage - West Midlands a century or more of regional writing from Jerome K Jerome to Jim Crace
• National Library for the Blind Young Readers Website
• San Antonio Public Libraries (USA) Fiction Web Site
• Stoke Public Libraries - award winning libraries site - well worth a look even if you're not from around Stoke (180101)
• Worcestershire Libraries and Information Service - good for opening times etc of libraries, still to list their excellent First Word Series of red hot literature events - see lit-net events (010101)
• The Poetry Library

Publishers

• Bloodaxe Classic Contemporary British Poetry Publisher - partner in Poetry Book of The Month
• Carcanet
• Faber and Faber renowned literary publisher - partner in Poetry Book of The Month
• HarperCollins
• Harvill Press
• Honno - Welsh Women's Press established 1986. Short and strong list.
• Oxford University Press
• Penguin Books
• Picador increasingly sharp identity and poetry list - partner in Poetry Book of The Month
• Serpent's Tail
• Tindal Street Press – quality West Midlands Fiction: click for preview chapters of Scapegrace, Jackie Gay; Pig Bin, Michael Richardson; A Lone Walk, Gul Y Davis; Surviving Sting, Paul McDonald and many more - site now revised, and a cracker (150901)
• Raw Edge Magazine contributions now only offline - deadline for Issue #12 1st March 2001
• www.raggedraven.co.uk Ragged Raven Press - based in Warwickshire, new, sharp and worth a look (250801)
• Lexikon Magazine now fully online, by subscription & newsletter
• Young Authors Magazine
• Too Cool for Grown Ups Magazine

Booksellers

• Password Books
• Waterstones good set of events running out of their Birmingham shops (090201)
• Amazon
• The Book Pl@ce

Last modified: September 21, 2001

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