Links

We hope you have enjoyed visiting the Tindal Street Press website. You might also find these other websites of interest.

Tindal Street Press's Funders

Birmingham City Council

Birmingham Central Library is one of the largest, most important public libraries in Europe. Visit this site for all kinds of information about Birmingham's vast library network.

http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/libraries.bcc

Arts Council England, West Midlands

West Midlands Arts has joined with the other Regional Arts Boards and the Arts Council of England to create a new single development organisation for the arts in England.

http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/

Other websites of interest ...

ArtsFest 2007

ArtsFest is the UK's largest, free arts festival and unique to Birmingham, taking place across the city centre and beyond on the weekend of 8 & 9 September 2007.

http://www.artsfest.org.uk/

BookGroup Info

An excellent source of news, interviews, reviews and advice for all those readers involved in book groups. Lots of suggestions for books and literary events that you might enjoy, plus contact details for bookgroups in your area.

http://www.bookgroup.info/

Catherine O'Flynn's Qanik

A funny and entertaining site with Catherine's thoughts on shopping, litter, industrial landscapes, films - and the joys of Ladybird books. Well worth a visit.

http://www.qanik.net/

Birmingham Book Festival

The Birmingham Book Festival brings a wonderful range of writers to the city centre from 15-22 October 07: a dynamic 7 days of ideas and inspiration. Many events include discussion and debate, enabling audiences to voice their own ideas and allowing readers and writers to share their enthusiasm for books and writing.

http://www.birminghambookfestival.org/

Birmingham Words

Birmingham Words is a new independent Midlands-based site for creative writing run by Will Buckingham, author of Cargo Fever (Tindal Street, 2007)

http://www.birminghamwords.co.uk/

http://www.willbuckingham.com/

BookTrust

BookTrust runs book prizes and brilliant projects to encourage readers of all ages and cultures to discover and enjoy books and reading.

http://www.booktrust.org.uk

Cargo Fever

Welcome to the Cargo Fever website, which features Will Buckingham's novel, set in the wilds of Indonesia.

http://www.cargofever.com

At http://www.cargofever.com/listen you can enjoy the author reading from Cargo Fever. He is accompanied by music, arranged and played by Will Buckingham and based on a theme written by C. Batmomolin.

Crockatt & Powell

A fabulous independent bookshop based in Lower Marsh near Waterloo station. Our genial hosts for the London launch for Catherine O'Flynn's What Was Lost. Passionate, knowledgeable booksellers who run the sort of shop where you'd like to buy all your books from and who write a highly recommended blog at

http://www.crockattpowell.com/homepage.htm/

http://www.crockattpowell.com/

Everyone Who's Anyone

An amazing website with email addresses of agents and editors in the US and UK. Plus lots more.

http://www.everyonewhosanyone.com/index.html

The Ideas Factory

Series of interviews with authors and publishers, with articles offering practical, useful advice for aspiring writers.

http://westmidlands.ideasfactory.com/writing/

Julia Bell

Meet our good friend Julia Bell - author of stunning teenage fiction - including Dirty Work (Young Picador, 2007) and Massive - and co-editor of Tindal Street Press's first title, the extremely cool Hard Shoulder.

http://www.juliabell.net/

Laura Hird

Meet Laura Hird from Edinburgh: author of the fabulous 'Nail & Other Stories' and the wonderfully bleak 'Born Free'.

http://www.laurahird.com/

Lit-Net

Lit-net is a virtual literature centre for the West Midlands. An excellent resource with up-to-date information about storytelling, publishing, poetry, libraries, festivals...

http://www.lit-net.org/

Mslexia

The magazine for women who write. Advice and inspiration; news, reviews, interviews; competitions and grants. Submissions welcome.

http://www.mslexia.co.uk/

New Books Mag

The magazine for readers and reading groups. Regular subscribers know about the exclusive author interviews and book-related articles, as well as the opportunity to apply for free books, but if you want to find out more about newbooks and apply for a free introductory copy you can do that on the website.

http://www.newbooksmag.com/

Pulp

The online home of new fiction. A lovely site with short stories, authors' Top Tens, book reviews and listings for live literature events.

http://www.pulp.net/

ReadySteadyBook

A fine literary site full of excellent book reviews which are clear, unpretentious and open-minded. Highly recommended.

http://www.readysteadybook.com/

The Short Story

'Everything you could want to know about the short story.' This site aims to increase the profile, prestige and presence of the short story in our culture. There are stories, articles, book recommendations and competitions.

http://www.theshortstory.org.uk/

Sidura Ludwig

Sidura is a young Canadian writer who lived in Birmingham from 2000 until 2004. Tindal Street published her beautiful short stories in Are You She? and looks forward to being the UK publisher for her debut novel Holding My Breath in January 2008.

http://www.sidura.com/

The Stirrer

A site which offers news that matters, campaigns that count for Birmingham, the Black Country and beyond.

http://www.thestirrer.co.uk/

Thirst

The Thirst book club offers inspiring work from independent publishers from across the North of England.

http://www.thirstbooks.com/