A poet with punch and a spoken-wordsmith determined to bring poetry to everyone have taken up the mantles of Birmingham’s Poet Laureate and Young Poet
A campaign to find, mentor and publish new writers from communities in Birmingham and the West Midlands that are under-represented on the nation’s bookshelves is launching today.
We’re delighted to reveal this year’s cohort of Room 204 writers-in-development. 14 writers of all genres join the previous 5 years’ worth of writers who’ve
As part of the International Dance Festival Birmingham, we invite you to take part in our Haiku Exchange this May. The Haiku Exchange will take
The West Midlands will be overrun with an army of Shakespeare posties over 24 hours on Friday 22 April and Saturday 23 April, to celebrate
Can you help us celebrate Shakespeare on Saturday 23 April, the 400th anniversary of his death? Do something to be part of this historic day
Boosting the careers of talented West Midlands writers: Room 204 opens for applications Writers across the West Midlands are invited to apply to be part
Saturday 7 November 2015, 9.30am – 4pm, Bramall Music Building, University of Birmingham The annual conference for writers returns to Birmingham at the beginning of
Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September: 11am- 3pm Birmingham’s busy commuter station, Moor Street, will host its first ever Writer in Residence during Birmingham Weekender
The Birmingham Literature Festival is coming up in October, which Writing West Midlands programmes and produces. As you’d expect, there are lots of events for
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