UK / Europe

UK Scriptwriting List
For TV, film and radio writers.

UK Sitcomwriters List
For sitcom writers.

UK Comedy list
Comedy discussion list, mostly regarding stand-up

Scriptreader
Peer review group for writers in the UK/Eire. There is also a regional database to facilitate the setting up of local reading groups.

BBC - The Writers' Room
Drama and comedy guidelines and fora

BBC Commissioning
This site provides programme makers with all they need to know about their structure, strategy, and programming needs http://www.bbc.tv/wales/commissioning/writers/index.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/aboutus/commissioning/index.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/drama/aboutus/script.shtml

British Screenwriting Institute
Various services and free stuff

British Society of Comedy Writers
British Society of Comedy Writers has market information.

The Burry Man Writers Center
"A worldwide community of writers - freelance job links, resources for fiction and nonfiction writers, working professionals and beginners with particular support for writing about Scotland"

Channel 4 Commissioning
This site provides programme makers with all they need to know about their structure, strategy, and programming needs

Comedy Writers Association
The Comedy Writers Association UK is striving to improve and nurture new comedy writing talent through workshops, meeting and mutual support.

Comedy Writers' Homepage
First stop for aspiring sketch writers with a random sketch generator plus sitcom writing information.

EuroPAWS
EuroPAWS, which stands for European Public Awareness of Science, aims to encourage and recognize initiatives that bring perceptive television dramas that reveal the interest, benefits, excitement and challenges of science and technology to European audiences.

Exposure
The internet resource for low-budget film-makers

Euroscript
Euroscript is a non-profit making script development agency funded by the European Union's MEDIA II programme.

The Film Council
The strategic agency responsible for developing the film industry in the UK

First Film Foundation
The First Film Foundation is a charity that exists to help new British writers, producers and directors make their first feature film.

Ideas Factory
Useful but badly designed site which aims to offer an introduction to all kinds of creativity. You will need to set your screen at 1024x768 (although they don't tell you that) or navigation buttons will be hidden.

Independent Radio Drama Productions
Advice on writing for radio; articles, competitions, playscripts, audio examples.

The Knowledge
"The Knowledge is the largest database of it's kind making it the ultimate personal production assistant!"

Stephen Leather's Homepage
A TV writer's homepage.

The National Film and Television School's Screenwriting Department
Read lectures about Writing the Feature Film. Info about their workshops and events, including the new 5-Week Feature Development Workshops.

National Producers Alliance
With a selection of screenwriting templates and articles

Netribution
The independent film maker's website.

Playwrights' Co-operative
The Playwrights' Co-operative is a group of professional and amateur writers from around the globe who have joined together to cut out the middle-people and profit makers from the world of play publishing.

Playwrights on the Web
Playwrights on the Web is an international database of playwrights & their websites, offering directors, producers & publishers a unique way to discover new plays & fresh talent

Raindance
The pioneer independent UK film organisation

Rocliffe New Writing Forum
This was created to introduce directors, actors, writers and producers to original material.

Sapex
Script printing & copy shop

Screenwriters' Store
The first stop for UK screenwriters for software, brads and stuff

Scriptwriter magazine
Quality, essential UK monthly with a good mix of craft and market articles which is simply unavailable elsewhere

Screenwriters' Workshop
Includes interesting articles in the Virtual Screenwriter section

The Script Vault
The Script Vault is a writers' resource site that offers script registration and 'off site' file backup services. They are the first ever UK based script registration service to receive full Writer's Guild approval.

The Scriptwriter's Toolkit
Radio, film, stage and sitcom templates, as used by Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran, for Word.

The Short Film Bureau
They are a non-profit organisation set up to raise awareness of the short film to a wider audience. They offer advice and support on funding, production, marketing and distribution and also script consultancy and advice.

The Script Factory
Script development organisation

Sherriffs - Performance Writers Group
Based at the Riverhouse Barn in Elbridge, Surrey, this group aims to develop and write professional theatre for the stage and screen. Find out how to become a member.

Shooting People

Site Scénario
Un French web site dedicated to screenwriting. It's worthwhile downloading the Google toolbar and using the page translation facility via Page Info if your French language skills are merde.

Situations Vacant
Situations Vacant is a project dedicated to devising, developing and testing on stage sitcoms for sale to TV and radio. They also have a discussion list.

TAPS
Workshopping showcasing organisation which has been the first route for many into TV writing.

UK Screen
The UK film and music network - with scripts wanted requests on noticeboard

Writernet
Writernet provides writers with a range of services. This site is the first stop for job opportunities

Writers' Guild of Great Britain
The organisation for professional and pre-professional writers

Writing Tips
Andrew Hyner has compiled writing tips from courses he's attended including screenwriting, radio, non-fiction, television and fiction.

WriteWords.Org
WriteWords aims to be a source of inspiration and feedback to writers, offering support, advice, must-read interviews and articles from top writing names, as well as inside info on the latest writing jobs, opportunities, competitions and news.

Worldwide:

About.com - Screenwriting
Allen White's hosts this extensive site including interviews and a complete online book

American Zoetrope
Francis Ford Coppola's site for submitting and reviewing screenplays

Animation Magazine's The Write Stuff
Jeffrey Scott's columns

Create Your Screenplay
Barry Pearson's seminar site with some extracts and articles.

Done Deal
The latest script & pitch sales in Hollywood

Dramatic Exchange
The Dramatic Exchange is a Web resource for playwrights, producers, and anybody interested in plays. They aim to provide a place where playwrights can make their plays available, and where producers and readers can look to find plays uploaded by the playwrights.

Dramatica
Screenplay system website featuring the online edition of their story structure book

From FADE IN through FADE OUT
The entire complete edition of a screenwriting book online for free.

Greatscripts List
Well moderated discussion list for screenwriters.

Hollywood Lit Sales
Submit material to the people behind such films as Forrest Gump, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Risky Business, Donnie Brasco and Wild Things. Or just read the interviews and take part in free seminars

Hollywood Screenwriters Network
Screenwriting FAQs and question and answer transcripts.

Hollywood Scriptwriter
The subscription magazine with some online articles

Indiewire
International independent film site

Internet Script Database
The leading free screenplays site

Lifewrite.com
Steve Barnes excellent UCLA screenwriting class free.

Misc.Writing Website
Misc.writing ("mw") is a UseNet newsgroup that provides a forum for discussion of writing in all its forms

MovieBytes
Screenwriting Contests & Markets Online

New York Screenwriter Monthly
Various columns by screenwriters

Nine Act Structure
"The nine act structure is the life blood of the commercially successful script"

The Playwriting Seminars
A web companion on the art & craft of playwriting

RX4 Scripts
Top, award winning screenwriter Tracey Keenan Wynn offers professional Hollywood screenplay analysis and consultation

Screentalk
Scripts, interviews and articles from the premier magazine

Screenwriters Forum
Lots of deep-linked articles sorted by category.

Screenwriters Utopia
Interviews with and advice by screenwriters

Script Crawler
"The intenet's largest script search engine"

Scriptfly
Commercial site with interviews, screenplays, links, forums

Scriptfor Sale.com
Offers articles, interviews, classes and a free newsletter all focused on helping screenwriters improve their craft and market their scripts to producers.

Scriptor's World
Free online curriculum for screenwriters from basic to advanced

Scriptmag
Online version of the magazine with articles, e-zine, message boards, live chat and an online screenwriting class

Script-O-Rama
The most comprehensive index of movie and television scripts available on the Internet

Script Secrets
Bill Martell's invaluable screenwriting articles

Scriptwriting Secrets
A hypertext book.

ScrnWrit web site
Companion to the SCRNWRiT mailing list. The most important information available on that mailing list is presented there.

Simply Scripts
Hundreds of screenplays.

Sitcom Writing Discussion List

Syd Field
Hollywood's "pre-eminent authority on the art and craft of screenwriting."

Successful Screenplays
Script consultant Rob Gregory-Browne's website with articles and online courses.

Trigger Street
Kevin Spacey's attempt to get forgiveness from the screenwriting community after the "It feels like Sam Mendes wrote American Beauty" dumbass Oscar speech

TV Writer.com
A writer-producer offers tips and opportunities to work with him

The Visual Writer
Resource site for writers with free how to write a screenplay and problem solving guide.

Wordplay
Columns and essays by screenwriters on every aspect of screenwriting plus fora. Extremely highly recommended.

Writers Digest
Although primarily a prose site, it does feature very good links

Writers Guild of America
The organisation for professional screenwriters in America with lots of useful info for non-members. including Best of the Mentors which answers the most common screenwriting questions

Writing Treatments.com
Articles and samples.

Write Safe
Online registration of scripts and treatments plus a regular competition for registrants