With details of the new Creative Producer for Birmingham Literature Festival:
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Shantel Edwards announced as Creative Producer for
Birmingham Literature Festival
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We are delighted to announce that Shantel Edwards
has been appointed as the new Creative Producer / Festival
Director.
A Birmingham native and long time Birmingham
Literature Festival audience member, Shantel joins Writing West
Midlands after a career working within arts in higher education
and completing her PhD in contemporary British literature at the
University of Birmingham.
Jonathan Davidson, Chief Executive of Writing West
Midlands, said:
“We are delighted to have Shantel join our team at
Writing West Midlands and are looking forward to working with
her. The insights and commitment to literature and to Birmingham
and the region that she will bring will be enormously valuable to
our work. And most importantly she is a reader and event-attender
– the perfect combination for someone who will help make our
future editions of the Birmingham Literature Festival.”
Shantel will now begin working with writers, venues,
partner organisations, publishers and producers to programme and
curate the 2020 Birmingham Literature Festival, which will take
place in October in venues across the city. Publishers,
agents and writers who would like to pitch their work are welcome
to email programming@writingwestmidlands.org where
Shantel will be delighted to hear more.
Shantel says:
“As a passionate reader, attending the Birmingham
Literature Festival each year has always been a highlight of
living in Birmingham for me.
“Through the years I have been able to listen to,
and learn from, amazing authors such as Jackie Kay and Diana Evans,
as well as discover new and emerging talent from my home city.
“I have been to festival events that celebrate new
writing, as well as events that have created space for authors
and audiences to discuss contemporary social issues such as
feminism, race and gender and am keen to continue this tradition
of recognising literature’s power to bring people together and
create change within society.”
The Birmingham Literature Festival returns in
October 2020. Full details of events, will be announced in August
2020.
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Writing
West Midlands is an Arts Council England National Portfolio
Organisation.
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MidlandsStudio 130,
ZelligGibb StreetBirmingham, B9
4AT United Kingdom
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