Writing East Midlands

About this Organization

Writing East Midlands is the writer development agency for the region. We run creative writing events and projects and we develop opportunities for emerging and established writers. We work in partnership with a broad range of cultural organisations including schools, universities, arts venues, museums, libraries, producers and local authorities to encourage relationships between writers and their communities. For writers we run workshops, writing courses, mentoring schemes, critical appraisals, and one-to-one career development sessions. We organise residencies over varying lengths of time in all sorts of settings. Some connect local writers to new local audiences, or support other arts activity.Others may help to uplift literacy and creativity in a school, contribute to feelings of well being in a group of elders, or offer an outlet for self-expression in a young offenders unit.