64 Million Artists
64 Million Artists is a national campaign to unlock the potential of everyone in the UK through creativity. We use a simple, fun and free process: Do, Think and Share to support people who’d like to use creativity to express themselves, get a bit more of a spring in their step, or connect better with others.
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a-n (The Artists Information Company)
a-n stimulates and supports contemporary visual arts practice and affirms artists’ value in society. With over 20,000 members, they focus on conversations around the critical and professional environment for the visual arts, bringing together artists, art students, producers, arts professionals, researchers, arts organisations and universities.
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Abidemi TV
Offers help and advice on the craft and business of writing, from writing books to launching your freelance writing career/business.
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ActionSpace
ActionSpace supports the development of artists with learning disabilities and creates innovative projects for people with learning disabilities to engage with the visual arts.
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And Other Stories Publishing CIC
And Other Stories is a grassroots social enterprise that works with writers and translators to handpick the best international books for its subscribers.
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APPG Inquiry in Arts, Health and Wellbeing
The National Alliance for Arts, Health & Wellbeing are a voice and resource for arts and health activity. Here you will find resources to support your own work, and examples of the ways that creative activity can benefit the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
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Apples & Snakes
Apples and Snakes is England’s leading organisation for performance poetry and spoken word, with a national reputation for producing exciting, engaging and transformative work in performance and participation.
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Artists’ Benevolent Fund
Our grants programme sets out to help artists in England and Wales to launch, sustain or develop their careers. We take a broad view of artistic practice and aim to support work which is innovative and challenging as well as high quality work in traditional media.
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Artquest
Artquest encourages critical engagement and provides practical support to visual artists throughout their careers.
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Arts & Creative Industries Commission
The Arts & Creative Industries Commission is an independent partnership supporting arts, creative industries and the cultural sector in Brighton & Hove.
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Arts Council
The Arts Council champion, develop and invest in artistic and cultural experiences that enrich people’s lives.
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Arts Development UK
Arts Development UK is a professional association for those working in the creative industries sector in England and Wales.
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Arts Jobs & Arts News
Arts Jobs & Arts News lists adverts for a range of job opportunities within the art and culture sector. You can search or submit jobs, or use Arts News to announce arts-related events, news and call-outs for exhibitions.
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Arts Marketing Association (AMA)
The AMA is a membership organisation dedicated to helping you connect arts and culture and the public.
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Arts Professional
The UK’s arts management journal for industry professionals, covering theatre, visual art, dance & classical music.
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Artsadmin
Artsadmin is a unique producing and presenting organisation for contemporary artists working in theatre, dance, live art, visual arts and mixed media.
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ArtsHub
ArtsHub is your definitive source for arts jobs, industry news, reviews and data.
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Aspex Gallery
Portsmouth’s leading contemporary art gallery, located in the prestigious Gunwharf Quays. Supporting emerging artists and makers for over 35 years.
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Avron
Since 1968, Arvon has been offering people time and space to write, with an annual programme of residential courses and retreats at three rural writing houses.
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Be Smart About Art
List event for those wanting to make a career out of being an artist.
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Bethlem Gallery
The Bethlem Gallery is an art gallery in Beckenham, Bromley, England. It was established in 1997 to support and exhibit artists who are current or former patients of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
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Blue Monkey Network
Blue Monkey Network is an artist network run by artists for artists, in partnership with Towner Art Gallery.
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BrainPickings
Covering everything from philosophy to politics – with occasional great articles about famous writers or books.
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Brighton and Hove Camera Club
A photographic society club whose aim is to help photographers improve their image-making, both in terms of art and technique.
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Brighton Digital Festival
Brighton Digital Festival is a celebration of digital culture that takes place across Brighton and Hove every September.
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Brighton Photo Fringe
Brighton Photo Fringe 2016 is a free city-wide open-access festival of new photography, with a packed programme of exhibitions, talks, screenings, workshops, tours and parties.
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BuzzFeedBooks
This can be a good source for writing resources, and you can sometimes find useful lists around books and writing.
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Carousel
Carousel helps learning disabled artists develop and manage their creative lives, true to their voice and vision, challenging expectations of what great art is and who can create it.
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Comma Press
Comma’s Mission is to put the short story at the heart of contemporary narrative culture. Through innovative commissions, collaborations and digital initiatives, they explore the power of the short story to transcend cultural and disciplinary boundaries, and to enable greater understanding across these boundaries.
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Commonword
Commonword is a writing development organisation based in Manchester, providing opportunities for new and aspiring writers to develop their talent and potential.
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CoolTan Arts
CoolTan Arts is an award winning arts in mental health charity run by and for adults with experience of mental health conditions.
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Counterpoints Arts
Counterpoints Arts engage with refugee and migrant experiences through arts and cultural programmes.
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Creative Minds
Creative Minds brings together artists and performers with learning disabilities and a range of people from the wider arts world to look at quality, leadership, inclusion and collaboration.
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Creative Response
Creative Response is an independent, arts related organisation established and run by professional practising artists who share their practice with vulnerable people
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Critical Network
Critical, contemporary British art: exhibition and event listings, free subscription service. The UK’s leading artist-run initiative.
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Culture Shift
Culture Shift creates dynamic partnerships where the creative and cultural sector work with community, business and education partners to produce bespoke, creative, action-based solutions.
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CVAN
The Contemporary Visual Arts Network’s ultimate goal is to nurture contemporary visual artists and organisations in order to produce internationally regarded, critically engaged work that is valued by our society.
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De La Warr Pavilion
A grade one listed modernist building housing a contemporary art gallery and auditorium.
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Disability Arts Online
Providing details of arts activities for the disabled with future projects, a directory of resources and employment opportunities.
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Drawn to the Page
Drawn to the Page is a 2 year creative partnership project funded by Arts Council England. Â Drawn To The Page will be initiating a new conversation between literature and the visual arts in the South East and providing a platform for emerging and more established writers to publish their creative responses.
English PEN
English PEN is the founding centre of a global literary network. They work to defend and promote freedom of expression, and to remove barriers to literature.
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Evolution Arts
Evolution Arts offers a variety of courses in the Brighton and Hove area, including art and writing courses. The organisation is founded on Buddhist principles.
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Fabrica
An art gallery in Brighton, committed to promoting understanding of contemporary visual art and craft.
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Fragmentary.org
Fragmentary is an arts website focusing solely on exploring the complex issues of mental health and emotions through photographic projects and artworks. They are looking for works that move, provoke, and stir a dialogue surrounding mental health, the psychology of the self and others, or projects with therapeutic potential. They showcase works from artists at varying points in their careers and create a hub of inspiration for those wishing to explore the role of mental health within the arts.
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Frame and Reference
Frame and Reference is a visual arts magazine that explores the work of 18 leading arts organisations in the South East UK.
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Free Word Centre
Free Word is an international organisation dedicated to literature, literacy and free expression.
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Get Creative
Get Creative is a campaign run by a group of cultural organisations to celebrate and support the everyday creativity happening in homes and public spaces. Â It aims to inspire people to try something new at home or at a Get Creative event and to encourage people to share their own example of everyday creativity.
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Hammer & Tongue
Brighton Hammer & Tongue presents a year round programme of poetry slams with touring guest artists at Komedia on Gardener Street. The events take place on the first Thursday of every month and the annual final is in December.
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Lapidus
Lapidus provides networks and information for people interested in writing and creativity for personal development and in working with others
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Lighthouse
Lighthouse is an arts and culture agency that connects new developments in art, technology and society.
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Literature Works
Literature Works SW – Nurturing literature development South West England.
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London Artist Quarter
Find up to date calls to artists, exhibition opportunities, funding information, competitions and other arts opportunities.
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Milton Keynes Theatre & Gallery Company
Host to national performing arts productions plus 5-6 annual exhibitions by international artists.
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Modern Art Oxford
Modern Art Oxford aim to make contemporary art accessible and engaging to the widest audience through presentation and participation.
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Modern Poetry In Translation
MPT Magazine offers an extensive poetry archive of translated poems.
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Mslexia
Mslexia are committed to helping women writers progress and succeed, through their quarterly magazine, writer’s diary and annual writing competitions.
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Myriad Editions
Myriad has a proven track record of spotting talent and helping writers and artists to reach their potential. They work with a team of highly skilled authors and editors whose creative talent and knowledge of the publishing world is second to none, and they offer these skills to the wider creative community to support new writers and encourage excellence beyond their bespoke publishing programme.
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New Writing North
News, opportunities & events for writers, mostly in northern England.
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New Writing South
Creative writing organisation in the South East of UK for writers, and agencies. Includes playwrights network, directory of writers and competitions, workshops and more.
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Nightjar Press
Nightjar Press is an independent publisher specialising in limited edition single short-story chapbooks by individual authors.
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ONCA
ONCA is an arts charity based in Brighton. Their mission is to cultivate environmental and social wellbeing through the arts. They have an ONCA Gallery where they curate and host exhibitions, performances, outreach and events that ask questions, tell stories and initiate conversations about environmental and social change. Above the gallery is a meeting room, library and co-working/ studio spaces used by creative freelancers, academics, businesses and charities.
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Openstorytellers
A charity that works to enrich and empower the lives of people who are marginalised because of learning and communication difficulties, and is co-run by people with a learning disability
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Outside In
Outside In provides a platform for artists who find it difficult to access the art world.
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Pallant House Gallery
Houses a collection of twentieth century British art and offers exhibition, events, education and outreach programmes.
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Peepal Tree Press
Peepal Tree aims to bring you the very best of international writing from the Caribbean, its diasporas and the UK.
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Phoenix Brighton
The largest artist-led arts organisation in the South East of England. 100+ studios
Photoworks
Photoworks commissions new photography, produces exhibitions and events including the Brighton Photo Biennial, publishes books and an annual magazine.
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Platform
Platform combines art, activism, education and research in one organisation, creating unique projects driven by the need for social and ecological justice.
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Platforma
Platforma arts and refugee network supports and develops arts by, about and with refugees and migrants from marginalised communities.
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Project Art Works
An artist led organisation that works with people who have complex needs on a range of visual art projects
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Provocative Publishing
Creating opportunities for writing and recording stories, which might otherwise remain unheard.
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QueenSpark Books
Since 1972 QueenSpark Books has been dedicated to gathering, preserving and making accessible Brighton & Hove’s histories, through publishing oral histories or creative responses to local history, via books, e-books, exhibitions, events, websites and other projects.
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Rattle Tales
Rattle Tales is a collective of eleven Brighton based writers. They are joined for each show by quality guest writers, chosen from open submissions.
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RedDoor Publishing
RedDoor Publishing is a new and innovative publishing house that bridges the gap between traditional publishing and self-publishing services. They operate exactly as a traditional publishing house would except that their authors underwrite the cost of publishing the UK edition of their book.
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Shape Arts
Shape provides opportunities and support for disabled artists and cultural organisations to build a more inclusive and representative cultural sector.
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ShortStops
ShortStops will keep you up to date with what’s going on in the short story world across the UK & Ireland. They announce the latest news, calls for submissions, new lit mag issues, live events, short story competitions & workshops and more.
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Society of Authors
The Society of Authors works to protect the rights and further the interests of authors in the United Kingdom. FAQ, membership information, news, and publications.
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Spread the Word
Spread the Word is London’s writer development agency. They provide high quality, low cost opportunities for writers to improve their craft and develop their careers.
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Studio Upstairs
Studio Upstairs is a working arts community. It is a place for people to express their talents through the arts who for reasons of mental health difficulties or emotional distress, choose not to participate in traditional arts institutions.
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SundaySurgeryScripts
SundaySurgeryScripts is a monthly development workshop for new drama scripts of all genre with the aim of bringing writers, actors and directors together to collaborate within a rehearsal-room setting so as to help writers progress their scripts.
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The Grammarly Blog
For those interested in all things grammar, including fun articles about how language and grammar are changing.
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The Literary Consultancy
TLC provide manuscript asessment and editorial advice for writers.
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The Mechanic’s Institute Review
MIROnline extends the exciting and high-quality writing of the Review into a wider space, for the exchange of ideas, fiction, non-fiction and poetry pieces.
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The Millions
A fantastic blog about literature – it’s less focused on writing and more about the state of books in general, but well worth a read.
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The Picador blog
This is focused on poetry, but does occasionally feature articles about writing and publishing more generally.
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The Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation are Publisher of Poetry magazine, and an independent literary organisation committed to a presence for poetry in American culture.
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The Poetry School
The Poetry School is a national arts organisation providing inspiring tuition and opportunities for poets and poetry audiences.
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The Space
The Space helps artists and organisations make great art and reach new audiences digitally
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The Talent Bank
An arts organisation that provides a free to use platform for artists and other creatives to connect and share their work.
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The Write Practice
The Write Practice is here to kick-start your practice. You have to write millions of words no one is ever going to see before you can write the ones that will change someone’s life.
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Towner Art Gallery
Towner is an award-winning contemporary art gallery and museum for South East England.
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Turner Contemporary
Turner Contemporary is one of the UK’s leading art galleries, situated on Margate seafront.
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Unlimited Impact
Unlimited Impact focuses on developing and inspiring the next generation of young disabled people passionate about making change through the arts; extending Unlimited’s reach by supporting venues across the country to successfully programme ambitious and high quality work by disabled artists; and deepening discussion and debate around work by disabled artists.
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Wasifari
Wasafiri is Britain’s premier magazine for international contemporary writing. Published quarterly, it has established a distinctive reputation for promoting work by new and established voices across the globe.
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Waterloo Press
Waterloo Press offers readers an eclectic list of the most inventive and stimulating poetry from the UK and abroad.
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Websitesetup.org
How to Start a Blog Guide – from scratch, in 20 minutes, step-by-step.
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West Sussex Writers
West Sussex Writers aim to help writers in all genres, to encourage their work and offer advice, if wanted, towards publication or gaining a wider readership. They achieve this through a mix of talks, workshops and competitions, offering something different at every meeting.
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WOOLOO.ORG
WOOLOO.ORG is an online community created by artists with the aim of facilitating interactions and collaborations between artists, curators and Open Calls.
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WORDfest Crawley
WordFest: Crawley Festival of Words. Â A program of events dedicated to the word. Spoken. Written. Performed. Printed. Thought.
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Writing East Midlands
Writing East Midlands is the writer development agency for the region. They run creative writing events and projects and they develop opportunities for emerging and established writers.
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Writing West Midlands
Writing West Midlands are the Literature Development & Delivery Agency for the West Midlands region.
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