Writer Networking Events
Things Going On For Writers
Writer Networking Afternoon, Saturday 11th June 2011, Coventry
8 months ago
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A Writer Networking Afternoon, Coventry
Saturday 11th June, 2011, 2pm to 4pm, The George Eliot Building, Coventry University, Coventry
Writing West Midlands is promoting a gathering for emerging and established writers, targeted at those who work in and around Coventry and Warwickshire but open to any writer in the West Midlands region. This Writer Networking Meeting will be an opportunity for writers to share their experiences. We have run several similar such events over the years in Birmingham, Warwick, Newcastle under Lyme and Worcester, and writers have found them a very useful way of developing their contacts.
In addition to meeting each other (we expect around 25 writers to be present) there will be short presentations by Nick Walker of Talking Birds on his radio production work (including with BBC Radio 4), Sara Beadle of the Birmingham Book Festival on how festivals work with writers, Judith Allnatt on becoming a published novelist (now working on her third novel) and Jenny Stephens wearing her Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and theatre producer hats (with Hoopla Productions, who have a show on at The Belgrade Theatre).
Our thanks to Alyson Morris and Coventry University for supporting this event.
Cost: Free
Deadline for booking: if possible by Tuesday 7th June 2011
How to book: Get in touch via www.writingwestmidlands.org/contact
The Writers’ Toolkit 2010
1 year ago
The Writers’ Toolkit 2010 was our third annual writer networking conference. Responses from those who attended have been very positive and we are grateful to all the writers and reprsentatives of literature organisations who attended. Our next writer networking event is our Writers in Schools skill sharing day on Saturday 21st May 2011. Register your interest via our contact page.
Welcome
2 years ago
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