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Words for Life promotes the benefits of literacy at all stages of life, to improve opportunities, health, family happiness and overall enjoyment. We provide advice and tips for parents about supporting babies and children as they develop communication skills, and downloadable resources to capture your child's imagination and help them enjoy words and language. We also recommend books with hooks - great for engaging reluctant readers.
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The National Literacy Trust is an independent charity that transforms lives through literacy by supporting those who struggle with literacy and the people who work with them.
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The Library is a world-class cultural and intellectual resource that serves the needs of today's researchers as well as being the custodian of the nation's written and spoken heritage. Read about what we are doing, as well as our plans for the future.
Literacy and Libraries
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Arts Council England works to get great art to everyone by championing, developing and investing in artistic experiences that enrich people's lives. We support a range of artistic activities from theatre to music, literature to dance, photography to digital art, and carnival to crafts.
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English PEN is the founding centre of International PEN, a membership association with 144 branches in more than one hundred countries, providing an active and supportive community for writers and readers around the world. PEN was founded in 1921 by Amy Dawson Scott (pictured left, centre) in order to promote literature as a means of greater understanding between cultures.
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Founded in 1996, Lapidus is the UK organisation for writing and reading for health and wellbeing and works from the principle that words used creatively can be a powerful tool for health and personal, community and world development
Literacy support
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Founded in 1971 by a group of Los Angeles-based children's writers, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators is a non-profit , 501 (c)3 organization which is one of the largest existing organizations for writers and illustrators. It is the only professional organization specifically for those individuals writing and illustrating for children and young adults in the fields of children's literature, magazines, film, television, and multimedia.
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The SCBWI British Isles region offers members support, information and education at a local level. International membership automatically grants you membership to the British Isles Region or any other region local to you.
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The Society has been serving the interests of professional writers for more than a century. Today it has more than 9,000 members writing in all areas of the profession (from novelists to doctors, textbook writers to ghost writers, broadcasters to academics, illustrators to translators). Whatever your specialisation, you are eligible to join as soon as you have been offered a contract.
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The Writers' Guild of Great Britain supports writers across media including books, film, online, radio, theatre, TV and videogames.
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The Poetry Society was founded in 1909 to promote "a more general recognition and appreciation of poetry". Since then, it has grown into one of Britain's most dynamic arts organisations, representing British poetry both nationally and internationally. Today it has nearly 4000 members worldwide and publishes the leading poetry magazine, Poetry Review.
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The most comprehensive and accessible collection of poetry from 1912 in Britain. It is the major library for modern and contemporary poetry funded by the Arts Council England. The Poetry Library promotes the reading of poetry for people of all ages, cultures and backgrounds in collaboration with Learning and Participation.
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The Poetry School was founded in 1997 by three poets - Mimi Khalvati, Jane Duran and Pascale Petit with the aim of providing structured, high quality teaching programmes for adults to develop their poetry from its beginnings through to advanced level.
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Books for Keeps is the UK's leading, independent children's book magazine. It was launched in 1980 and ever since has been reviewing hundreds of new children's books each year and publishing articles on every aspect of writing for children. There are over 12,500 reviews on our new website and more than 2,000 articles including interviews with the top children's authors and illustrators.
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Carousel is the only printed magazine about children's books for parents/carers and professionals - in fact, everyone who is interested in children's literature.
