A new online magazine for children & young people
Over the past couple of months we’ve been planning the launch of a new online project for children and young people in the West Midlands following the ending of Write On! Online in March 2013. After...
View ArticleSummer Workshops!
Next month we are holding a Family Writing Workshop at the Pen Museum in the Jewellery Quarter. How fitting! But aside from the obvious celebration of the history of the pen, what else is there to know...
View ArticleCoventry Mysteries Festival Showcase June 2013
On Saturday 8 June 2013, six members from the Coventry and Polesworth Writing Squads performed at this year’s Coventry Mysteries Festival. The theme for the Festival was ‘re-creation’ and the group...
View ArticleOriginal Writing Day
Yesterday was Original Writing Day at Newman University and what a wonderful day it was. We welcomed nine schools from across the region to enjoy a morning of creative writing workshops with three...
View ArticleSupporting Writing – The Bigger Picture
By Jonathan Davidson There never was a time when direct funding for the arts was guaranteed, but indirect funding has always been there, particularly for literature and creative writing. The nineteenth...
View ArticleSo, you read books all day…?
By Joanne Penn This week marks my four year anniversary working for Writing West Midlands, and what a four years it has been! Well, technically, Writing West Midlands didn’t exist when I started...
View ArticleWriters’ Toolkit 2013
After a bit of head-scratching, we worked out this was the sixth Writers’ Toolkit. But it was definitely my first. And for everyone, the first time at the Birmingham Ormiston Academy, as creative...
View ArticleWorld Book Night 2014
This year we were looking forward to celebrating World Book night by having a literary quiz at Dudley Library, in partnership with West Midlands Readers’ Network, and we were not disappointed! Teams...
View ArticleSian’s Exit Blog Post
As I approach the end of my last day at Writing West Midlands, I am looking back over the past couple of years. Having started before I’d properly even left university, I was just excited to be...
View ArticleComing and Going – Sara’s Blog Post
When a member of the team departs it forces you to have honest conversations about what you, as an organisation, do. Twice I have found myself thinking along these lines in the last year – this month...
View ArticleNews from Room 204
Our Room 204 writers have been busy over the last few months, with a flurry of good news just recently. Here’s the latest: Romalyn Ante’s debut poetry collection, Rice & Rain, is out from V. Press...
View ArticleInspiration from Australia: news from Room 204 writer Justina Hart
We asked our Room 204 writer Justina Hart to tell us about her recent research trip to Australia: It’s February 2016 when I receive the email from Writing West Midlands nominating me to attend a London...
View ArticleRoom at the Top: A Writer’s Week in the Rotunda
We asked Birmingham Poet Laureate, Richard O’Brien, to tell us a bit about his residency in the Rotunda in central Birmingham, which he did in January 2019. If you spend much time in Birmingham and...
View ArticleNews from Room 204
Our Room 204 writers have been busy over the last few months, with a flurry of good news just recently. Here’s the latest: Romalyn Ante’s debut poetry collection, Rice & Rain, is out from V. Press...
View ArticleInspiration from Australia: news from Room 204 writer Justina Hart
We asked our Room 204 writer Justina Hart to tell us about her recent research trip to Australia: It’s February 2016 when I receive the email from Writing West Midlands nominating me to attend a London...
View ArticleRoom at the Top: A Writer’s Week in the Rotunda
We asked Birmingham Poet Laureate, Richard O’Brien, to tell us a bit about his residency in the Rotunda in central Birmingham, which he did in January 2019. If you spend much time in Birmingham and...
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