Links

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

 

Achuka - www.achuka.co.uk

Apples & Snakes - www.applesandsnakes.org

Ask About Writing - www.askaboutwriting.net

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

Aye Write - www.ayewrite.com

Book Crossing - www.bookcrossing.com

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

Bookstart - www.bookstart.co.uk

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

British Council - www.britishcouncil.org

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

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

Creative Partnerships - www.creative-partnerships.com

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

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

Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature - www.cityofliterature.com

Gaelic Books Council - www.gaelicbooks.org 

Islands Book Trust - www.theislandsbooktrust.com

Kids and reading - www.kidsandreading.co.uk

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

Literature Training - www.literaturetraining.com

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

National Literacy Trust  - www.literacytrust.org.uk

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

Opening the Book - 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) - www.publishingscotland.org

Pushkin Prize - www.pushkinprizes.net

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

Readathon - www.readathon.org

Scots Language Resource Centre - www.scotsyett.com

Scottish Arts Council - www.scottisharts.org.uk

Scottish Language Dictionaries- www.scuilwab.org.uk

Scottish Poetry Library - www.spl.org.uk

Scottish Storytelling Centre - www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk

Society of Authors - www.societyofauthors.net

Teachers and Writers Collaborative - www.twc.org

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

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

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

The Poetry Society - www.poetrysoc.com

We Swap Books - www.weswapbooks.com

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

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

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

Writers Services - www.writersservices.com