Posted By: Katy Carr, 30 March 2011
Writers’ Centre Norwich is delighted that Arts Council England has made us part of its National Portfolio of funded organisations for 2012-15.
Chris Gribble, our CEO says:
"Writers’ Centre Norwich (WCN) is a relatively young organisation, but over the course of the past seven years we have established ourselves as one of the UK’s leading literature development organisations. Working to explore the artistic and social impacts of creative writing and reading WCN is leading the bid for Norwich to become England’s first UNESCO City of Literature, we established Norwich as the first and only UK City of Refuge for exiled writers, we have helped some of the brightest new talents develop their work, engaged thousands of young people each year in a range of in and out of school activities and have welcomed a vast range of talented writers from around the world to Norwich to celebrate the best in world literature.
We are very excited about the coming years. In a challenging economic climate, Arts Council England support will be key to our continued development, and the funding we have been granted for 2012-15 will enable us to consolidate our local, national and international work with partners, audiences, writers and readers alike. We could not work as we do without the commitment of our other key stakeholders, University of East Anglia, Norwich City Council and Norfolk County Council, and we would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support."
