Writers in Residence
Posted on 18th August 2009
Writers in Residence will establish a series of roles for writers based at a range of cultural and community organisations across the East Midlands region. This is a partnership project between the Literature Network and Writing East Midlands.
We are looking for expressions of interest from organisations who would like to host a Writer in Residence in their local area. Host organisations may include schools, galleries, theatres, sport venues, community centres, libraries, museums, outreach projects, youth groups and others.
What Writers in Residence can do:
Writers in residence are an important and established method of engaging literature with other forms of art and culture and the broader community. The resident writers will represent the full range of disciplines within literature including poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, storytelling, spoken word and will be matched with areas and host organisations on the basis of suitability. The activity carried out by each writer can be tailored to the needs of the host organisation and may include workshops, talks, discussion groups or online activity.
We will be running a pilot programme in Northampton with the Library and Museum services and young people at risk of exclusion from October to Feb 2010 and then will be rolling out the full programme in the New Year.
Please email catherine@writingeastmidlands.co.uk for more details.
