Here, you can find an excellent critique and manuscript editing service, and a short story contest.

Publishers of horror and speculative fiction since 2003.
Twice-yearly short story contest with top prize of £500. 

Lots of writing contests here. 

For people who prize writing.

Excellent website, great idea... Listen online to short stories or download them for your iPod/GooglePhone/mp3 player - listen here, listen everywhere, as they succinctly put it!

The place for aspiring writers. Competitions, resources, articles, markets, links and more. 

Writing West Midlands is the Literature Development Agency for the West Midlands. We currently manage Write On! (our writing education programme), the Birmingham Book Festival (our festival and year-round events programme) and The Writers' Toolkit (our writer-networking programme). We are developing other projects and initiatives with and for writers in the West Midlands, including Ears Wide Open, an audio commissioning programme being run jointly with Theatre Writing Partnership in the East Midlands.

Priya Sharma has been published in Dark Tales, the horror and speculative fiction anthology . Click the link above to visit her page.

Website for the Worcestershire Literary Festival, to be held from 17th June to 27th June 2011.

"We hope the Festival 2011 will encompass everything from spoken word, poetry readings, seminars, workshops, theatre performances, outdoor street theatre, an artists and book stall market and much more."