Self Publishing - Advice and Help
A-PN (AUTHOR-PUBLISHER NETWORK)
Subs £15 pa for quarterly newsjournal, Write to Publish! Shared marketing and joint distribution arrangements, seminars, workshops, book fairs and promotional events. Also, guidelines & reviews, directories and contacts. Editor, David Bosworth. Publisher, John Dawes.
Address:
Specialist Knowledge Services, Saint Aldhelm, 20 Paul Street, Frome, Somerset BA11 1DX.
www: www.author.co.uk
ARTS COUNCIL OF WALES
Address:
9 Museum Place, Cardiff CF1 3NX.
Tel: 029 20394711
Fax: 029 20221447
FRUSTRATED WRITERS SOCIETY
£15 pa, plus £5 per month. Literary agency which also offers a critique services including critiques, manuscript preparation, guidelines, educational material and a quarterly newsletter. Runs short story competitions (fee: £3; members free).
Address:
D.W.R. Carter, Director, 24 St Michael’s Gate, Peterborough PE1 4YJ.
Tel: 01733 319076
email: newwriters@writings.freeserve.co.uk
www: www.writings.freeserve.co.uk
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WRITER'S GROUPS
£14 pa. Aims to promote 'the study and art of writing in all its aspects'. Publishes a useful monthly newsletter, Link:
news, reviews, competitions etc.
Secretary Brian Lister.
Address:
The Arts Centre, Biddick Lane, Washington, Tyne and Wear NE 38 8AB.
Tel: 0191 416 9751
Fax: 0191 415 7662
REAL WRITERS
£10 registration fee; £15: monthly assignment. Acclaimed correspondence course run by Lynn Patrick, who writes an excellent advice column for The New Writer. Annual short story competition.
Address:
PO Box 170, Chesterfield, Derbyshire S40 1FE.
email: realwrtrs@aol.com
www: www.turtledesign.com/realwriters
SCOTTISH ARTS COUNCIL
Address:
12 Manor Place, Edinburgh EH3 7DD.
Tel: 0131 226 6051
SEAN DORMAN MANUSCRIPT SOCIETY
Aims to help part-time writers in England, Scotland and Wales.
Director: Mary Driver.
Address:
Cherry Trees, Crosemere Road, Cockshutt, Ellesmere, Shropshire SY12 0JP.
Tel: 01938 270293
THE ACADEMI AGENCY
Provides a variety of services for writers and readers: writers on tour scheme, literary festivals, writing groups and so on. Bi-monthly information magazine a470: What’s on in Literary Wales is distributed free through arts centres and other community outlets. Review copies and information are welcome, along with ideas for co-operative activity.
Chief Executive officer: Peter Finch.
Address:
3rd Floor, Mount Stuart House, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff CF1 6DQ.
Tel: 029 20472266
Fax: 029 20492930
email: academi@dial.pipex.com
www: www.academi.org
THE ARTS COUNCIL / AN CHOMHAIRLE EALAION
Address:
70 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
Tel: 00 353 1 6180200
Fax: 00 353 1 6761302
THE ARTS COUNCIL OF GREAT BRITAIN
The Live Literature website is at:
www: www.liveliterature.net
Send info re events etc to:
RGM Events, Live Literature Listings, 2nd Floor, Enterprise House,
15 Whitworth Street West, Manchester M1 5WG.
Tel: 0161 907 0037
Fax: 0161 907 0032
rgmevents@dial.pipex.com
The ACE website has sections for all the RABs at www.arts.org.uk.
Address:
Eastengland Arts, Eden House, 48-49 Bateman Street, Cambridge CB2 1LR.
Tel: 01223 454400
East Midlands Arts
Address:
Mountfields House, Epinal Way, Loughborough, Leics, LE11 0QE.
Tel: 01509 218292
London Arts
Address:
Elme House, 133 Long Acre, London, WC2E 9AF.
Tel: 020 7240 1313
Northern Arts
Address:
Central Square, Forth Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 3PJ.
Tel: 0191 255 8500
North West Arts
Address:
Manchester House, 22 Bridge Street,
Manchester, M3 3AB
Tel: 0161 834 6644
Information Digest published every six weeks -
one of the biggest and most useful newsletters.
Southern Arts
Address:
13 St Clement Street, Winchester,
Hants, SO23 9DQ.
Tel: 01926 855099
South East Arts
Address:
10 Mount Ephraim, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 8AS.
Tel: 01892 515210
South West Arts
Address:
Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter, EX4 3LS. Tel: 01392 218188
West Midlands Arts
Address:
82 Granville Street, Birmingham, B1 2LH.
Tel: 0121 631 3121
Yorkshire Arts
Address:
21 Bond St, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire WF13 1AX. Tel: 01924 45555
ARTS COUNCIL
Address:
14 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 3NQ
Tel: 020 7333 0100
www: www.artscouncil.org.uk
THE ARTS COUNCIL OF NORTHERN IRELAND
Address:
MacNeice House, 77 Malone Road, Belfast BT9 6AQ.
Tel: 028 90385200
Fax: 028 90661715
THE ASSOCIATION OF LITTLE PRESSES (ALP)
Over 30 years old, Britain's largest grouping of small presses and little magazines is run by
practicing small press operators. Annual membership £12.50. Produces twice yearly booklet of @ 30 pages,
PALPI (Poetry And Little Press Information): £5 for 2 issues, post free; sample copy £2.50. This is included in annual membership fee of £12.50, plus quarterly newsletter and a copy of the biennial Catalogue of Little Press Books in Print.
Address:
Co-ordinator: 32 Downside Road, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5HP.
email: asslp@geocities.com
www: www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle
THE FEDERATION OF WORKER WRITERS & COMMUNITY PUBLISHERS
Formed over 21 years ago, to offer people greater access to writing and publishing. Representing over 5000 people, full membership costs £40 (funded organisations), £20 (unfunded). Magazine subs are £4/3 pa, £2 for latest issue; also produces a newsletter. Members have work published in Broadsheet and are also entitled to a free page on the web site and discounts for fees for the annual Festival and for training courses. Individuals may join the Friends of the Fed scheme.
Administrator: Tim Diggles.
Address:
The FWWCP, 67 The Boulevard, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent ST6 6BD.
Tel: 01782 822327
Fax: 01782 822327
email: fwwcp@cwcom.com
www: www.fwwcp.mcmail.com
THE NATIONAL SMALL PRESS CENTRE
Costs £12 to join, subs include six issues pa of News from the Centre, four of Small Press Listings; otherwise £6 pa and £10 pa respectively. Handbook available: ‘The
Definitive Guide to Self-publishing’. Various services: resources, book ordering, advice
Address:
BM BOZO, London WC1N 3XX
THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS
Independent trade union, costs £70 pa for membership (reductions: under 35s or 65+). Associate membership available for those with a full-length work accepted for publication but not yet published, and those who’ve had occasional items broadcast, performed or published. Membership 6000+. Wide range of services, including free quarterly magazine of 100 pages, The Author; available to non-members: £6. See also, The Writers’ Guild.
Address:
84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB.
Tel: 020 7373 6642
email: authorsoc@writers.org.uk
www: www.writers.org.uk
THE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS AND JOURNALISTS
London £25 pa, regional £21; £10 joining fee: variety of services.
Hon. Membership Secretary Joyce Elsden.
Address:
Tamarisk Way, East Preston, West Sussex BN16 2TF.
email: swwriters@aol.com
www: www.author.co.uk
THE WRITERS ADVICE CENTRE FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS
All kinds from picture books to teenage fiction, including poetry. Run by Louise Jordan:
term Subscription Newsletter (£15); Criticism Service; One-to-One Consultancy Service; Home Study Course. Also runs seminars. Successes include Fidler Award winner:
The Memory Prisoner, by Thomas Bloor.
NB: Writers can also contact Jane Baker*,
Managing Editor, Adult (Surrey address).
Addresses:
Palace Wharf, Rainville Road, London W6 9HN.
*6 Bramble Way, Send Marsh, Woking, Surrey GU23 6LL.
Tels: 020 8874 7347/*01483 223860
www: www.writersadvice.co.uk
THE WRITERS' GUILD OF GREAT BRITAIN
Trade union, affiliated to TUC. Services and eligibility for membership similar to The Society of Authors. Produces official magazine The Writers’ Newsletter(6 issues pa). Subs pa: £70 plus 1% of writing income. Candidate Membership for new writers: £35.
General Secretary Alison V. Gray.
Address:
430 Edgeware Road, London W2 1EH.
Tel: 020 7723 8074
Fax: 020 7706 2413
www: www.writers.org.uk/guild
WOMEN WRITERS NETWORK
£40 pa: various services. Newsletter membership: £25 (entry to meetings costs £5). WWN News newsletter available at £1 a copy (10 issues per year), includes news, opportunities, competitions, markets etc.
Extremely useful for networking. Membership Secretary Cathy Smith.
Address:
23 Prospect Road, London NW2 2JU
email: cathy@cathyshouse.u-net.com
www: www.womenwriters.org.uk
SERVICES
BOOK TRUST
Excellent literary source: readings, exhibitions, publications, prizes. Send (6½ x 9) SAE for newsletter and more details.
Address:
The Publicity Officer, Book Trust, Book House, 45 East Hill, London SW18 2QZ.
Tel: 020 8516 2977
Fax: 020 8516 2978
www: www.booktrust.org.uk
FLAIR FOR WORDS
Long-running appraisal service.
Address:
Cass & Janie Jackson, 57 Hillside Road,
Whyteleaf, Surrey CR3 0BR.
Tel: 01883 382986
email: caja@compuserve.com
MIDLAND EXPOSURE
Holds seminars on writing fiction for commercial magazines. Also runs two competitions, deadlines May 5th and November 3rd. The agency was set up in 1996 by two experienced writers, Cari Crook and Lesley Gleeson, and has steadily built up a first class relationship with fiction editors. Please
note: they don't do nostalgia or whimsy, i.e. no memoirs or children's stories. MUST read guidelines first.
Address:
4 Victoria Court, Oadby, Leicester LE2 4AF.
Tel: 0116 271 8332
Fax: 0116 281 2188
email: partners@midlandexposure.co.uk
www: www.midlandexposure.co.uk
