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		Our wide range of websites offer a comprehensive guide to reading, UK and Commonwealth writers, literary translation and UK literary festivals as well as information and texts from British Council creative writing projects with teachers and readers notes to accompany our New Writing anthology. You can use our discussion boards and join in with online chats or sign up to our mailing lists.

enCompassculture

Our world-wide online book group where you can select books, read reviews, join in web discussions, chat to our online reader in residence, read news and find out how to set up a reading group.

contemporary writers

Detailed biographical and bibliographical information on over 500 UK and Commonwealth authors. New authors added every month. Search by author, genre, nationality, gender, publisher, title, and prize.

New Writing

A website for readers and teachers. It features selected texts grouped into themed sections. A new section added each month. Featuring poetry, short stories, extracts from published and soon-to-be published novels, and non-fiction pieces.

Animating Literature

A portal to news, information and discussion for readers, writers, teachers, students and literature professionals. Site also gives access to the best UK and international online resources on UK literature.

medi-cafe

The Medi-cafe is an online writing programme for students and writers from Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria who work with UK writers and academics in a unique form of intercultural dialogue that will enrich all partners.

Power In the Voice

This three-year programme is designed to celebrate people finding their voices and expressing themselves. Performance poets, rap artists and storytellers will work with schools and youth groups throughout Southern Africa and the UK.

Literary Translation

In this site we explore the role of the translator and the challenges of translation, as well as the process of traslation. This website also has a discussion board and chat feature.

Radiophonics

Radiophonics continues the work that was established with Crossing Borders, our creative writing mentoring scheme in Africa. It profiles mentors and participants and features their work.

Magic Pencil

Magic Pencil is a children’s book illustrators exhibition website which highlights the exhibit by the same name, which has been touring the world since 2002. The site has workshop materials along with webboards and chats.

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