With fantastic news for Newcastle:
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We are
delighted to announce that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has
awarded £5 million of its Cultural Development Fund to support our dream of
creating a centre for writing in Newcastle 🎉
The centre
will be a public building for writers based in the north. It will host
programmes, courses, and events for professional and aspiring writers, for
those who write purely for the love of it and for those who want to try
creative writing for the first time.
It will be
a place for communities across the region to engage with creative writing,
literature and reading. The centre will mean growing New Writing North and
furthering our ambition to nurture writers from across the region. We know
that whilst talent is everywhere the opportunities are not.
The centre
will strengthen Newcastle’s ambitions to become a national hub for writing
and publishing and contribute to its growing status as a creative
industries leader.
We will be
collaborating with our brilliant partners Newcastle City Council, Northumbria University,
Mayor Kim McGuinness, the North
East Combined Authority and many others over the
next few years to shape in greater detail the centre and its programme.
But for
now, this is a huge step in creating a vibrant new cultural space in
Newcastle which will nurture future generations of northern writers!
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“We are
thrilled and excited that central government has chosen to support our
vision for a centre for writing by investing in our region’s cultural
economy and infrastructure. Creative writing is the backbone of the UK’s
world-leading creative industries which employ 2.4 million. It also plays
a vital role in wellbeing and public health. The centre for writing will
provide an opportunity to expand our work with under-served communities
in the region and to work with even more brilliant Northern talent. It will
also bring writers and readers together in a space which celebrates the
power of storytelling.”
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Claire Malcolm, CEO of New Writing North
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