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Editorial Services, Writing Advice and Online Communities , Writers' Societies,

Editorial Services

Authors' World
www.authors-world.com
Technical advice

Hilary Johnson Authors' Advisory Service
www.hilaryjohnson.demon.co.uk
Advisory service for authors.

Jacqui Bennett Writers' Bureau
www.jbwb.co.uk
Free critique, hall of fame, competitions

Kids Corner
www.cornerstones.co.uk
Advisory and editorial for childrens' writers

NJF Associates
www.nickfletcher.co.uk
Insider advice and appraisal service

Soho Theatre
www.sohotheatre.com/writers/
Script reading service

Writing Fiction
www.writing-fiction.com
Advisory service by an editor

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Writing Advice and Online Communities

Birmingham Words
www.birminghamwords.co.uk/
An online community for creative reading and creative writing. They also publish Birmingham Words Magazine.

Commnet
ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
Everything you ever wanted to know about grammar, punctuation, structuring and editing your writing. It is aimed at students but relevant to all writers. It also contains interactive quizzes.

Dictionary
dictionary.reference.com/
This is an online dictionary and thesaurus. Other sections include a translator, a written style guide and a games and puzzles section.

Guardian Styleguide
www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide
The Guardian’s useful style guide to confusing words and their spellings. It can be downloaded.

Ideas4writers
http://www.ideas4writers.co.uk/
Useful advice on all types of writing with daily ideas to get you started

LIT MAG CENTRAL
www.laurahird.com/litmagcentral.html
Lists many internet literary magazine sites, many of whom run competitions

Lit-Net
www.lit-net.org//index.php?screen=home
A 'virtual literature centre for the West Midlands and beyond' offering advice on writng as well as events listings

The Script Factory
www.scriptfactory.com
Performed readings, events and training

UK Directory of writers' circles
www.writers-circles.com
Online directory

Umbrella Books
www.umbrellabooks.com
A forum for unplublished writers

Wordsmyth
www.wordsmyth.net
Type in the word you are looking for and it will define it. If you are not sure of the spelling, it will bring up a list of possibilities.

Writer's Mind
www.thewritersmind.com
On-line community

Writernet
www.writernet.co.uk/index.phtml
Advice for dramatic writers

WritersServices
www.writersservices.com/index.htm
A huge site full of useful information for writers including features on getting started, through to publishing your own book

WSU
www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html
This contains an extensive list of commonly confused words, their meanings and spellings.

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Writers' Societies

The British Fantasy Society
www.britishfantasysociety.org.uk/community/links.htm
Promotes the genres of fantasy, science fiction and horror in all its forms

British Society of Comedy Writers (BSCW)
www.bscw.co.uk/
A professional organisation that aims to develop good practice among comedy writers

The British Shakespeare Association
http://www.britishshakespeare.ws/
New British based Shakespeare Association

Horror Writers Association
http://www.horror.org/
International association for authors of horror and fantasy

The Poetry Society
www.poetrysociety.org.uk/
The Poetry Society exists to help the promotion of poets and poetry

Society of Authors
www.societyofauthors.net/
Offers advice for writers relating to the business of writing 'to protect the rights and further the interests of authors

'Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
www.wordpool.co.uk/scbwi/
SCBWI is dedicated to serving people who write, illustrate, or share an interest in children's literature

Society of Women Writers andJournalists
http://www.swwj.co.uk/Home2.html
Offers a critiquing service for members as well as regular meetings and workshops

The Writer's Guild
cgi.writersguild.force9.co.uk/FAQ/index.php?ArtID=102
The Writers' Guild is a trade union for writers working in television, radio, film, theatre, books and multimedia.

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