Get a grip…

Despite the inclement weather, we have managed to soldier on at Midland Creative Projects, only closing the office on one day when there was no need for any of us to be in. Our enthusiasm for getting to work has been partly prompted by a flurry of e-mails and calls about various projects, in particular activities linked to our Writing West Midlands’ Learning Programme.

We are now in discussion with schools in Walsall and Northfield about developing bespoke projects and busy preparing a large creative writing project  for a cluster of schools in Nechells. And today we are meeting with the examinations board OCR to discuss a creative writing project linked to their English curriculum.

Planning for the the Birmingham Book Festival are well on the way, particularly for our Spring Thing on Saturday 29th May 2010. We are about to appoint a new PR company to help us with communications, which is very exciting. In the meantime we have a poetry writing workshop with Roz Goddard in early February to promote as well as launching our Writing Squads – our Saturday writing clubs for young people.

More news soon.