External Online Resources

Book Industry

• Book Marketing Ltd
  A premier source of information and research on the book industry, it undertakes a wide range of private and syndicated research projects, and publishes a variety of market reports.
• House of Mini Picture Books
  An online free resource of 20 picture stories, to be downloaded/printed/DIY-ed into mini picture books.
• Intellectual Property Office of Singapore
  The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) is the statutory board that advises and administers the Intellectual Property (IP) regime, promotes IP usage and builds the expertise so as to facilitate the development of IP eco-system in Singapore.
• International ISBN Agency
  International Standard Book Number System for Books, Software, Mixed Media etc. in Publishing, Distribution and Libraries.
• Music Publishers (Singapore) Ltd
  An association comprising of music publishing companies in Singapore, who collectively controls a large number of music copyrights in Singapore.
• Nielsen BookScan
  Provides a continuous market measurement of US retail book sales based on electronic sales data analysis.
• Publishers Marketplace
  A dedicated marketplace for publishing professionals to find each other, and to locate critical information and unique database.
• Publishers Weekly
  Publishers Weekly, familiarly known in the book world as PW and “the bible of the book business,” is a weekly news magazine focused on the international book publishing business.
• Singapore Book Publishers Association
  The Association represents the interests of Singapore publishers who are engaged in a wide range of publishing, marketing and distribution activities in both print and digital formats.
• The Association of Authors’ Agent
  The Association of Authors’ Agents (AAA) is a British voluntary trade association whose members are all UK-based literary agencies.
• The Book Seller
  The Bookseller is a weekly source of incisive, objective industry news and analysis, reaching all major bookshops and publishers in the UK and in nearly 100 countries worldwide.
• The Copyright Licensing Agency Limited
  The Copyright Licensing Agency Limited (CLA) licenses organisations to copy and re-use extracts from print and digital publications on behalf of the copyright owners – authors, publishers and visual artists.
• What’s New in Publishing
  A regular update on the publishing industry including, magazine, newspaper and digital publishing.
• WritersNet
  WritersNet is the Internet directory of writers, editors, publishers and literary agents.

Grants & Residencies

• David TK Wong fellowship
  The David T. K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship is a unique and generous annual award of £26,000 to enable a fiction writer who wants to write in English about the Far East to spend a year in the UK, at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.
• Sangam House
  Sangam House is an international writers' residency program located in India which brings together writers from across the world to live and work among their peers in a safe, supportive and nurturing space.
• Skyros Writers’ Lab
  The Writers’ Lab in Skyros island, Greece, offers writers, thinkers and dabblers the opportunity to learn from distinguished writers, share the joys and struggles of the creative process, discover their strengths and polish their skills.

Journals & Magazines

• AngloINFO Singapore
  AngloINFO is an online network providing local English-language information services to expatriates worldwide.
• Asia Literary Review
  A quarterly journal of prose and poetry.
• Asian Cha magazine
  An online quarterly journal based in Hong Kong.
• Asiatic
  A refereed journal based in Malaysia that publishes research articles on Asian writings in English as well as creative works by writers of Asian origin and the Asia-Pacific region.
• Biblio: A Review of Books
  Biblio is an attractive, large-format newspaper-style book review journal published in New Delhi.
• Creative Work
  A Hong Kong-based literary and film agency that aims to assist authors, script writers and film/documentary producers in exploring creative and commercial aspects of their ideas and work.
• Griffith Review
  Published by Griffith University and ABC Books, it celebrates good writing and promotes public debate.
• Literature of Singapore, at the Postcolonial Web
  A NUS University Scholars Programme project, which contains listing of local authors, with introductions, bibliographies, and some online samples of Singaporean writing.
• Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing
  Launched in 1989, MANOA strives to bring the literature of Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas to English-speaking readers. To date, the journal has published forty-three volumes, about 8,000 pages, and over 1,000 writers, translators, reviewers, and editors. In addition, MANOA sponsors readings, exhibits, performances, and other events.
• Metropoli d’Asia
  Metropoli d’Asia is a new publishing company founded by Andrea Berrini, writer and essayist. The objective is to discover, translate and offer contemporary innovative writing by Asian authors to a wide public.
• Publishers Weekly
  Publishers Weekly, familiarly known in the book world as PW and “the bible of the book business,” is a weekly news magazine focused on the international book publishing business.
• Publishing Perspectives
  Publishing Perspectives is an online magazine of international book publishing news and opinion.
• Quarterly Literary Review Singapore
  QLRS is the leading online literary journal in Singapore, publishing new writings as well as essays, reviews and interviews.
• The Book Seller
  The Bookseller is a weekly source of incisive, objective industry news and analysis, reaching all major bookshops and publishers in the UK and in nearly 100 countries worldwide.
• The Flying Inkpot
  An online platform for writing about the arts in Singapore, and which also provides comprehensive listings of productions, auditions and workshops.
• The Tiger Moth Review
  The Tiger Moth Review is a new journal of art + literature that features poetry, prose, art and photography that engages with nature, culture, the environment and ecology. The journal is interested in delving into the relationships, tensions and juxtapositions between man and the world they live in, the land they live on, the nature they interact with and the politics of living in an environmentally conscious way.
• What’s New in Publishing
  A regular update on the publishing industry including, magazine, newspaper and digital publishing.

Writers Centre & Associations

• New South Wales Writers Centre
  The NSW Writers’ Centre is a government funded not for profit organisation that exists to promote writing-based culture and the rights and interests of writers in NSW.
• Northern Territory Writers’ Centre and ‘Wordstorm’
  The NT Writers’ Centre has 350 members throughout the Northern Territory, who range from hobby writers to published authors.
• Queensland Writers Centre
  QWC is a not-for-profit cultural enterprise with more than 2,200 members, and is the publisher of The Australian Writer's Marketplace – Australia's leading resource of the writing and publishing industry.
• Sydney PEN
  An association of writers devoted to freedom of expression in Australia and in the world at large. It is affiliated to international PEN.
• The Substation
  The Substation is Singapore's first independent contemporary arts centre.
• Word Forward Limited
  A non-profit arts company that organises literary, cross arts, community and arts education programmes, and poetry slam sessions.

Other Useful Sites

• BookSG
  A digital collection of Singapore and Southeast Asia's print heritage.
• Monsters under the Bed
  Monsters Under the Bed is a creative writing school, and part of the National Arts Council’s Art Elective Programme.