Writing East Midlands (CIC)

Writing East Midlands is the literature development agency for the region. We support writers at various stages in their careers, connecting them with opportunity, and helping them to help themselves. We do this by running workshops and writing courses, arranging mentoring relationships and manuscript appraisals, offering one-to-one career development sessions, organizing conferences and helping with festivals and events around the region. In partnership with a broad range of cultural organisations, we encourage new relationships between writers and communities by running residencies in all sorts of settings schools, community groups, museums, libraries, theatres, prisons, care homes in city, rural, and in-between, locations. We also believe, passionately, that engaging with literature, innovatively, can bring people from different backgrounds closer together. We all have an innate need to tell our stories and have them be heard. Our activities create safe spaces where professio...