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SUPPORTING Gibb St, Birmingham B9 4AA Calendar January - April 2015 JANUARY Saturday 10 Young Writers’ Foundation Group £80/£65 for the year Thursday 15 Short and Sweet: Short Fiction Salon Free Saturday 24 Writer Networking Morning: Stafford Free Tuesday 27 Short Course: Towards a Poetry Collection £110 for six sessions FEBRUARY Thursday 5 Poetry by Heart - Birmingham & West Midlands Final Free Tuesday 10 David Lodge: / Quite a Good Time to be Born, A Memoir £4 Thursday 12 Short and Sweet: Short Fiction Salon Free Monday 16 - Friday 20 Page Talk Young Writers’ Week £5 per day | £25 for the week Saturday 21 Page Talk Young Writers’ Festival Free Saturday 28 The Student Writers’ Toolkit £12 MARCH Thursday 12 Short and Sweet: Short Fiction Salon Free Saturday 14 Writer Networking Morning: Dudley Free APRIL Thursday 2 Jonathan Coe - Short Stories and Live Music £10 / £8 Thursday 9 Short and Sweet: Short Fiction Salon Free Thanks to all Friends, Supporters & Benefactors of Writing West Midlands. Programme of Activities If you would like more information about our Friends scheme, please visit the January - April 2015 Support Us page on either of our websites. www.writingwestmidlands.org / www.birminghamliteraturefestival.org Writing West Midlands, Unit 204, The Custard Factory, SUPPORTING Gibb St, Birmingham B9 4AA. Tel: 0121 246 2770 CREATIVE WRITERS AND CREATIVE WRITING www.writingwestmidlands.org IN THE WEST MIDLANDS. Company Registration Number: 6264124. Registered Charity Number: 1147710. WWW.WRITINGWESTMIDLANDS.ORG The advertised programme is subject to change without notice where unavoidable. WHO WE ARE & WHAT WE DO WELCOME We are the region’s literature development Happy New Year and welcome to Writing West agency. We support the development of Midlands’ programme of events and activities creative writing activities and participation for creative writers in the West Midlands. across the West Midlands. We are starting some new projects while on working on a first poetry collection, led by In this brochure you will find details of our public activities between January and working hard to sustain activities and invest in Jane Commane of Nine Arches Press. April 2015. There are three main strands to our work. Look out for the symbols writers and writing over the long term. below. Literature and writers in performance are Our new Young Writers’ Foundation Group is important as ever. Short & Sweet is a new designed for young people aged 16 to 20, with monthly opportunity for writers to test out fiction WRITERS FESTIVALS & EVENTS four day workshops across the year. In addition in performance. We are also looking forward to we are delighted to host the Birmingham and Jonathan Coe’s performance of some of his We support writers as they develop their We run literature events around the year. These West Midlands final of the Poetry by Heart short stories with gifted musicians in April, and creative careers. We run training courses and range from book launches and short fiction competition, testing young people in performing we are honoured to jointly present the regional workshops, networking events and industry open mics to a ten day festival, the Birmingham contemporary and classic poetry. Young writers launch of David Lodge’s memoir, Quite a conferences and a writer development Literature Festival, which takes place each and performers will also want to take part in Good Time to be Born. programme. We also signpost people towards October. our third Page Talk Young Writers’ Week & opportunities, projects and training. www.birminghamliteraturefestival.org Festival, in Stafford. Finally, a few messages. While we are www.writingwestmidlands.org supported by Arts Council England and other Our writing industry work continues, too. Room funders, much of our income is generated by 204, our writer development programme, will sales - tickets for events but also books and be recruiting again in February, and our third our near-legendary West Midlands Writers YOUNG WRITERS Student Writers’ Toolkit takes place on 28th Tea Towels... If you value our work and want February. If you are a student or recently to receive manifold benefits please consider We work with children and young people in and out of school to develop their interest in creative graduated come along to connect with the becoming a Friend, Supporter or Benefactor. writing through our Write On! programme. This work is made up of: in-school writing workshop people and organisations who make creative If you are in a position to offer more, please projects; out of school creative writing clubs (Write On! Young Writers’ groups); and our online writing happen. consider sponsoring a Birmingham Literature Write On! Magazine. Write On! works with children and young people aged 8 - 20 and also Festival event or one of our twenty one Young involves teachers, parents and carers. Additionally, we have Writer Networking Writers’ Groups. www.writingwestmidlands.org/young-writers-schools sessions happening in Stafford and Dudley in January and March, and another short course Wishing you a successful writing year. THE WRITING WEST MIDLANDS TEAM Jonathan Davidson Abigail Campbell Joanne Penn Chris Swann STAY IN TOUCH Chief Executive Festival Programmer Projects Manager Events Manager From time to time other events and activities may take place that we aren’t able to include here. To stay in touch join our mailing list. For more details about what we do, Sara Beadle Connor Evans Hayley Frances Emma Boniwell please visit www.writingwestmidlands.org. Programmes Director Team Administrator Project Fieldworker Relationship Manager Tweet us @writingwestmids or find us on Facebook. Olivia Chapman PR and Communications Manager If you are a writer in the region, we’d love to hear from you. Cover Image: Bluebell Woods, Shropshire, West Midlands. NEWS FROM US NEWS FROM US From the opening of applications for our DOES CREATIVE WRITING POSITIVELY IMPACT YOUNG PEOPLE’S writer development programme to a new WELL-BEING? Yes it does! Through 2014 we have participants aged 12-16. event series and an online shop, here’s a been measuring the well-being of selection of our news... young people involved in our young • Emotional well-being, self-esteem writers’ projects. Funded by the Paul and satisfaction with friends all rose by Hamlyn Foundation, we have initiated 10-12% in participants aged 16-19. ROOM 204 OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS FOR 2015-16 a series of questionnaires and activities to see how engagement with Here’s what some of our young writers Room 204 is Writing West Midlands’ It offers writers a year of close contact creative writing activities can positively had to say; “I really enjoyed hearing writer development programme. Every with the organisation in the form of 1-1 influence different aspects of well-being other people’s work and doing things year we select fifteen emerging writers meetings, group networking sessions for a young person. I don’t usually do because it’s inspired from the West Midlands to work with and occasional workshops, access me to write different things.” Young us on a programme of creative career to an information-sharing group on Measurement of our ongoing Write Writers’ Summer School participant. development. Facebook and a free place at Writing On! groups will continue through to West Midlands’ annual conference, The March 2015 but so far we have seen a “It’s something I would recommend Rather than a scheme that looks at Writers’ Toolkit. positive difference in young writers who to everyone, even if you just want to improving the quality of their writing, have taken part in the Page Talk Young improve your writing or make some Room 204 selects candidates based The application process is open now Writers’ Week and Festival and our new friends. It was by far one of the on the existing high quality of their and closes on Monday 16 February Young Writers’ Summer School in 2014. best experiences of my life and I would work and their need for support. 2015. do it all over again if I could.” – Page • Life satisfaction increased by 15%, Talk participant. emotional well-being increased by 22% and self-esteem increased by 8% for www.writingwestmidlands.org For more information about our work with young writers: www.writingwestmidlands.org/young-writers-schools/ SHORT & SWEET: A NEW SHORT FICTION EVENT FOR 2015 NEW ONLINE SHOP AVAILABLE! After many conversations with writers The events will be loosely themed, but who are keen to test out new works don’t let that put you off. If you’ve got a Visit our new Online Shop to buy copies And did we mention the West Midlands’ of short fiction in front of an audience, piece that needs airing, drop us a line of A Midlands’ Odyssey, our collection Writers Tea Towel? More items will be we got together with our partners at to book a slot now. Email of commissioned short stories setting added as the year goes on. the Library of Birmingham to design a [email protected]. the Odyssey in the region, and also new event. Hosted by writer and Heart to join our Friends, Supporters and breakfast presenter Rachel New, the Aimed at writers needing a platform Benefactors scheme. events will be open mic. Short & Sweet to test great new work, Short & Sweet will be about sharing stories – short, is also a treat for audiences – come flash or micro fiction – anything that fits along and dip into the five guest pieces To browse the shop, please visit: into a seven minute slot. presented at each event. Full event www.writingwestmidlands.org/shop listings are throughout this brochure. To book a free ticket: www.writingwestmidlands.org/events JANUARY EVENTS JANUARY YOUNG WRITERS’ FOUNDATION GROUP WRITER NETWORKING MORNING: STAFFORD Saturdays 10 January, 11 April, 27 June & 12 September, 11am - 4pm Saturday 24 January, 10.30am - 12.30pm Birmingham City University, Parkside Campus, 5 Cardigan Street, Birmingham, B4 7BD Shire Hall Gallery, Market Square, Stafford, ST16 2LD The Young Writers’ Foundation Group is a creative writing group for anyone aged Join Writing West Midlands staff and guest speakers for an hour of presentations 16 to 20 in the West Midlands.
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