"The Warwick Writing Programme is bridging the divide between academic and creative writing. I came here because I believe in what it is doing."
- Salman Rushdie

The central tenet of the Warwick Writing Programme is that all writing, at its best, is creative writing. The Warwick Writing Programme is the largest and most comprehensive project of its kind in Europe and is an internationally-acclaimed programme drawing students and staff from across the globe.

 There are the five key parts of our project:

• teaching academic and creative writing using new and established practice;
• leading international research in writing through our own practice, through major conferences, and by creating debate through the newspapers and media;
• showing scientists and business-people even better ways of writing and communicating their findings;
• creating positive and permanent links to writers and readers of the Midlands through outreach to schools and a year-round festival of visiting writers;
• creating international partnerships with educational institutions, writers' organisations and publishers.

Faculty include Maureen Freely, David Morley, A.L. Kennedy, China Mieville, Will Eaves, Michael Hulse, Jeremy Treglown, Peter Blegvad and George Ttoouli (Honorary Teaching Fellows), Anna Lea, Leila Rasheed, Dragan Todorovic, Tim Leach, novelist Jonathan Coe (Honorary Professor), Elizabeth Speller and Anna Reynolds (Royal Literary Fund Fellow) and Rochelle Sibley who leads up The Writing Centre. Visiting Fellows have included Monica Ali, Candida Clark, Geoffrey Hill, Mario Vargas Llosa, Maggie O'Farrell and Wole Soyinka.

• Listen to our Writers at Warwick archive and app

• Follow the progress of the Warwick Prize for Writing
• Visit The Writers Room - the first purpose-built space for writers in a UK university
• Listen to our creative writing podcasts Writing Challenges and get writing
• Join our Facebook group to get the latest news on events and to suggest ideas
• Take part in our visiting writers series

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