Magazines and Journals
Aesthetica
Aesthetica engages with contemporary art, contextualising it within the larger cultural framework. Founded in 2002, Aesthetica Magazine is one of Britain's leading art publications.
Ambit magazine
Ambit is a quarterly, 96-page magazine that prints original poetry, short fiction, art and reviews.
Banipal
Banipal is an independent literary magazine publishing contemporary authors and poets from all over the Arab world in English translation.
Kudos
An on-line magazine which mainly lists current competitions both in the UK and internationally. Also lists events and reviews.
Moving Worlds
Moving Worlds is a biannual magazine for creative work as well as criticism, literary as well as visual texts, writing in scholarly as well as more personal modes, in English and translations into English.
New Writer
The New Writer magazine is an online publication for writers, both new and experienced, wanting to explore new ideas and techniques and offers practical and entertaining advice.
Riptide
A bi-annual anthology of new short fiction by both established and emerging writers.
Third Text
An international scholarly journal dedicated to providing critical perspectives on art and visual culture.
Untitled Books
A literary website and online magazine that champions the best writing out there. Each monthly edition publishes articles interviews and new short fiction from established and emerging talents.
Postcolonial studies
AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures at UCL and SOAS
An archive of the centre's past activities as a locus for comparative research on the literatures of Asia and Africa.
EACLALS (European Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies)
EACLAS promotes Commonwealth and post-colonial studies in Europe, as well as international exchanges between academics, students and writers from the anglophone post-colonial world.
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
A specialist peer-reviewed journal focusing on postcolonial research, theory and politics.
IPCS (Institute of Postcolonial Studies)
An independent organisation located in Melbourne, Australia, committed to advancing the recognition of cultural difference, and encouraging mutual engagement and reconciliation.
Postcolonial Forum
The Postcolonial Forum is published by the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kent. It includes articles and reviews that focus on colonial, postcolonial and neo-colonial discourse.
Postcolonial Studies
Postcolonial Studies is the journal of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne. It specifically explores the various facets—textual, figural, spatial, historical, political and economic—of the colonial encounter, and the ways in which this encounter shaped the West and non-West alike.
The Open University, Postcolonial Literatures Research Group
An active community of scholars engaged in a wide range of different activities. The main research focus of the group is on postcolonial literatures, broadly conceived to include the range and variety of literary works representing colonial and neo-colonial experience.
Organisations
Arts Council of England
Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts in England, distributing public money from Government and the National Lottery.
British Council
A searchable database containing up-to-date profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers.
www.black-history-month.co.uk
Celebrating and highlighting Caribbean and African activities, with profiles, articles and news plus an Amazon Media store with a range of DVDs, Videos, Books and Posters.
Department of New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
Based at the Institute of English and American Studies (IEAS), Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, the work of the department is geared towards creating theoretical, methodological and pedagogical foundations for a comparative perspective on the New Literatures in English based on an awareness of cultural complexity on a global scale.
National Association of Writers in Education
The NAWE supports the development of creative writing of all genres and all educational and community settings throughout the UK.
Poetry Society
Set up by T S Eliot and friends in 1953 ‘to propagate the art of poetry’, the Poetry Book Society is a unique poetry society, providing information, reviews and discounts on the best contemporary poetry for an international community of readers
Salidaa – South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive
SALIDAA’s vision is to ensure that the artistic, literary and historical contribution of the South Asian Diaspora becomes a visible part of the national heritage of Britain, supports lifelong learning, informs and inspires the creativity of all communities.
Siyahi
A literary consultancy, which organises events and also links together various aesthetic and
artistic fields such as dance, cinema, music and textiles.
Writers
Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine was awarded an MBE in the Queens Birthday Honours List, 2009. Her novel Blonde Roots was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2009 and was the winner of the Orange Prize Youth Panel.
Laura Hird
Online magazine of short stories, poetry and online forum for writers
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson became only the second living poet and the first black poet to have his work included in Penguin’s Modern Classics series. Johnson’s first album, Dread Beat An Blood was released in 1978, and he has released 14 more albums, including LKJ Live in Paris in 2004, a CD and DVD celebrating his 25th anniversary as a reggae recording artist.
Caryl Phillips
Caryl Phillips’ novels include The Final Passage (1985), which won the Malcolm X Prize for Literature, Cambridge (1991), which won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and Crossing the River (1993) which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. He is currently Professor of English at Yale University.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi
Adichie's first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), received general acclaim and her second novel, entitled Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) rapidly became one of the UK's best-selling works of fiction and subsequently earned several prestigious literary awards, among which the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007).
Chika Unigwe
Chika Unigwe is an Afro-Belgian writer of Nigerian origin. She is the author of fiction, poetry, articles and educational material. Her second novel, On Black Sisters' Street, was published in Dutch in 2008 (as Fata Morgana) and in English in 2009.
Marina Warner
Marina Warner is a prize-winning writer of fiction, criticism and history; her works include novels and short stories as well as studies of female myths and symbols.
Resources for writers
Abctales.com
Story and poetry site where writers can explore and develop creative writing skills, get support from the site’s editors, publish short stories and poems online, get feedback and writing tips and meet fellow writers, all for free.
Apples & Snakes
England's leading organisation for performance poetry. Apples & Snakes focuses on working with emerging artists, producing new work and putting poets in education.
Australian Writer's Marketplace
Published by Queensland Writers Centre, AWMonline is recognised as the 'Yellow Pages' for professional writers seeking publication opportunities for their work.
Book Trust
Booktrust is an independent charity dedicated to encouraging people of all ages and cultures to engage with books and the written word.
Dreaming Methods
Dreaming Methods is a fusion of writing and atmospheric new media that explores digital storytelling, imaginary memories and dream-inspired states.
Fish Publishing
An independent publishing company based in the West of Ireland which has been running writing contests since 1994.
Inc Writers
An internet based literature hub where promoters, publishers, poets, writers, agents and readers post information to forums concerning writing and publishing.
internetfiction.co.uk
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Literature training
Information all in one place for writers and those involved in creating or supporting new writing and literature in the UK.
London Writers' Cafe
London Writers’ Café is a community of creative writers who share, read and discuss their writing projects for constructive feedback. Meetings take place on the second Thursday and third Monday, from 7-9:30pm, each month. It’s free to join the site and meetings are just £2 each.
Real Writing
Writer and tutor Jemma Kennedy offers a series of new courses in fiction and playwriting for writers of all levels and abilities. Taking a practical approach with writing exercises, feedback on work in progress and the chance to share material with other students, her weekly workshops are designed to give you a toolbox of writing skills, help you achieve direction in your creative work and turn your ideas into real writing.
Spread the Word
Spread the Word works with London writers at all stages of their careers to help them achieve their full potential.
YouWriteOn.com
A website sponsored by the Arts Council to help new writers develop and to help talented writers to get noticed and published.
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