ukauthors.com

This is a website I visit often. I know it is set up for writers, which I am not. But let me tell you this is a great place for readers too! Go have a look, and find yourself caught up in one of the many stories on there........enjoy!!

Isn't it about time you updated your info? This site links to almost 300 others (more added every day), not 16 (where it has been stuck for months)! Also, where have the many, many (all excellent) reviews gone? And slow? I don't think so... Just about the only info that is correct is that it indeed has NO pop-ups (but even that had to be pointed out to you). UKA now has more than 2,000 members, all of whom seem more than satisfied with the service. Their resource pages are extensive and up-to-date. Time for you to look again, methinks.

UKAuthors was initially launched in January 2002 by Richard Harris and Andrea Lowne as a free, UK-based website on which writers and poets could publish their work and receive ratings, comments and feedback and read and comment on the work of their fellow-members. Since its inception the site has grown enormously. There are already almost 4000 stories, poems, columns and articles online, with an average of 400 new submissions and 100 new registered users joining every month. UKA also features a hugely popular Discussion Forum, where debate about all things literary (and otherwise!)is encouraged. There is also an extensive resource directory containing (mainly) UK competitions, markets, news, publishers, books, agents, small presses and much more for the benefit of new writers. UKA has already published its first prose and poetry anthology, which contains the best prose and poetry pieces published on the site. The content of the book was nominated and voted upon by the members themselves, making this a 100% communal, and probably unique, project. The 'Voices from the Web' anthology is now a 412 page paperback, available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Waterstones and WH Smith, amongst others. A second anthology is now underway and UKA have just set up a publishing branch of the site, that aim of which is to offer previously unknown and unpublished authors a chance to have their work published in a fair and democratic way without having to resort to so-called vanity publishers, and to get their work out there and noticed. All in all, a great place to be!Oh, and I'd just like to correct one thing - UKA does NOT have pop-ups!

A fabulous site which is constantly being updated and improved. The latest facility (the first for a writing site, I believe) is UKAlive. Using this faility, members can themselves upload an audio file of their work, so that the piece can be listened to and read simultaneously by fellow members. New members (from all over the world) are made to feel very welcome and there doesn't seem to be any of the nastiness and aggression which is often found on other sites even, sadly, writers sites. There are now well over 2000 members and UKA publish (under the umbrella of their small press publishing compant, The UKA Press) an annual anthology of members work, chosen democratically by the members themselves. The resource section is amazing and kept up-to-date with the latest competitions, workshops/courses, news and calls for submissions. In short, if one is looking for a friendly, helpful and professional site on which to publish one's work, you need look no further!