Welcome to Writing West Midlands.

Who?

We are a new organisation designed  to encourage, promote and actively facilitate literature development activity in the West Midlands.

On this site you will find resources and links to Events, Opportunities for Writers, information about our Education programme, (Write On!), our annual Literature Festival (Birmingham Book Festival), Advice for Writers and more.

Who is this site for?

  • Writers

If you are just starting out you may find our ‘Advice‘ section helpful. There are also competitions, workshops and more under our ‘Opportunities‘ section.

If you are an established writer you might want to connect with organisations that work with writers, find out about working in schools or other settings, and find out about networking events for writers. You can find more information in the ‘Opportunities‘ and ‘Events‘ sections, and you are welcome to join our mailing list or contact us directly to tell us about your work as a writer or find out how we can help you further.

  • Teachers & Schools

If you are a teacher and you are looking for ways to bring creative writing alive for your students, we may be able to help.

We run an education programme putting writers into schools, and various other education-related activities. Write On! has three core strands: Writers In Schools, Original Writing Days and an Online Writing Project for Primary and Secondary school children. We invite you to have a look at our ‘Education‘ section to see examples of what we are doing.

We are also available to give advice and put you in contact with writers and others in your area if you are looking for something a little different to what the Write On! project offers.

  • Those Working in Literature Development

If you are involved in events or activities in our area that you think we should know about, please email us.

If you are looking for career development, or jobs and opportunities, please have a look at our ‘Opportunities‘ section. Please also join our mailing list.
We are inviting you to join our online community, link to our blog, participate in our polls and other research, and begin to tell us what you need from your region.

  • Many others

Whether you are a Librarian, student, editor, publisher, agent, journalist, member of a reading group or practically anything else, you may still find something of interest here.

Perhaps you have always fancied participating in a writing workshop? We will list workshops going on in the region year round. See our ‘Events‘ section. Perhaps you run a writing competition and would like to pass on information about it? Email it to us and we can add it to our ‘Opportunities‘ page. Perhaps you run events, or a readers group, and would like more information about some of the many things we offer? Perhaps you just love books?

Whatever your reason for being here,  join our mailing list and never miss out. To do that go here