Current Projects

Current Project Management Work includes…

Birmingham Book Festival, Events/Activities Project Management, 2008 – ongoing.

Midland Creative Projects Limited programmes and delivers the annual Birmingham Book Festival and a programme of year round events and activities. This includes working with writers, publishers, venues and other partner organisations. We also manage a volunteer programme and the Friends of the Birmingham Book Festival scheme.

Essex Book Festival - Re-launching of Festival as Independent Arts Organisations, 2010 – 2011.

Midland Creative Projects is working with a group of local people to set up the Essex Book Festival as an independent arts organisation. This new organisation will run the Essex Book Festival from June 2011, with its first festival being Spring 2012. We have negotitated a partnership agreement with the University of Essex and have drafted a GFA application to Arts Council England.

Fantastic Fun With Words (Warwickshire Libraries reading/writing Festival) – Events/Activities Project Management, 2008 – ongoing.

Midland Creative Projects programmes this annual library-based festival and assists with day to day management. This includes working with writers across the West Midlands and liaising with public libraries and other venues. We are currently planning the Festival for October 2011.

Landmark Sonnets – Poetry and Public Art Project working with Carol Ann Duffy, 2010 – ongoing.

Midland Creative Projects is working with England’s Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, and the lettering artist Stephen Raw, to develop this extensive programme of commissioned sonnets. Poems will be developed as pieces of public art and installed in regions across the UK and also in Wales and Scotland.

Ledbury Poetry Festival 2011 (joint Acting Programmer).

Midland Creative Projects Limited will jointly programme the 2011 Ledbury Poetry Festival (with Jo Bell of The Bell Jar) while the Festival’s Director is on maternity leave.

West Midlands Readers’ Network – Activity Project Management, 2008 – ongoing.

Midland Creative Projects Limited delivers all aspects of this reader development programme, from commissioning writers to work with readers’ groups to organising readers’ days. We work particularly closely with public libraries and professional writers in the West Midlands on this project.

Write On! – Learn Programme Project Management, 2008 – ongoing.

Midland Creative Projects Limited manage this major writers in education programme as part of its work for Writing West Midlands. This includes developing projects to bring professional writers into community and schools settings. We typically work with sixty schools a year to deliver this work, and with a team of over thirty emerging or established writers.

Writing West Midlands – Regional Literature Development Agency Management, 2009 – ongoing.

Midland Creative Projects Limited manages all aspects of the work of this agency through a contract of service agreement. This includes advising the Board of Directors on policy and strategy as well as running all activities. We also work closely with partner agencies across the UK.