BBC Contains Strong Language festival 2021
Join us in Coventry 23-26 September 2021
TLC Free Reads
Enter your work for a free manuscript appraisal with The Literary Consultancy Deadline: 23 August
National Writers' Conference 2021
Saturday 4 September A day of information, networking, and writing industry experts
Events & Writing Courses
Writers
We run workshops, conferences, residencies and networking throughout the year, as well as the creative development programme Room 204. We hold a range of writing workshops and short courses, as well as host writers from all over the globe.
Young People
Through our Spark Young Writers Programme, we provide schools with writers, run 20 monthly creative writing groups across the west midlands and hold a yearly Summer Writing Challenge.
Readers
Through partnerships with publishers, universities, galleries, libraries and many others, we nurture readers as much as writers.
Celebrating Words
Birmingham Literature Festival runs annually with a full programme, usually in October. For 2020, we ran a series of online workshops, a weekly podcast throughout the autumn, daily poetry readings, and live-streamed events in partnership with Durham Book Festival. The festival will return in 2021.
