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Adventures in Fiction (commercial)
An independent editorial consultancy providing a confidential, one-to-one mentoring service to writers for a fee.
Age Concern Write Your Own Memory Book
Memory books can be a great hobby for anyone interested in writing and family history; top tips for writing your own memory book.
Arvon Foundation
Runs a wide range of residential creative writing courses.
Babash
Publishers listed by genre and alphabetically.
BBC My Story
Short essays from ordinary people with extraordinary true stories.
Set up and write your own blog.
Bookseller
Industry news plus features, author interviews, best-seller charts, events and a book fairs catalogue.
Booktrade
Book trade site including news and directories of agents, publishers, awards and bookshops.
Creative Memories (commercial)
Scrapbooking albums, supplies and consultancy services to get your photographs organised and preserved for a fee.
Small, independent press that publishes poetry, short fiction and autobiographical work by older women.
International Centre for Distance Learning
Courses include creative writing.
Lit-Net
For readers, writers and librarians based in the West Midlands region, with useful online resources.
Literary Consultancy (commercial)
Details of how to send in poems and stories for professional evaluation for a fee.
Literature Training
Supports the professional development of writers and others working within new writing and literature. E-newsletter with jobs, workshops and festivals information.
Mslexia Magazine
Wide-ranging articles for women who write.
If you were to write a letter to yourself as a teenager, what would it say?
That’s the idea behind a fascinating collection called Dear Me: A Letter to my Sixteen Year-Old Self, published to raise money for the Elton John Aids Foundation. In the book, well-known personalities give advice to their younger selves, based on what they know now. The publisher is inviting people to write their own letter giving advice to themselves as a 16-year-old. If you send it to them they’ll post it on their blog for everyone to read.
Open University
Open University distance-learning course information.
The Remembering Site (commercial)
For a fee you can write your autobiography, share family stories and pictures with others and order paperback or hardback copies of your memoirs.
Creative writing put to the public vote: write a poem or short story in response to a monthly prompt and the best entries, as voted by visitors to the site, receive prizes.
Writers & Artists Yearbook Online
Advice, tips, information and competitions to help writers make it into print and advice on how to publish work.
Writer’s News magazine
A guide to the world of writing, with the emphasis on getting into print.
Writers Services (commercial)
Commercial services for unpublished writers, including reader's and editor's reports, and copy editing.
Join the WRVS (Women’s Royal Voluntary Service) campaign to remove outdated stereotypes of old age by sharing your amazing life stories in your community.
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