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Details of literary short courses are listed on the following British Council website:

• Literature Training

Contact the following:

International Centre for Distance Learning
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
Telephone: +44 (0)1908 653537
Fax: +44 (0)1908 654173
E-mail: icdl-enquiries@open.ac.uk
Website: http://www-icdl.open.ac.uk

Search the Education UK website, produced by the British Council to help international students interested in studying for a UK course or qualification.

The Open College of Arts has a number of creative writing correspondence courses.

Open College of Arts
Houndhill
Worsborough
Barnsley
South Yorkshire S70 6TU
Telephone: +44 (0)1226 730 495
Fax: +44 (0)1226 730 838
E-mail: open.arts@ukonline.co.uk
Website: http://www.oca-uk.com

Study Programmes
National Extension College
The Michael Young Centre
Purbeck Road
Cambridge CB2 2HN
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 400350
E-mail: info@nec.ac.uk
Website: http://www.nec.ac.uk/courses

The Writing Magazine can provide you with information about correspondence courses.

Writing Magazine
PO Box 4
Nairn IV12 4HU
Telephone: +44 (0)1667 454441
Fax: +44 (0)1667 454401

For poetry correspondence courses contact

Blue Nose Poetry
PO Box 29695
London E2 0FD
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8981 2548
E-mail: bluenose@athelstan.netkonect.co.uk

The Open University runs distance learning courses world-wide

STELLA Scottish Literature course delivered via computer: http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STELLA/packs/stelpack.htm

The Writers Bureau runs creative writing correspondence courses

Other online courses:

trAce at the University of Nottingham Trent runs a number of creative writing courses e.g. Screenwriting, Novels.

Cardiff University has a Certificate course in creative writing

The University of East Anglia and Manchester Metropolitan University are developing online postgraduate courses

A very useful site/book is www.internetwriter.co.uk which contains excerpts from The Internet: A Writer's Guide (by Jane Dorner, A&C Black, £9.99) with over 1000 related links

Learn Direct and Hot Courses allow you to search for UK courses, including online courses.

An Introduction to Contemporary Children's Literature is run by the University of Surrey Roehampton with an emphasis on the development of children as readers.