Writing West Midlands

Writing Organisations in the West Midlands

This is a list of writing and literature organisations based in the West Midlands. Please also see our Writing Festivals, Writing Workshops and Writing Groups sections.

Birmingham Book Crossers can be found at http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/bcbirmingham and the BookCrossing website is www.bookcrossing.com. They are also on facebook at BCBrum.

Colour Free Visions is the slam poetry / performance poetry company run by Spoz at spoz4[at]blueyonder.co.uk. 

Midland Creative Projects Limited is an independent company founded by Jonathan Davidson. It works in the creative arts sector, specialising in literature development. It has offices in Birmingham and works across the UK and Eire. It is involved in a range of literature work, including project management, research, fundraising, consultancy, writing and training. It currently manages Writing West Midlands.

www.radiowildfire.com is an independent radio station bringing you an eclectic mix of original spoken word, literature, discussion, and writing from new and up-and-coming authors and scriptwriters. Its Director is Dave Reeves.

www.screenwm.co.uk is the lead agency for film, television and digital media in the West Midlands. It has a role in helpign to develop screenwriters.

Script is the is the West Midlands agency for dramatic writers, dedicated to developing and promoting new dramatic writing in the West Midlands.

www.storytellinginschools.co.uk is a West Midlands based agency working to support storytelling in schools. Its Director is Steve Wright.

The Write Fantastic are a group of SF and other genre writers co-ordinated by Juliet McKenna. They do panel discussions, Q&A sessions, readings, creative writing workshops. Find out more at www.thewritefantastic.com.

The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, the trade union for writers, has a very active West Midlands branch. To be kept informed of details do contact Jenny Stephens at WMidWritersGuild[at]aol.com.