English Literature and Creative Writing: Websites and Organisations

Roehampton resources guide for Children's Literature.

A large collection of brilliant, moving, funny and groundbreaking poems that you can read online, as well as a quote-finding service.

Collections include the Black Plays Archive and NT scripts, set designs, and props from 1963 onwards.

The Poetry Archive is a not-for-profit organisation that produces, acquires and preserves recordings of poets reading their own work out loud.

Read BBC TV, radio and film scripts here.

SPINE Festival is for children, young people and families and takes place each year in libraries situated at the heart of London’s communities.

London’s writer development agency, campaigning to ensure that publishing reflects the diversity of the city.

'Queer arts for the hearts of London'

Extraordinary art in unexpected places

Experience theatre, spoken word, talks, new writing and creative learning.

The National Theatre's catalogue of plays written by Black British, African, and Caribbean playwrights.

Contains recordings of interviews with British theatre goers and practitioners from 1945-1968.

The scripts of all new plays performed in Britain from 1824 to 1968. (Available online via Nineteenth Century collections: https://library.roehampton.ac.uk/ncco).

Britain's first black-led theatre company, based in Brixton in 1969-1978.

Pioneering company of Deaf and disabled artists, founded in 1980.

London's biennial theatre event, at different venues across the city.

Collective experimental theatre company.

Championing artists from the Global Majority in the UK since 1989.

National Theatre's series on black British theatre.