Websites for Writers

Whether you’re looking for advice, ideas, online tools or writers’ communities, you’ll find plenty of links to useful websites on this page.

Writing communities & info

Agent Research

Apples and Snakes

Art and Writing

ArtScape

Ask About Writing

Author Zone

Authors’ Register

BBC writersroom

Contact an Author

Children’s Discovery

E-Writers

Expert Sources

Freelancers in the UK

Front List

Get Writing

HackWriters

Literature North East

National Year of Reading

New Writing South

SunOasis

You Write On

Vanity Publishing

Worthy of Publishing

Writernet

Writers Net

Writelink

Fact finding online

Ananova

Ask Oxford

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations

Bibliomania

British Library

CIA World Factbook

Crossref

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Free Pint

Internet Public Library

Response Source

Roget’s Thesaurus

WATCH – Writers, Artists and their Copyright Holders

WISDOM: Knowledge & Literature Search

New media writing prizes

Eppie Awards for E-books

Java Museum Online Awards

Nesta Awards for Art and Science

Texts online

Bible Gateway

Electronic Text Center

The English Server

Etext Archives

Oxford Text Archive

Project Gutenberg

Shakespeare Resources