Type Of Publisher
Press
Genres Published
Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry
Year Established
2007
Address
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Name
Henderson Mullin
Title
CEO
Email
Mission Statement / Editorial Focus
Writing East Midlands is the literature development agency for the region (UK). We support writers at all 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, organising 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 believe passionately that engaging with literature, innovatively, can bring people from different backgrounds closer together. Our activities create safe spaces where professional and emerging writers work with participants to explore their stories, inspiring people to traverse memories and culture and find new ways to share their hopes, fears and aspirations. We have worked to increase access to creative activities amongst Roma communities, refugee and migrant communities, women escaping domestic abuse, offenders, older people and Autistic people. And we run writers groups, dens, and projects to inspire the next generation of children and young people. Some of our projects and residences produce anthologies of work that we publish plus a bi-annual e-zine.
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions
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