Writers’ Centre Norwich (WCN) is a literary development agency based in England’s first UNESCO City of Literature, Norwich. WCN is passionate about reading, writing and literature in all its forms. Through working with readers, writers, schools, young people and communities WCN aims to encourage and develop the role of literature in people’s lives.

Writers’ Centre Norwich runs events and writing workshops year round, and a wide range of programmes which include writing development programmes, reading projects, peer-led conferences and projects within schools. Through the creative writing workshops and development programmes, WCN nurtures and supports writers at every stage of their career, providing opportunities and professional development within the literary sector. Through WCN’s series of literary events some of the world’s greatest writers, including JM Coetzee and Will Self have visited Norwich.

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The Black Light Engine Room. Literary mag & live event based in Middlesbrough. The mag aims to give a focus for the best in North East art/poetry, while also publishing poets - both Name (Sheenagh Pugh, W.N. Herbert, Sam Hamill) & first-timers from everywhere else - England, Wales, Scotland, Spain, U.S., Mexico etc. The mag comes out 3 times a year & in 2013 we published the first of our Dark Matter series of chapbooks, featuring 2 poets previously in the mag.

Welcome to Free Word, an international organisation dedicated to literature, literacy and free expression. With the help of Fritt Ord, a free expression foundation in Norway, and Arts Council England, Free Word Centre first opened its doors in 2009. It is now home to 6 Residents and over 40 Associates. Free Word is a charity, and it is with the generous support of trusts and individuals that we continue to explore the cultural and political power of words.

Free Word Centre hosts public events all year round, exploring issues in contemporary politics, literature and culture. Among its programme of events are author talks, panel discussions, film screenings, exhibitions, workshops and conferences. Free Word collaborates on a local, national and international level to bring you our three major programmes: The Power of Translation, Living Dangerously: Stories of Climate Change, and Speaking Freely.

PoetryZoo is the evolution of poetry. A new way to write, publish and be read. To connect, read others. Manage your work. A vibrant adaptation using the latest digital tools. It’s about inspiration, stimulation; mutual respect and support. Opportunity. It’s about poetry anywhere, anytime; any device. We believe life is poetry.

PoetryZoo is a creative online environment. From your personal Workspace to your unique Poetry Window, your Poet Profile, responses or social interaction, you can be as dynamic or as still as you want. As connected or private as it takes you.

Event: www.writeoutloud.net/public/eventview.php?eventID=10586

The Indian King Poets, established in the 1990s as part of the year round literatue programme of The Indian King Arts Centre, a community arts centre in Camelford, north Cornwall, continues to meet on most Monday mornings from 10.00-12.30., with an evening off-shoot on Tuesdays from 19.00-21.00. Each session starts with writing, from a visual/aural or verbal prompt; discussion of that writing follows and the session ends with a close critical look at poems in progress brought by participants. Examination of different poetic form happens when interest/need demands.

Contact Helen Jagger Wood on indianking@btconnect.com or 01840 212161 for further details.

Poet in the City creates new audiences for poetry through an eclectic programme of events, commissions and education work.

Literature Works is a registered charity, Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation, and company limited by guarantee set up to enable and nurture literature development activity in South West England: Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, unitary authorities of Bath and North East Somerset, Bournemouth, Bristol, Isles of Scilly, North Somerset, Plymouth, Poole, South Gloucestershire, Swindon and Torbay.

Literature Works is the strategic literature development charity for South West England. We are a National Portfolio Organisation of Arts Council England.

Literature Works’ role is to fundraise for the Grassroots Literature Programme, a support and grant scheme providing small awards for literature activity across the region, and where possible securing funding for larger regional projects with delivery partners, advice, advocacy and partnership.

We also provide a central resource for literature in the South West region and support the wider literature sector through large scale research and evaluation and work as lead partner with Plymouth University on the Literature Fundraising Centre project.

Our mission is to support, understand and advocate for our regional literature sector in all its contexts, for everyone, for all ages, and that sector’s place, growth, relevance and value in a national and international literature development future.

The Charles Causley Trust exists to promote
the work of the late poet Charles Causley.

A central focus of our work is the continued development of Charles Causley’s House in Launceston, Cornwall.

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The Poetry Business is a poetry publisher and writer development agency.

We publish books, pamphlets, audio and eBooks under the Smith/Doorstop imprint; edit a literary magazine, The North; and run Writing Days, masterclasses, residential courses, and a Writing School for published poets. We also run the annual Book & Pamphlet Competition.

Our poets have won or been shortlisted for almost every major poetry prize, including the Forward Prize on 11 occasions and 10 Poetry Book Society awards, and Smith/Doorstop Books was awarded the 2011 Michael Marks Award. Andrew Motion described The Poetry Business as "one of the most vital and vitalising literary organisations in the country".

Our priorities are:

The spreading of interest in contemporary poetry

The encouragement of new writers

The publishing of work of new and established writers

The setting of high artistic standards.

Our Mission

Love poetry? Join the Forward Arts Foundation, a charity committed to widening poetry’s audience, honouring achievement and supporting talent, through National Poetry Day, the Forward Prizes for Poetry and the Forward Book of Poetry, an indispensable annual anthology of the year’s best poems.

Our Purpose

to identify and encourage talent

to inspire a love of poetry in people of all ages and circumstances

to support poets at all stages of their careers

to encourage collaboration with performers, musicians, artists, film-makers and social innovators

Cartwheel Arts promotes social inclusion, cohesion, diversity and regeneration through community participation in vibrant, innovative, high-quality arts projects.

We use a wide range of media to initiate, and respond to, project opportunities in Rochdale and surrounding areas, as well as promoting the development of the arts and examples of good practice across the North West.

GALWAY CITY'S LITERARY EVENTS ORGANISATION:Serving writers and literature fans in the Galway area-poetry readings,fiction readings,poetry workshops, creative writing classes, info on all literature events in Galway City & surrounds.

The Poetry International Foundation is a literary organisation based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and encompassing a number of partner organisations worldwide. It aims to present quality poetry from the Netherlands and worldwide to an international readership, encouraging poetry translation, stimulating the international exchange of knowledge about poetry, and facilitating an international community of poetry readers.

The main activities of Poetry International are the Poetry International Festival, established in 1970, the Poetry International website and National Poetry Day in Netherlands and Flanders. The analogue archive of the Foundation is currently being digitised, and will be integrated with the material on the Poetry International website. The Foundation also participates in Netherlands-based projects such as education programmes and poetry awards.

What is Litfest?

Litfest develops writers, engages readers and audiences, and celebrates literary excellence. We do this through our annual literature festival which has been staged since 1978 and a range of other publishing, development and participatory projects that have positioned the organisation at the heart of Lancashire’s cultural and creative activity.

The UK's poetry slam people, making new champions and promoting the best in touring Spoken Word.

Events held in: Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Hackney, Oxford & Waterloo

The Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX) and the Spanish Association of Publishers Guilds (FGEE) have developed the campaign America Reads Spanish, aimed to increase the use and reading of our language through thousands of libraries, schools and book stores in the US.

America Reads Spanish believes that the Spanish language will enhance the communication between cultures at a time when it is of utmost importance to understand and enrich everyone's perception of the global reality.

Poetry Can was established in March 1995 as a registered charity aiming to encourage as many people as possible within the Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire areas to get involved in poetry activity.

Poetry Can is still based in Bristol but now supports the development of poetry across the whole of the South West region.

The Dead Good Poets Society is based in Liverpool and exists to promote poetry through performance and to encourage the development of new poets and audiences

Apples and Snakes is England’s leading organisation for performance poetry and spoken word, with a national reputation for producing exciting, engaging and transformative work in performance and participation.

In partnership with Destiny Church, Louis Kasatkin and Howard Frost are pioneering a new literary arts initiative for Wakefield with public, community and schools poetry workshops, performances and publications.