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RadioBook Rwanda
RadioBook Rwanda is a collaboration between Rwanda, Kenya and the UK which aims to produce short stories by contemporary Rwandan writers both as podcasts and pocket-size print editions combining new art and writing.
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Opportunity: new Art new Audiences (nAnA)
Apply to our open call for artistic collaborations between East Africa and the UK
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Creating Heroines
A collaborative project with female artists and graphic novelists from South Asia and the UK
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The Baltic Countries - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania - are the Market Focus countries at the 2018 London Book Fair.
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Poets and writers walk, talk and share stories in these films from four cities across Canada
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New poetry featured across the Chinese metro
Find out about a poetry project making journeys more stimulating and inspiring
Welcome to British Council Literature
We work with hundreds of writers and literature partners to develop innovative projects and collaborations...
From Our Blog
Caribbean Poems on the Underground
By Matt BeaversIn June and July 2018 Poems on the Underground is a celebration of Caribbean poetry.
Hay Festival Journal Day 5: The Last Postcards
By Felipe Restrepo PomboRead the fifth and final Hay Festival Journal by Felipe Restrepo Pombo, the British Council Writer in Residence at Hay Festival, translated by Daniel Hahn.
Hay 2018 Writer-in-Residence: Felipe Restrepo Pombo
By Leah CrossMeet this year's Hay Writer-in-Residence, Colombian writer, editor and journalist Felipe Restrepo Pombo.
PODCAST: The enduring appeal of Jane Austen in South Asia
Georgina Godwin, host of the British Council Literature Podcast, meets Austen fans from Sri Lanka and Pakistan and speaks to the editor of a new anthology of writing in tribute to Jane Austen.
Our Latest Projects
new Art new Audiences (nAnA)
new Art new Audiences (nAnA) is an annual open call for 18 to 35-year-old artists, arts organisation...
RadioBook Rwanda
RadioBook Rwanda is an international collaboration between Rwanda, Kenya and the UK which aims to pr...
EBRD Literature Prize
Winner Istanbul Istanbul by Burhan Sönmez and translated by Ümit Hussein won the first EBRD Literatu...
The London Book Fair: Baltic Countries Market Focus 2018
The Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, will be the Market Focus countries at The London B...
Who We’re Working With
Vahni Capildeo
Vahni Capildeo was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1973, to Leila Bissoondath Capildeo and Deven...
Inua Ellams
Inua Ellams was born in Nigeria in 1984 and moved to the UK as a child. He is a poet, performer, pla...
Monique Roffey
Monique Roffey is an award winning Trinidadian-born British writer. She has written four novels and ...
Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney was born in 1991 in Castlebar, County Mayo. She holds degrees in English and American L...
Opportunities
Arts opportunities
A list of British Council current and upcoming international opportunities for artists.
Developing Your Creative Practice
Developing Your Creative Practice
Québec-UK Connections
Open call for collaborative projects between Québec and the UK in 2019 and 2020 (photo: Kajal Patel)
new Art new Audiences
Our open call for collaborative artistic projects between East Africa and the UK
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