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Top 25 Literary organizations based in the United Kingdom

Name: Literary organizations based in the United Kingdom
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026 317 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 317 literary organizations headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 2,071 professional contacts across them, including 370 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers literary organizations headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 20, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

317Companies

2,071Contacts tracked

370Verified emails

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The 25 largest literary organizations based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 317 literary organizations based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to literary organizations: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Faber And Faber	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	173 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Faber is one of the world’s great independent publishing houses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
2	English PEN	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	n/a	82 contacts →
	Strong evidence “English PEN promotes literature and human rights.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
3	The Bookseller	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	61 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At the heart of the book trade since 1858 News, charts, previews and more, online & in print.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
4	Edinburgh International Book Festival	Indirect evidence	Edinburgh, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	50 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Edinburgh International Book Festival is a registered charity, a not-for profit organisation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
5	John Murray	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	48 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “For nearly a quarter of a millennium, John Murray has been unashamedly populist, publishing the absorbing, provocative, commercial and exciting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
6	The Society Of Authors	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	43 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The SoA is a trade union for all types of writers, illustrators and literary translators, at all stages of their careers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
7	HAY Festival	Indirect evidence	Hay-on-wye, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	41 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Hay Festival is a registered charity, bringing readers and writers together to share stories and ideas in sustainable events live and online.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
8	National Centre For Writing	Strong evidence	Norwich, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	40 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The National Centre for Writing celebrates and explores the artistic and social power of creative writing and literary translation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
9	NEW Writing North	Indirect evidence	Newcastle Upon Tyne, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	37 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “New Writing North supports writing and reading in the North of England.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
10	Granta Publications	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	37 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Granta Publications is the home of Granta Magazine, Granta Books and Portobello Books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
11	PEN International	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	33 contacts →
	Strong evidence “PEN International promotes literature and freedom of expression.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
12	Jericho Writers	Indirect evidence	Oxford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	n/a	33 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We're a leading consultancy and membership platform for writers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
13	Writing East Midlands CIC	Strong evidence	Nottingham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	32 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Writing East Midlands is the literature development agency for the region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
14	The Poetry School	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	28 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Poetry School was founded in 1997 by three poets - Mimi Khalvati, Jane Duran and Pascale Petit with the aim of providing structured, high quality teaching programmes for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
15	Writing On The Wall	Strong evidence	Liverpool, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	26 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Writing on the Wall (WoW) is a writing and literature organisation based in Liverpool, who have been awarded Arts Organisation in the 2021 Liverpool City Region Culture and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
16	Bradford Literature Festival	Strong evidence	University Of Bradford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	25 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Bradford Literature Festival (BLF) has quickly risen to become one of the UK’s largest literature festivals and Europe’s most eclectic and diverse literature festival with global…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
17	Totally Entwined Group	Indirect evidence	Lincoln, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	22 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Totally Entwined Group is comprised of three publishing houses – Totally Bound Publishing (Romantica), Finch Books (Young Adult), Pride Publishing (GLBTQI Fiction).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
18	Poet In The City	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	20 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Poet in the City connects people and places through poetry, creates access to challenging ideas, attracts radically new audiences, brings about social and behavioural change, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
19	Pushkin Press Limited	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	19 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Pushkin Press was founded in 1997, and publishes novels, essays, memoirs, children’s books-everything from timeless classics to the urgent and contemporary.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
20	Mslexia	Indirect evidence	Newcastle Upon Tyne, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	17 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Read by top authors and absolute beginners, Mslexia is a quarterly masterclass in the business and psychology of writing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
21	Nottingham City Of Literature	Strong evidence	Nottingham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	17 contacts →
	Strong evidence “As a UNESCO City of Literature, our mission is to build better futures with words.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
22	Wigtown Festival Company	Strong evidence	Wigtown, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	15 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We are a literary arts organisation based in Scotland's National Book Town.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
23	Melius Scripto Press International, LTD	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	15 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Melius Scripto Press International, Ltd (MSPI) is an international community of hard-working authors, editors, readers, artists, and donors who are united by a shared love of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
24	The Poetry Society	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Poetry Society was founded in 1909 to promote a “more general recognition and appreciation of poetry”.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
25	Royal Society Of Literature	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	13 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The RSL is one of the oldest learned societies in the UK, and the national charity for the advancement of literature.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: literary organizations. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names literary organizations.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of literary organizations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name literary organizations. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Literary organizations based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 20, 2026

17.9%Verified-email coverage

6.5Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

35.0%Largest-city concentration · London

Sep 20, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

248

11-50

51-200

201-500

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 317 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among literary organizations, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “literary organizations”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names literary organizations), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among literary organizations, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 370 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Literary organizations by metro

Literary organizations in London111

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names literary organizations, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many literary organizations are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 317 literary organizations headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Faber And Faber, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most literary organizations?

London leads with 111 headquartered companies, followed by Edinburgh (13) and Manchester (9).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 370 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 317 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.