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Catherine McInerney, Manager of LiteratureNI
YeWhat.biz literary news and events in Northern Ireland.
Arts Talk Malachi O'Doherty's reflections on and photos of writers.
The Blue Cabin and Still on The Sound blogs about life and books on an uninhabited island on Strangford Lough in Co. Down
Henderson Mullin, Chief Executive, Writing East Midlands
Alt.Fiction sci-fi, fantasy and horror.
Unbound blogzine more on the genre.
Litopia a great gateway to the blogs of up and coming writers from all over.
Culture Wars and Harry's Place for opinion.
Index on Censorship is indispensable for the things that really matter.
Mai Lin Li, NALD Board members and Clore Fellow
Michael Kaiser's insights Huffington Post.
This American Life free weekly podcasts for this award-winning public radio show.
WN (Bill) Herbert's blistering blog entry entitled "contempt and contemporary poetry" (22nd September)
Claire Wingfied, Edinburgh-based Literary Consultant
Our sweet old etcetera a peek behind the scenes at the Scottish Poetry Library.
House of Ravens, the blog for Two Ravens Press
Scottish Book Trust for a variety of literary loveliness.
Publishing Talk is good on social media and the future of the publishing industry.
and for a chuckle unnecessary quotation marks.
Peggy Riley, Director of East Kent Live Lit
The Wish Jar, writer Keri Smith's fantastic blog about creativity, random connections and inspiration.
Curious Pages, "recommended inappropriate books for kids".
Dreaming Methods for digital litalso keep a close eye on if:book
and The Southbank Centre's Literature blog.
Ministry of Food blog and the World War Zoo Garden project at Newquay Zoo: to help me keep my writer's head in World War II.
Canongate Books for reading.
Maud Newton for American writing.
Krista Tippett's spirituality blog reminds me that while life seems all about all of the above, it's also important to just be.
I blog about my writing process and work and about literature development for East Kent Live Lit.
Steve Dearden, NALD
Thinking Practice Mark Robinson's provocative takes on the cultural world
Spike from the Australian lit mag Meanjin
Grain Edit beautiful design
Ruth Heritage, New Continental
Manchizzle the pick of Manchester Culture
Rainy City Stories a writers' map of Manchester
Emma Hewitt, Spread the Word
Our Man Inside alt documentary
Bernadine Evaristo writer's blog
Eileen Pun, NALD Ambassador
George Szirtes writer's blog
The Art of Fiction ongoing discourse on the creative process
Curiosa Casualidad curiosities from the mind of a wandering journalist
Purveyor of Style what to wear
Lucy Macnab, Ministry of Stories
Lemn Sissay writer's blog
TED the repository of keynotes
Wish Jar writer and guerilla Keri Smith
Cake Wrecks exactly what it says on the cake tin
Claire Malcolm New Writing North
Charlie Leadbetter commentator's blog
Neil Gaiman writer's blog
James Bridle of booktwo.org
Teleread for coverage of electronic publishing and reading
Adam Greenfield's Speedbird and Future Perfect explore the recently possible.
BLDGBLOG and City of Sound good places to start to explore design thinking.
Book Ride and The Cataloguer's Desk for antiquarian coverage, discovery and exploration.
Jenny Harris, Director of Morely Literature Festival
Emily Benet's blog gives an insight into life as an emerging writer.
Hand and Star for new writing, news and reviews, edited by poet and publisher Tom Chivers.
Allan Jenkins' allotment blog for the Guardian rarely to off the laptop and onto the soil.
Wes Brown, NALD's Information Manager and author of Notes from the Underground
If:book for updates on the Institute of the Future of the Book.
The Workroom, where Writing Squad tutor Danny Broderick blogs on a variety of arts and culture topics.
Note Bene and The Elegant Variation for literary criticism.
Daneet Steffens, of The Short Story
Enjoys writers who blog about living, traveling and working, as well as writing.
Aussie YA author Justine Larbalestier's blog
US writer Jami Attenberg's amusing outpourings.
Emily Benet's Shop Girl Diaries
Sophie F Baker making her way through NaPoWriMo.
Kate Griffin, freelance specialist in international literature and translation.
Booktrust's Translated Fiction,
Eurozine, the network of European cultural journals
Rebecca Carter's International Writing blog.
US-based blogs - Chad Post's Three Percent and Michael Orthofer's extensive round up of literary news from around the world, the Literary Saloon.
A favourite online magazine, Words Without Borders
Sarah Ellis Apples and Snakes Programme Manager and NALD Board member
Karen McCarthy’s Open Notebooks for Spread the Word - a collaborative site that explores what happens when you share notebooks.
Helen Mort’s Pint For A Ghost sharing thoughts and ideas for the show she’s creating, involving the audience in her process.
Miriam Nash's r site. which shares her work.
Andrew Wilson Fish Are People Too on making work especially with poetry and mobile phone technology
Lost at E Minor to see what is going on in lots of different art forms and aspects of culture.
The Literary Platform run by Sophie Rochester, space for literature, ideas in sharing new projects coming through.
Peter Finch Academi
Peter Finch Poet Peter's blog
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