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Buy Stationery

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An online shop selling brand name stationery and art supplies with big discounts on high street prices

Fantastic Fiction

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United Kingdom
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Online bookshop focusing on category fiction - everything from SF to fantasy, horror to thrillers and crime to romance. With biographies of 15,000 authors and 250,000 books, it's a fantastic resource. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/

Poetry Bookshop Online

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United Kingdom
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Ambitious brand-new online bookselling site, set up by the Poetry Book SocietySpecialist book club founded by T S Eliot in 1953, which aims to offer the best new poetry published in the UK and Ireland. Members buy at 25% discount. The PBS has a handsome new website at  www.poetrybooks.co.uk, which offers 90,000 poetry titles available in the UK and continuously updated news, articles, poetry events, updates and information about poetry. www.poetrybookshoponline.com

Facet Publishing

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United Kingdom
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New name for Library Association Publishing, this offers a range of books for the information technology market, including an annual directory called Libraries and Information Services in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland with 3,000 libraries. www.facetpublishing.co.uk

Abe Books

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Canada
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Extraordinary Canadian site linking network of 10,000 booksellers of rare, secondhand and out-of-print books internationally. English, French and German sites give access to over 40 million titles. Booksellers pay subscription based on number of titles for the online capability of selling their books anywhere in the world. www.abebooks.com

The Good Book Guide

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United Kingdom
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High quality subscription-only UK-based international book service which carries a wide range of recommended and reviewed titles.  www.thegoodbookguide.com

Andrea Semple

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Rather cheeky but entertaining author's site which carries authors' interviews and a tongue-in-cheek list of what those agents' rejection letters really mean. http://www.andreasemple.com

Heartline Books

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United Kingdom
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Crisp and well-presented site from new UK romance publisher which brings a breath of fresh air to romance writing. Information for writers and sales site. www.heartlinebooks.com

Avon Romance

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United Kingdom
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Useful submission guidelines for romance writers on the publisher's corporate site. www.HarperCollins.com

Institute of Copywriting

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United Kingdom
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Crisply presented website for UK commercial organisation which offers a training course and tips about copywriting. http://www.inst.org/copy/

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The BBC National Short Story Award 2022

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Closing date: 
21 March 2022
Entry: 
British nationals and UK residents, aged 18 years or over. No entry fee
Prize: 
Winner £15,000 plus 4 shortlisted authors £600

The BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University (NSSA) and BBC Young Writers' Award with Cambridge University (YWA) opened for submissions at 9am on Thursday 13th January 2022.The BBC National Short Story Award is one of the most prestigious for a single short story, with the winning author receiving £15,000, and four further shortlisted authors £600 each.  Read more

'Don't make it up any more'

24 January 2022

‘There's a whole debate about... whether we're just constrained to write about ourselves.  Read more

'It never occurred to me to write something people want to read.'

— Hanya Yanagihara

10 January 2022 - What's new

January 2022
  • ‘If there is anything I believe to be foundational to the business of writing then it is this: writing is work. To frame it in this way is to acknowledge that good writing doesn't come out, fully formed, at two in the morning; and nor does it require anything extraordinary in the way of genius or education, although of course it's possible to have an aptitude for it, and reading helps.
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