Links and Resources

We are always looking for useful links and resources to offer to our ever growing membership. If there's a site you swear by, or a user guide you can't do without, let us know and we'll list it here! Send your links to links@thesyp.org.uk

Literary Societies and Events

General ‡ Societies ‡ Shops ‡ Scottish Links ‡ Poetry ‡ Publishing Blogs and websites

General
The Book Trust
British Arts Festivals Association (BAFA)
English PEN
Royal Festival Hall
Litro - Stories for the Underground
Logos - the publishing journal
Goldfish - not the credit card, but an online showcase of new writing talent from the MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College, London

Societies
The Galley Club
Publishers Publicity Circle
Women In Publishing
Royal Society of Literature
Society for Editors and Proofreaders
Society of Indexers

Shops
Events at Waterstones
Borders

Scottish Links
Scottish Publishers Association
Scottish Book Trust

Poetry
Apples & Snakes
Poetry London
Poetry Library, London

Publishing Blogs and websites
BoingBoing
Booksellers Association Blog
Buch Markt
Charkin Blog
Danuta Kean
Don't Give Up the Day Job
Girl Friday
The Good Library Blog
Grumpy Old Bookman
Guardian Book Blog
Publishing Hub
Scott Pack's Me and My Big Mouth
Snowbooks
Susan Hill's blog
Mediabistro
Myslexia

Careers Information: Links and Resources

Courses ‡ Press ‡ Agencies ‡ Other places to look for jobs ‡ Training ‡ Useful Contacts

Courses

There are a number of undergraduate and postgraduate publishing and publishing-related courses (some part-time/long-distance) on offer at the following colleges and universities (NB this is not an exhaustive list and you should do your own research, too).

West Herts College (Watford)
Tel: 01923 812 661 | www.westherts.ac.uk

London College of Printing
Tel: 020 7514 6569 | www.lcp.linst.ac.uk

Oxford Brookes University
Tel: 01865 741 111 l www.brookes.ac.uk

University of Plymouth
Tel: 01752 238106 l www.plymouth.ac.uk

University of Stirling
Tel: 01786 467 490 l www.stir.ac.uk

Napier University (Edinburgh)
Tel: 0131 455 6150 l www.napier.ac.uk

Middlesex University
Tel: 020 8362 5000 l www.mdx.ac.uk

Robert Gordon University (Aberdeen)
Tel: 01224 263 901 l www.rgu.ac.uk

City University (London)
Tel: 020 7477 8221 l www.city.ac.uk

Funding opportunities are rare, but career development loans are available, and it may be worth approaching the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, which has part-funded students in the past.

Where to look for jobs

Press

The Guardian (Mon/Sat) l www.jobs.guardian.co.uk

The Bookseller (Fridays) | www.thebookseller.com

Publishing News (weekly) | www.publishingnews.co.uk

European Bookseller (monthly)

Agencies

All levels

Covent Garden Bureau
Tel: 020 7495 8822

Judy Fisher Associates
Tel: 020 7437 2277

Career Moves Publishing Recruitment
Tel: 020 7292 2900

Inspired Selection (Oxford)
Tel: 01865 292 030 | www.inspiredselection.co.uk

Inspired Selection (London)
Tel: 020 7953 4060 | www.inspiredselection.co.uk

KP Publishing Personnel
Tel: 020 7439 8071

Second jobs and up

Astron
Tel: 020 7734 4940 |

Judy Farquharson
Tel: 020 7493 8824 | www.jflrecruit.com

Intelligent Resources
Tel: 020 7375 0085 | www.intelligentresources.com

Meridian Search and Selection
Tel: 020 7795 6633 | www.meridian-recruit.com

Other places to look for jobs

www.bookcareers.com

www.prospects.ac.uk

www.totaljobs.com

www.careersatrandom.co.uk

www.penguin.co.uk/jobs

Job Search with Jobrapido

SYP Job Database

Training

The Publishing Training Centre and the Society of Freelance Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP), among others, run short courses in all areas of publishing.

A comprehensive guide to training courses appears in The Bookseller, usually in November.

Useful contacts

Publishers addresses are listed in The Writer’s Handbook (which also gives information about book and magazine publishing, newspapers, poetry, radio, theatre, TV, video and film, as well as agents, prizes, writer’s circles, associations, festivals etc.) and The Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook. There are several well-established societies catering to particular groups within publishing, from children’s publishing to production.

Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Tel: 020 7227 3500 l www.phf.org.uk

Society of Freelance Editors and Proofreaders
Tel: 020 7403 5141 l www.sfep.org.uk

The Publishing Training Centre
Tel: 020 8874 2718 l www.train4publishing.co.uk

The Society of Authors
Tel: 020 7373 6642 l www.societyofauthors.net