Monday Night Group

Monday Night Group member Anwen Lewis's own site.

National site for performance poets

The major funder of the arts in England

Artsnet is for people employed in or interested in arts and culture to engage with the wider strategic issues which affect your work, play and quality of life in the City of Manchester

Lottery funding organisation that funds smaller community arts projects

The British Council offer opportunities for writers and other artists to work abroad.

News of services and opportunities available to people working in the arts in Manchester

The Monday Night Group's 'parent' organisation. Commonword works to develop creative writing within various North West communities and also host other writers' groups.

National and international competitions listings. Formerly Competitions Bulletin

A resource for writers and publishers in the Northwest, with lists of authors and publications

National site for performance poets

A radical poetry and arts magazine with a global view which aims to showcase the work of new and emerging talent alongside established writers.

Comma Press is a not-for-profit publishing initiative dedicated to promoting new fiction and poetry, with an emphasis on the short story. It is committed to a spirit of risk-taking and challenging publishing, free of the commercial pressures on mainstream houses.

The world’s first dedicated eccentric newspaper - a magazine in a newspaper format.

A magazine of new poetry, fiction and art.

Agency and manuscript reading services.

Poetry, prose and art for the wise and discerning reader.

The eclectic North West based magazine of poetry, prose, reviews and comment.

The Quiet Feather is a new magazine featuring prose, photos, poetry & cartoons.

Transmission was set up in 2004 to provide an outlet for Manchester’s up-and-coming writers and artist. It has developed to include short fiction and illustration from all over the UK.

A new creative writing magazine featuring original contemporary poetry. Rain Dog is looking particularly for poetry which is exciting, moving, inspiring, honest or any combination of these.

The Ugly Tree is issued 3 times a year & welcomes unsolicited submissions and reviews. They do not discriminate between any forms of poetry and whilst they do have a penchant for the relationship of spoken & performance poetry to the page it is not necessarily their raison d’être.

Carcanet Press is now in its fourth decade. In 2000 it was named the Sunday Times millennium Small Publisher of the Year.

Steve & Dom co-host the utterly fantastic Freed Up poetry night at the greenroom in Manchester every month (usually the 3rd Thursday). It's a theme night that actively encourages new writing from new and established poets. It's relaxed, friendly, informal and there's free cake!

Live art, music and poetry. Visit their MySpace page to sign up to the newsletter.

Performance poetry website.

List of creative writing courses in the North West.

Creative writing MA and PgDip.

Well-regarded creative writing MA.

The lovely people who printed Pipeline for us.

Excellent print shop who produced our postcards.

The people who designed this site.

Commonword supports a number of writers' groups, including the Monday Night Group. Other Commonword groups include Womanswrite, Identity, Survivors and Northern Gay Writers. Visit the Commonword website for more details.

Liverpool based group with regular performance opportunities.

Riverside Writers, who meet in West Kirby, are an enthusiastic and friendly group whose interests incorporate all aspects of creative writing from factual texts on cuisine to literary, historical and popular fiction, poetry, sit-coms and comedy, plays, science-fiction, gothic horror and family sagas.