UNESCO City of Literature Bid Appendices

Appendices Appendix I Letters of endorsement Appendix II Partnerships Appendix III A world centre for creative writing and translation Appendix IV Writers’ Centre Norwich

Appendix V A world of libraries and living museums Appendix VI Words about art Appendix VII Wider literary landscapes Appendix VIII Publishing and print Appendix IX A tale of two cities

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Management Group

Steering Committee

Chris Gribble Chief Executive, Writers’ Centre Norwich.

Brian Ayers Director, The Butrint Foundation (UNESCO World Heritage Site), archaeologist, historian and writer.

Robert McCrum Chair, Writers’ Centre Norwich.

Graham Creelman Vice Chair, Writers’ Centre Norwich.

Magdalen Russell Bid Writer.

Keith Bartlett Deputy Principal, Norwich University College of the Arts.

Tim Bishop Head of BBC East.

Liz Calder Co-founder Bloomsbury Publishing: co-founder Full Circle Editions: founder and President, Paraty International Literary Festival, Brazil.

Professor Jon Cook Former Dean, Arts and Humanities, University of East Anglia: Chair, Arts Council England East.

Professor William Pope Chair, East of England Development Agency Professor Giles Foden Writer and Professor of Creative Writing, University of East Anglia.

Dr. Ian Gibson Science writer, former Member of Parliament for Norwich North: former Dean of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia.

Chris Gribble Chief Executive, Writers’ Centre Norwich.

Jan Holden Assistant Head of Service, Norfolk Library and Information Services: Chair, UK Social Exclusion Network.

Baroness Hollis of Heigham Writer, historian and politician: former leader of Norwich City Council.

Dr. Valerie Henitiuk Director, British Centre for Literary Translation.

Caroline Jarrold Community Affairs Adviser, Jarrold: Secretary and Trustee of the John Jarrold Trust: Chair of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.

Richard Jewson Chair, Archant (UK’s largest independent regional media business): Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk.

Councillor Steve Morphew Former Leader, Norwich City Council.

Andrea Stark Executive Director, Arts Council England East and South East.

David White Chief Executive, Norfolk County Council.

Contents Appendix I Letters of endorsement

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Appendix III A world centre for creative writing and translation

i UEA School of Literature, Creative Writing and Drama alumni ii UEA School of Literature, Creative Writing and Drama faculty iii UEA fellowships iv UEA/BCLT translation programme

Appendix IV Writers’ Centre Norwich

i Writers’ Centre Norwich programme ii Worlds Festival iii Norwich City of Refuge iv Shahrazad v The digital challenge vi International Centre for Writing

Appendix V A world of libraries and living museums

i Norfolk Library and Information Services ii Social Exclusion Network iii The Archive Centre iv Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service

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Left: Landmarks of Norwich.

Appendix VI Words about art

i The Forum ii Norwich University College of the Arts iii Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

Appendix VII Wider literary landscapes

i Memorials and monuments ii Theatres and festivals iii Norfolk Children’s Book Centre

Appendix VIII Publishing and print

i Publishing ii Print iii Bookselling

Appendix IX A tale of two cities

i A knowledge economy ii Education profile iii Geographical breakdown of top language requests iv Organisations engaged with minorities and diversity v CUE East vi Creative Arts East

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Left: Print block, John Jarrold Printing Museum, Norwich.

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Appendix I

Letters of endorsement i ii

Secretary of State Lord Mayor of Norwich

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Both pages: Letter of Endorsement from Secretary of State.

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Left: Letter of Endorsement from Lord Mayor of Norwich.

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Appendix II

Partnerships The bid for Norwich to become a UNESCO City of Literature is being led by the Writers’ Centre Norwich in partnership with Archant media group Arts Council England BBC East British Centre for Literary Translation Creative Arts East CUE East East Anglian Writers East of England Development Agency East of England Production Innovation Centre Heritage Economic and Regeneration Trust Jarrold Group Live Norfolk: Cultural Forum New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership Norfolk County Council Norfolk Library and Information Service Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service Norfolk and Norwich Festival Norwich Arts Centre Norwich Cathedral and the Julian Centre Norwich City College Norwich City Council Norwich Playhouse Norwich University College of the Arts The Norwich Society The British Council The Stationery Office University of East Anglia Visit Norwich and Visit Norfolk Tourism

The International Cities of Refuge Network, the Arvon Foundation, the National Association for Literature Development, the National Association of Writers in Education and the Free Word Centre have pledged active support.

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UEA School of Literature, Creative Writing and Drama alumni

Below is a list, in alphabetical order, of prize-winning alumni from the School of Literature, Creative Writing and Drama. Hundreds more graduate novelists, poets, children’s writers and playwrights have been published or produced for theatre, film and TV. Alderman, Naomi (MA 2003) David Higham Award winner (2002) Disobedience (2006) – Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award (2007); Waterstone’s 25 Authors for the Future (2007); Orange Broadband Prize for New Writers (2006); Glen Dimplex Award shortlist (2006) Allan, Clare (MA 2000) Poppy Shakespeare (2006) – Orange Broadband Award for New Writers shortlist; Arts Foundation Fellowship shortlist (2007), Guardian Book Prize Shortlist.

Allan, Nicholas (MA 1981) 50 picture books for children, including Where Willy Went (2006)

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Almond, David (BA 1973) Skellig (1998) – Carnegie Medal winner (1998); Whitbread Children’s Book Award winner (1998); Carnegie of Carnegies shortlist (2007) Kit’s Wilderness (1999) – Nestle Smarties Book Prize (1999); Michael L. Printz Award (USA 2001); Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize shortlist (1999); Carnegie Medal shortlist (2000) Heaven Eyes (2000) – Whitbread Children’s Book Award shortlist (2000); Carnegie Medal shortlist (2000) The Fire-Eaters (2003) – Nestle Smarties Book Prize winner (2003); Whitbread Children’s Book Award winner (2003); Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (USA 2004); Carnegie Medal shortlist (2003); Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize shortlist (2003) Clay (2005) – Carnegie Medal shortlist (2006); Costa Children’s Book Award shortlist Aw, Tash (MA 2003) The Harmony Silk Factory (2005) – Whitbread Prize First Novel winner (2005); Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Novel winner (2005); The Booker Prize shortlist (2005); International Impac Dublin Award longlist (2007) Azzopardi, Trezza (MA 1998) The Hiding Place (2000) – Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (2001); James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Novel shortlist (2000); The Booker Prize shortlist (2000) Remember Me (2004) – Arts Council Wales Book of the Year shortlist (2005) Batchelor, Paul (MA 2000) The Sinking Road (2008) – Glen Dimplex New Writers Award for Poetry shortlist (2008); Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize shortlist (2008) Winner – The Times Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation (2009) Winner – Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition (2009)

Block, Brett Ellen (MA 1998) Destination Known (2001) – Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner (2001) Bowker, Peter (MA 1991) Credits include Wuthering Heights (ITV, 2009) Bowler, Tim (BA 1972) River Boy (1997) – Carnegie Medal Best Novel winner (1998) Boyne, John (MA 1995) The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas (2006) – CBI Bisto Book of the Year (2007); Irish Book Award: People’s Choice Award Book of the Year (2007); Irish Book Award: Children’s Book of the Year (2007); WH Smith Children’s Book of the Year shortlist (2007); the Ottakar’s Children’s Book Prize shortlist (2007); the Prix Farmiente shortlist (Belgium, 2007); the Paolo Ungari Award (Italy, 2006); Borders Originial Voices shortlist (USA, 2006) Brar, Amman (Paul) (MA 2004) Writer in residence, Tamasha Theatre Company Braun, Harriet (MA 1993) Credits include Lip Service (BBC3, 2010) Bridgeman, Laura (MA 2003) Credits include ID 1000 (The National Youth Theatre, 2007) Campbell, Aifric (MA 2003, PhD 2007) The Semantics of Murder (2008) – Glen Dimplex New Writers Award shortlist (2008) Cartright, Anthony (BA, 1996) The Afterglow (2004) – Betty Trask Award (2004); James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist (2004);

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Chevalier, Tracy (MA 1994) Girl With a Pearl Earring (1999) Remarkable Creatures (2009) IMPAC Dublin Literary Award longlist (2010) Clare, Tim (MA 2004) We Can’t All Be Astronauts (2009) East Anglian Book Awards Best Biography / Memoir (2009) Cleminshaw, Suzanne (PhD 1991) The Great Ideas (1999) – Whitbread First Novel Award shortlist (1999) Concoran, Josephine (MA 1997) Algebra – first prize in the Ian St James’ Awards, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (1998) Corbett, Sarah (MA 1998) The Red Wardrobe (1998) - Forward Prize shortlist (1998); TS Eliot Prize shortlist (1998) Cowan, Andrew (MA 1985) Pig (1994) – Betty Trask Award (1994); Authors’ Club First Novel (1994); Ruth Hadden Memorial Award (1994); Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year (1994); Scottish Arts Council Book Award (1995); Saltire Society First Book Award shortlist (1994); Yorkshire Post Best First Novel shortlist (1994); The David Higham Prize for Fiction shortlist (1994); The Hawthornden Prize shortlist (1995); The Steinbeck Award shortlist (1995) What I Know (2005) – Arts Council Writers’ Award (2004) Craib, Ben (MA 2009) Winner Menagerie Theatre Company New Writing Competition (2009) Writer in Development, Half Moon Young People’s Theatre (2010) Founding director, Alleycat Theatre Company (2010) Cross, Helen (MA 1997) My Summer of Love (2001) – Betty Trask Award (2002)

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Crowe, Emma (MA 2005) Finalist in The Play’s The Thing (Channel 4, 2006) Dafydd, Fflur (MA 2000) Atyniad (2006) – winner Prose Medal, National Eisteddfod of Wales (2006) Twenty Thousand Saints (2008) – winner Oxfam Hay Prize for Emerging Writers (2009) Y Llyfrgell (2010) - winner of the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize (2009) Dafydd, Sian Melangell (MA 2006) Y Trydydd Peth (2009) – winner Prose Medal, National Eisteddfod of Wales (2009) Daley-Clarke, Donna (MA 2001) A Lazy Eye (2005) – Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book (2006) Darby, Katy (MA 2006) David Higham Award (2005) Davis, Deborah (MA 2001) Credits include Balance of Power (BBC Radio 4 10-part drama series) Doughty, Louise (MA 1987) Whatever You Love (2010) Costa Novel Award shortlist (2010) Dunthorne, Joe (MA 2005) Curtis Brown Prize winner (2005) Submarine (2008) – Dylan Thomas Prize longlist (2008); Desmond Elliot Prize shortlist (2008); Wodehouse Bolinger Prize shortlist (2008); Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book shortlist (2009); Wales Book of the Year longlist (2009) Faber New Poets 5 (2010) Edwards, Richard (MA 2003) Credits include A Year of Your Love (London Independent Film Festival, 2009)

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Emanuel, Oliver (MA 2002) Credits include Flit (National Theatre of Scotland) Enright, Anne (MA 1987) The Portable Virgin (1991) – Rooney Prize What Are You Like (2000) – Whitbread Best Novel shortlist (2000); Encore Award Winner The Gathering (2007) – Man Booker Prize winner (2007); Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction shortlist (2008) Evans, Diana (MA 2003) 26a (2005) – Betty Trask Award (2005); Orange Broadband Prize for New Writers (2005); Whitbread Prize First Novel shortlist (2005); Arts Council Decibel Writer of the Year Award (2006); Guardian First Book Award shortlist; Arts Foundation Fellowship shortlist (2007) Falconer, Alison (MA 2008) Credits include Theatrescience commission (2010) Faqir, Fadia (first PhD in creative writing - 1990) Pillars of Salt (1996); ALOA Literary Award shortlist (Denmark, 2001) Fish, Laura (MA 2002, PhD 2007) Strange Music (2008) - Orange Prize for Fiction longlist (2009) Fisher, Max (MA 2003) Credits include The Great British Citizenship Test (Screen East New Voices 2003) Fletcher, Susan (MA 2002) Eve Green (2004) – Whitbread First Novel Award (2004); Betty Trask Prize (2005) Oystercatchers (2007) – Romantic Novel of the Year Award shortlist (2008); Dylan Thomas Prize Longlist (2008) Corrag (2010) – John Llewellyn Rhys prize shortlist (2010) Flusfeder, David (MA 1988) Like Plastic (1996) – The Encore Award

Foster, Stephen (MA 1998) It Cracks Like Breaking Skin (1999) – MacMillan PEN Award shortlist (1999) Foulds, Adam (MA 2000) The Truth About These Strange Times (2007) - Betty Trask Award (2007); Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award (2008); Desmond Elliott Prize shortlist (2008) The Broken Word (2008) – Costa Poetry Award (2008); Jerwood Aldeburgh Prize (2008); Somerset Maugham Award (2009); John Llewellyn Rhys Prize shortlist (2008); Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award shortlist (2009) The Quickening Maze (2009) – Man Booker Prize shortlist (2009); South Bank Show literature prize winner (2010); Walter Scott Prize shortlist (2010); IMPAC Dublin Literary Award longlist (2010) Gabriel, Sarah (MA 1996) Eating Pomegranates:A Memoir of Mothers, Daughters and Genes (2009)

Gray, Nigel (MA 1984) The Rebels and the Hostage (1978) – North West Arts Award winner Greenwood, Bel (MA 2005) Community theatre commission (2007); Escalator Award winner 2009 Habila, Helon (PhD 2008) Waiting for an Angel (2002) – Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book Hanif, Mohammed (MA 2005) A Case of Exploding Mangoes (2008) – Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book (2009); Winner Corine International Book Award (2009); James Tait Black Prize shortlist (2009); Guardian First Book Award shortlist (2008); Man Booker Prize longlist (2008)

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Harper, Graeme (aka Brooke Biaz, PhD 1997) Black Cat, Green Field (1998) – National Book Council Award for New Fiction (Australia, 1998); NSW Premier’s Award (Australia, 1998)

Jackson, Mick (MA 1992) The Underground Man (1997) – Society of Authors First Novel Award winner (1997); Booker Prize shortlist (1997); Whitbread First Novel Award shortlist (1997)

Harris, Jane (MA 1992, PhD 1995) The Observations (2006) – Waterstone’s Newcomer of the Year Best Novel shortlist; Waterstone’s 25 Authors for the Future (2007); Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Best Novel shortlist; Glen Dimplex Award shortlist (2006)

James, Christopher (MA 2000) Eric Gregory Award 2002 National Poetry Award winner 2008 Jenkins, Janette (MA 1995) Another Elvis Love Child (2002) – Amazon Second Novel Award shortlist (2002)

Hirson, Denis (PhD 2004) White Scars (2006) – runner-up SA Sunday Times Alan Paton Non-Fiction Prize 2007 Hogan, Edward (MA 2004) David Higham Award winner (2003) Blackmoor (2008) – Desmond Elliott Prize shortlist (2009); Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist (2008); Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award shortlist (2009) Hughes, Kathryn (MA 1986) George Eliot: The Last Victorian (1999) – James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography Ishiguro, Kazuo (MA 1980) An Artist of the Floating World (1986) – Whitbread Prize Best Novel winner (1986); The Booker Prize shortlist (1986) The Remains of the Day (1989) – The Booker Prize winner (1989) The Unconsoled (1995) – Whitbread Prize Best Novel shortlist (1995) When We Were Orphans (2000) – Whitbread Prize Best Novel shortlist (2000); The Booker Prize shortlist (2000) Never Let Me Go (2005) – James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Novel shortlist (2005); Booker Prize shortlist (2005); Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Novel shortlist (2006) Ivory, Helen Eric Gregory Award (1999)

Jensen, Marie-Louise (BA 1986) Between Two Seas (2008) – Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize shortlist (2008) The Lady In The Tower (2009) – Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize shortlist (2009) Jordan, Meirion (MA 2008) Moonrise (2008) – Forward Prize Best First Collection (2009) Stranger’s Hall (2009) – East Anglian Book Awards shortlist (2009) Joseph, Anjali (MA 2008, current PhD) Saraswati Park (2010) – The Hindu Best Fiction Award shortlist (2010), Desmond Elliott prize winner (2011) Karnezis, Panos (MA 2000) The Maze (2004) – Whitbread Prize First Novel shortlist (2004) Kilalea, Katharine (MA 2006) One Eye’d Leigh – Dylan Thomas Prize longlist (2010) Kinsman, Rob (MA 2003) Credits include High Hopes (BBC Radio 4, 2010) Lai, Larissa (MA 2001) When Fox is a Thousand (1995) – Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award shortlist Salt Fish Girl: A Novel (2002) – Sunburst Award shortlist; Tiptree Award shortlist

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Lal, Judith (MA 2001) Eric Gregory Award (2002)

Solar Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing winner (2010)

Laurens, Joanna (MA 2003) Credits include The Three Birds (Gate Theatre, London, 2000) – winner Time Out Most Outstanding New Talent; winner Critics’ Circle Theatre Award Most Promising Playwright; Five Gold Rings (Almeida Theatre, London, 2003) – winner Pearson Award (2003)

McNay, Mark (MA 2004) Fresh (2007) – Arts Foundation Prize for New Fiction winner (2007); Glen Dimplex New Writer of the Year Award shortlist (2007); Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award shortlist (2007); McKitterick Prize shortlist (2007)

Liardet, Frances (MA 1998) The Game (1996) – Betty Trask Award 1997

Miller, Andrew (MA 1990) Ingenious Pain (1997) – James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Novel (1997); Italian Grinzane Cavour Prize (1997); International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (1999) Oxygen (2001) – Whitbread Best Novel shortlist (2001); Booker Prize shortlist (2001)

Madden, Deirdre (MA 1985) The Birds of the Innocent Wood (1988) – Somerset Maugham Prize One by One in the Darkness (1996) – Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Best Novel Molly Fox’s Birthday (2008) - Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist (2009) McEwan, Ian (MA 1971) The Comfort of Strangers (1981) – Booker Prize shortlist (1981) The Child in Time (1987) – Whitbread Prize Best Novel winner (1987) Black Dogs (1992) – Booker Prize shortlist (1992) Enduring Love (1997) – James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Novel shortlist (1997); Whitbread Prize Best Novel shortlist (1997) Amsterdam (1998) – Booker Prize winner (1998) Atonement (2001) – James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Novel shortlist (2001); Whitbread Prize Best Novel shortlist (2001); Booker Prize shortlist (2001); WH Smith Literary Prize; National Book Critics Circle Award winner; Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction; Santiago Prize for the European Novel Saturday (2005) – James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Novel (2005); Booker Prize shortlist (2005) On Chesil Beach (2007) – Reader’s Digest Author of the Year Award (2008); Galaxy Book of the Year (2008); Man Booker Prize shortlist (2007)

Morgan, Esther (MA 1998) Beyond Calling Distance (2001) – Eric Gregory Award (1998); Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Best First Collection Award (2002); John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize (2002); East England Arts’ Six of the Best Award (2002); Winner Bridport Poetry Prize (2010).

Grace (2011) – TS Eliot short list (2011) Morton-Smith, Tom (BA 2002) Credits include 12 Metres from the Seabed (350 from the Shore) (Globe Theatre, 2007) Mukherjee, Neel (MA 2001) A Life Apart (2010) previously published in India as Past Continuous – co-winner Vodafone-Crossword Award (2008); shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature (2010) Murray, Paul (MA 2001) An Evening of Long Goodbyes (2003) – Whitbread Prize First Novel shortlist (2003) Kerry Irish Fiction Award shortlist (2003) Skippy Dies (2009) – Bollinger Everyman Wodenhouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel shortlist (2010); Man Booker Prize longlist (2010); Costa Novel Award shortlist (2010)

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Murray, Tiffany (MA 1999, PhD 2006) Happy Accidents (2004) – Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel shortlist (2005) Diamond Star Halo (2010) – Bollinger Everyman Wodenhouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel shortlist (2010) Newman, Sandra (MA 2000) The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done (2002) – Guardian First Book Award shortlist Ockrent, Ben (MA 2006) Credits include Honey for Tricycle Theatre (2009) Okoh, Janice (MA 2008) Credits include SE8 (BBC Radio 4, 2010) Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting (2011) Page, Jeremy (MA 1994) Salt (2007) – Jelf First Novel Award shortlist (2007); Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book shortlist (2007) The Wake (2009) East Anglian Book Awards winner, Fiction (2009) Page, Kathy (MA 1988) The Story of My Face (2002) – The Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist (2002), Patterson, Glenn (MA 1986) Burning Your Own (1988) – Betty Trask Award (1988); Rooney Prize (1989) Phelps, Stephen (MA 2003) Credits include The World in a Briefcase (BBC Radio 4 documentary) Rees, Eleanor (MA 2002) Feeding Fire (2001) – Eric Gregory Award (2002) Andraste’s Hair (2007) – Forward Prize Best First Collection shortlist (2007)

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Reeves, Emma (MA 2001) Credits include Tracy Beaker Returns (BBC, 2010) Rice, Ben (MA 2000) Pobby and Dingan (2000) – Somerset Maugham Award (2000); Mail on Sunday/ John Llewellyn Rhys Prize shortlist (2001) Riviere, Sam (current PhD) Eric Gregory Award 2009 Faber New Poets 7 (2010) Scarrow, Simon (MA 1992) International bestselling Roman fiction, 16th in series: Gladiator: Fight for Freedom (2011) Schabas, Martha (MA 2007) David Higham Award (2006) Scudamore, James (MA 2004) The Amnesia Clinic (2006) – Costa First Novel Award shortlist (2006); EDS Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist (2006); Glen Dimplex New Writers Award shortlist (2006); Somerset Maugham Award winner (2007); Commonwealth Writers’ Prize shortlist (2007) Heliopolis (2009) – Man Booker Prize longlist (2009) Sheal, Alex (MA 2006) David Higham Award winner (2004) The New Writer international prize for contemporary fiction winner (2008) Sheers, Owen (MA 1998) The Blue Book (2000) – Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection) shortlist (2000); Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year shortlist (2001) The Dust Diaries (2004) – Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award (2005); Ondaatje Prize shortlist (2005) Skirrid Hill (2005) – Somerset Maugham Award (2006) Resistance (2008) – Writers’ Guild Best Book Award shortlist (2008)

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Simmonds, Kathryn (MA 2002) Sunday at the Skin Launderette (2008) – Forward Prize Best First Collection (2008); Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection (2008); Glen Dimplex New Writers Award shortlist (2008); Guardian First Book Award longlist (2008); Costa Poetry Award shortlist (2008) Smith, Rob Magnuson (MA 2010) David Higham Award (2009) The Gravedigger (2010) – William Faulkner Award winner (2004) Teasdale, Ben (MA 1997) Credits include The Baader-Meinhof Gang Show (Channel 4) Thorpe, Lorna (MA 2000) Dancing to Motown (2005) – Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice Topolski, Carol (MA 2004) Monster Love (2008) – Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction shortlist (2008); Guildford Book Festival First Novel Award shortlist (2008) Tremain, Rose (BA 1967) The Colonel’s Daughter and Other Stories (1984) - Dylan Thomas Award winner (1984) The Swimming Pool Season (1985) – Angel Literary Award (1985) Restoration (1989) – Angel Literary Award (1989); Sunday Express Book of the Year (1989); Booker Prize shortlist (1990) Sacred Country (1992) – James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1992); Prix Fémina Etranger (France 1993) Music and Silence (1999) – Whitbread Novel Award winner (1999) The Colour (2003) – Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist (2004) The Road Home (2007) – Orange Broadband Prize Winner (2008) Trespass (2010) – Man Booker Prize longlist (2010)

Tuckett, Jennifer (MA 2004) Credits include Ron’s Pig Palace on Wheels, Premio Candino Arta Terma (Italy) (2005) Warner, Tom (MA 2001) Eric Gregory Award 2001 Faber New Poets 8 (2010) Whitaker, Phil (MA 1996) Eclipse of the Sun (1997) – John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winner Triangulation (1999) – Encore Award winner Whitfield, Kit (MA 2000) Bareback (2006) – Author’s Club Best First Novel Award shortlist (2006) Wigfall, Clare (MA 2000) The Loudest Sound and Nothing (2007) – BBC National Short Story Winner (2008) Wilson, D.W. (MA 2010, current PhD) Man Booker Scholarship Winner, BBC National Short Story Competition (2011)

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UEA School of Literature, Creative Writing and Drama faculty

The School of Literature, Creative Writing and Drama has a long-established international reputation in literary studies, particularly for its pioneering courses in creative writing. The School encompasses a wide range of creative and critical activities, and it is this conjunction of criticism and creativity that characterises its unique approach to the study of literature and writing. The School has strong interests in contemporary writing, in understanding the importance and function of literature, and writing more generally, in the world today. As part of that understanding, it also has a strong commitment to historical and critical engagements with literature of all periods.

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Rachel Hore Author who worked in publishing for many years before joining UEA to teach the MA in Publishing.

Kathryn Hughes Professor of Lifewriting, Convenor of the MA in Lifewriting and a prize-winning biographer.

Jacob Huntley Graduate of the UEA Creative Writing MA and PhD and Convenor of the undergraduate Creative Writing BA. Jean McNeil Originally from Nova Scotia, Canada, author of nine books, teaches short fiction on the Creative Writing MA.

Current Faculty of Creative Writing

Antionette Moses Playwright and children’s writer.

Trezza Azzopardi Lecturer in Creative Writing, prize-winning novelist and graduate of the UEA Creative Writing MA.

Michele Roberts Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing and novelist, teaches the MA in Lifewriting.

Amit Chaudhuri Professor of Literature and author of numerous works, including five novels, a book of short stories, a book of poems, a critical study of DH Lawrence’s poetry, and the collection of essays Clearing Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture.

Rebecca Stott Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, novelist and academic.

Andrew Cowan Director of Creative Writing, prize-winning novelist and Convenor of the MA (Prose Fiction).

Giles Foden Professor of Creative Writing, author of The Last King of Scotland, released as an Oscar-winning film in 2007.

Lavinia Greenlaw Professor of Creative Writing, Convenor of the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry), prize-winning poet, novelist and playwright.

George Szirtes Reader in Creative Writing and a major British (Hungarian-born) prize-winning poet.

Val Taylor Director, writer, critic, script development consultant for theatre, film, television and radio, convenes the MA in Creative Writing (Scriptwriting).

Steven Waters Playwright and writer for radio and screen.

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Former Faculty of Creative Writing Malcolm Bradbury Co-founded (with Angus Wilson) the UEA Creative Writing MA in 1970, the first course of its kind in the UK. Knighted for services to literature in 2000.

Angela Carter Taught the MA in Prose Fiction between 1980 and 1987, numbering Booker Prize-winners Kazuo Ishiguro and Anne Enright amongst her many students. One of the most influential and widely studied 20th century writers, she died in 1992 aged 51.

Richard Holmes Director of the Lifewriting MA between 2001 and 2006, Fellow of the British Academy and one of UEA’s Distinguished Writing Fellows.

Andrew Motion Succeeded Malcolm Bradbury as Professor of Creative Writing from 1995 until 2002, during which time he was appointed Poet Laureate, succeeding Ted Hughes.

Knighted for services to literature in 2009.

Denise Riley Professor of English Literature, poet, critic, scholar and Director of the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry).

WG ‘Max’ Sebald One of the most important writers of the late 20th century. Joined UEA in 1970 as a lecturer in German Literature, became Professor of European Literature in 1987, founded the British Centre for Literary Translation in 1989 and taught on the MA in Creative Writing until his death in 2001, aged 57.

Rose Tremain Prize-winning novelist, graduated from UEA in 1967 and subsequently returned to teach on the Creative Writing MA between 1988 and 1995. One of UEA’s Distinguished Writing Fellows.

Angus Wilson Co-founded (with Malcolm Bradbury) the UEA Creative Writing MA in 1970. Knighted for services to literature in 1980.

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UEA fellowships

Since the inception of the Creative Writing MA, the school of Literature, Creative Writing and Drama has been host to numerous practising novelists, poets, dramatists and translators as Writing Fellows. Through the generosity of private benefactors the School is able to host the Charles Pick and David TK Wong Fellowships, worth £10,000 and £26,000 respectively. The Royal Literary Fund currently supports two Writing Fellows, while Writers’ Centre Norwich in association with Arts Council England, supported the long-running UEA Writing Fellowship. The British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) hosts two Translators in Residence in the Spring semester with the support of the Charles Wallace India Trust, and other Writing Fellows are appointed by the School, most recently Nancy Lee as the Canadian Writing Fellow, Helon Habila as the African Writing Fellow, and the Australian scholar and novelist Catherine Cole as a Teaching Fellow. The School has also appointed six Distinguished Writing Fellows with a longstanding connection to UEA and an international reputation: Louis de Bernières, Richard Holmes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Graham Swift and Rose Tremain.

The Charles Pick Fellowship The Charles Pick Fellowship is dedicated to the memory of the distinguished publisher and literary agent, Charles Pick. Well known for encouraging young writers at the start of their careers, with introductions to other writers and practical and financial help, this Fellowship seeks to continue this spirit of encouragement by giving support to the work of a new and, as yet, unpublished writer of fictional or non-fictional prose. Its dual purpose is to give promising writers the opportunity to complete a major work and to develop his/her talents.

The David TK Wong Fellowship The David TK Wong Fellowship is a unique and generous annual award of £26,000 to enable a fiction writer who wants to write in English about the Far East to spend time at UEA. The Fellowship is named for its sponsor Mr David Wong, a retired Hong Kong businessman, who has also been a teacher, journalist and senior civil servant, and is a writer of short stories himself. The Fellowship was launched in 1997 and the most recent David TK Wong Fellow, Cab Tran, was born in the village of Vam Cong in Vietnam.

Royal Literary Fund Fellows The Royal Literary Fund (RLF) is a charity, founded in 1790, for the relief of poor and distressed authors, but also to aid the advancement of public education. An RLF Fellowship lasts for one academic year – UEA hosts two such fellowships a year – and involves one-to-one tutorials, which help students develop their academic and writing skills. The rest of the week is free for the Fellow to concentrate on her or his own work.

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UEA/BCLT translation programme

The British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) is Britain’s leading centre for the development, promotion and support of literary translation. Founded in 1989 by the late WG (‘Max’) Sebald, it is based at UEA and supported by Arts Council England.

BCLT offers support and continuing professional development to literary translators at all stages of their career; develops new audiences through events and publications; provides information and advice; stimulates public awareness and interest in literary translation, and generates and encourages academic debate. BCLT is a member of the international RECIT network of literary translation centres and works closely with regional, national and international partners including the Translators Association and English PEN. MA in Literary Translation The MA in Literary Translation is unique in that it both combines translation practice with translation theory and also specifically looks at the link between the two. Recently described by external examiner Dr Francis Jones as “deservedly a UK leader in literary translation studies” many of its students go on to become practising translators, teachers in translation or to work in publishing or the media.

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Writers’ Centre Norwich programme

Writers’ Centre Norwich (WCN) works with writers from around the world including, in recent months alone, JM Coetzee, Ian McEwan, Les Murray, Neel Mukherjee, Michelle de Krester, Chloe Hooper, Kate Kilalea, Zoe Wicomb.

WCN has been awarded one of three national trial programmes funded by Arts Council England - the Well Versed Project, which aims to transform young people’s experience of learning poetry in schools. It includes –– Professional development for poets and live literature artists –– Professional development for teachers –– A poetry programme both in and out of schools –– FE/HE engagement with poetry – especially focused on teacher training Since 2006, WCN’s Escalator talent development programme has mentored 62 emerging writers. In 2010, Escalator produced five writers with shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Another ten emerging talents will be selected in January 2012.

WCN runs a year-round programme of readings and creative writing courses for people across all levels of ability and a wide range of literature development projects designed to reach children in schools, disenfranchised young people and some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people in communities across the region. In partnership with Norwich City College, WCN supports a Level 3 Creative Writing Diploma for 18+ students from a wide range of backgrounds. In its first pioneering year, four college graduates advanced to university-level creative writing courses.

In 2008, the Jarrold Group made a commitment to place art at the centre of the re-development of their historic site, St. James Place. Facilitated by WCN, a Renga word-map (a 1,000 year-old Japanese form of shared writing) was the first work commissioned for the new St. James Collection.

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Worlds Festival

WCN has created the much prized Worlds Festival, a series of international dialogues and public events that have brought together some of the most eloquent and original voices in the world to explore –– The Value of Literature (Worlds 2005) –– Experiment in Literature (Worlds 2006) –– Exile and Imagination (Worlds 2007) –– Human: Nature (Worlds 2008) –– The Creative Writer (Worlds 2009) –– The Education of the Imagination (Worlds 2010) –– Influence: Writing, Teaching, Translation and Poetry (Worlds 2011)

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Burma, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, France, Holland, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Bank, Zimbabwe.

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Norwich, City of Refuge

In June 2007, Norwich became the first UK City of Refuge for persecuted writers and a founder member of the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) based in Norway.

Amsterdam, Århus, Barcelona, Bergen, Brussels, Chiusi, Drøback, Fanø, Frankfurt, Frediksberg, Gothenburg, Grosseto, Hannover, Haugesund, Kristiansand, Lillehammer, Malmõ Mexico City, Miami, Molde, Norwich, Odense, Oslo, Palma de Mallorca, Potenza, Skien, Stavanger, Stockholm, Tromsø, Trondheim, Uppsala.

International Cities of Refuge

Through this scheme, Norwich joins an international network of cities offering residencies to exiled writers who have been denied freedom of speech in their home countries. WCN is also responsible for an evolving programme of collaborative work involving schools, colleges, libraries, young people, writers and artists, refugees and asylum seekers and both the public (e.g. BBC East) and private (e.g. Norwich City Football Club) sectors.

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Media Training Workshops - a pro-active response to media coverage of asylum issues can turn around a potentially negative press and produce a verifiable impact on the reporting practices of journalists. Norwich newspapers, radio and TV responded positively to the notion of Norwich as a City of Refuge, but WCN took the opportunity to refine and develop its relationship with regional media and to bring them fully on board.

WCN has also become a leading member of the Norwich Asylum Seekers and Refugee Forum (NASREF) and the centre of a huge network that reaches out from Norwich to every corner of the UK (Appendix IX).

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Shahrazad

The Shahrazad project is an offshoot of ICORN. The aim is to open up a free space in Europe for writers from all over the world to connect and release their stories. As a member of ICORN, WCN has been working with students in schools throughout Norfolk to create a series of Letters to Europe. These missives from young East Anglians to their European counterparts form part of an international conversation about their hopes and dreams for the future of Europe.

Letter to Europe Dear Europe,

I have felt so lost and alone, a wandering soul

I used to dream of the days when I could come

with no home or family. But you have given me

and see you. Eyes of a summer moon, full lips, as

hope and solace, a refuge from what I had

beautiful as an autumn sunset. And now I am

feared. Your people will be my family, your land

up here looking down and seeing all your beauty

will be my home. I look forward to the day when

in full. Your curvaceous body hiding a slowly

my feet will stand upon your rich soil, your

ageing face.

gentle breath blowing in my hair and your golden sun warming my face as I gaze upon your beauty.

Looking at your glory from high above I marvel at your green fields, your snow-capped mountains and your crystal seas of the deepest blue. Your azure lakes form a mirror, which reflects the longing in my eyes as I reach ever nearer to you. Your majestic mountains reach up and embrace me in all that has splendour, a comfort that has eluded me.

Evie, aged 14

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The digital challenge

In partnership with UEA, WCN won an AHRC Knowledge Catalyst award to develop online collaborative writing practices, study and space for emerging writers and a new online magazine. www.newwriting.net launched in December 2011.

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International Centre for Writing

The International Centre for Writing will be a gateway to UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network and a transnational home for innovation, experiment and free expression for writers worldwide. It will enshrine Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and –– Build on the national reputation for creative writing at UEA, the leadership of WCN and the expertise and international profile of BCLT –– Promote the city’s unique literary history to nurture ambition and facilitate innovation, experiment and new ways of thinking –– Stimulate the creative industries and form new collaborative networks –– Raise the national profile of a literary capital, attract creative people to a creative city and increase cultural diversity –– Project a strong literary and cultural identity into a global context –– Examine the impact of digitisation, the shifting role of the writer and the changing shape of literary endeavour –– Develop training and enterprise opportunities in partnership with the HE sector –– Highlight the value of creative learning in schools, raise the aspirations of local children and young people and create new mechanisms to improve literacy and develop talent –– Deliver a programme of public engagement –– Build links with the city’s growing film and media sectors by pioneering new approaches to distribution and engagement through digital innovation –– Create a platform for national and international debate –– Generate intercultural dialogue through exchanges, residencies and translation –– Create transnational structures for world literature The vision The International Centre will be an international art-form-led centre based in Norwich, exploring the artistic and social power of creative writing and celebrating the best in world literatures. Driven by Norwich’s bid to become England’s first UNESCO City of Literature and given the changing strategic and economic conditions around culture, the International Centre offers the chance to forge an absolutely new sort of partnership between the arts, the knowledge economy, government and education in the UK.

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The International Centre will bring together writers with industry partners including publishers and agents, intellectual property developers, translators, teachers, students, theatre, film, advertising and broadcast media executives and others to share knowledge and expertise and to develop new ideas, collaborations and services. Industry-facing events will be developed and delivered in partnership with the commercial sector, strengthening links across both publicly funded and commercial sectors and providing new routes into the market for the International Centre’s writer-associates.

Programming: the long view The International Centre will extend WCN’s existing programme towards –– Talent development –– International collaboration –– Education, Innovation and Engagement –– Public Events This four-part programme will be developed over the coming three years, emerging from current activities at WCN, the core partnership of WCN, UEA and BCLT and wider partnerships with the British Council, ICORN and the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.

Talent development The International Centre will develop and run an annual Emerging Writers Programme for five talented writers across UNESCO, HALMA, ICORN and the British Council, including a period of virtual mentoring, group editorial development and coaching with a residency at UEA to coincide with the annual Worlds Festival and the opportunity to publish on the WCN/UEA newwriting.net platform. The Centre will also investigate the feasibility of an Under 25 Emerging Writers Programme with an international cohort.

The International Centre will work with BCLT to develop its programme for translators by piloting an Escalator version in 2012-13. The Centre will also develop a leadership programme that provides a platform for sharing best practice across the literature sector (literature development, festivals, creative writing teaching, aspects of publishing and translation) and disseminating this work through its network of partners.

International collaboration The Worlds Festival is unique in the UK because of the writer-to-writer Salon at its heart. This festival is key to the Centre’s programme. It will provide a physical platform for a wider range of other projects and an opportunity to bring an even greater diversity of writers to the UK. It will establish a network of ‘writers-out-of-residence’ and showcase UEA’s international strength in creative writing teaching.

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The International Centre will aim to have two emerging international writers-inresidence at one time. Hosted in partnership with UEA and BCLT, each will have office space within the Centre and will work alongside the ICORN Guest Writer over the range of programmes on offer. The two writers will be nominated through an international network (UNESCO, ICORN, HALMA and others): one will work in English, the other in another language. Both will be supported in the development of new work over their residency, with guest blogs, translation partnerships, events and community opportunities being provided as part of the offer. Each will have the opportunity to attend and contribute to the Worlds programme.

This bid brings WCN into the heart of an international network of Creative Cities. We will aim to produce joint funding bids (e.g. Creative Scotland, Australia Council, US Embassy, Arts Council Ireland) to tour writers between countries and attend key events and programmes across the network.

The International Centre will be the home to Norwich, City of Refuge and although the Shahrazad programme ends in 2012, there are already plans for a large scale joint bid to the EU with PEN International that will fund further work between ICORN cities and PEN and support more residencies and travel for exiled writers.

Education, innovation and engagement Best practice and expertise will be shared throughout UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network.

The development of a volunteer-led reading and writing programme will be based on a partnership between WCN, UEA and Norfolk Libraries in the UK and supported by expertise from the Bay Area Project (U.C. Berkeley), Center for the Art of Translation (San Francisco) and Teachers and Writers Collaborative (NY). The programme will be developed 2011-13 and will be at the heart of the Centre’s rolling volunteer programme.

The International Centre will develop a Technology and Literature Fellowship. The post-holder will be an Associate Artist and work over a period of 1-3 years to develop specific projects involving creative writing, publishing, literature and technology.

Public events The International Centre will offer a new space in Norwich to hold a wide range of events.

It will aim to join the HALMA network of European Literature Houses to benefit from its programme of international residencies and collaborations across borders and languages.

The International Centre will be home to a unique collection of organisations and partners sharing a physical space in Norwich. The sum of the whole will have an impact at a national and international level by bringing together the creation of new work, development of talent, translation, new audiences, new thinking, new media and innovation right across the literary spectrum.

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The Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library is just one of Norfolk’s 47 libraries.

The service provides another 46 public libraries, a fleet of 14 mobile libraries covering 2,000 stops in more than 650 villages and a school library service delivering 480 days of professional advice to 85% of schools countywide. The people of Norfolk have consistently reversed the national trend in library usage and the figures continue to increase, with more than 100,000 additional people visiting libraries in 2009 than in 2008.

The library service operates in hospitals, prisons and residential homes and has a strong community programme focused on lifelong learning and the provision of materials appropriate to a huge range of individual needs - elderly populations in rural areas, the unemployed in small towns, linguistic minorities, disadvantaged children, people with disabilities, free and open access to technology, local information, book clubs, visiting writers, workshops and events. In 2006, the service secured ÂŁ1.4 million from the Lottery Fund to develop yet another groundbreaking library in the seaport of Great Yarmouth which has since become a centre of reading and learning for everyone across the county.

The Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library is central to this bid. In addition to its commitment to international projects such as The Human Library and to national networks such as the Social Exclusion Network, the UNESCO City of Literature programme will be integrated, developed and promoted within existing programmes including

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Adult ––Six Book Challenge – groups supported by the library to improve literacy skills ––Read Aloud groups formed around the city ––Talking Book groups – for people with visual disabilities ––Across the Pond reading group – books by American authors ––Book Prescription scheme – the well-being agenda in partnership with PCT ––Reading groups – chat sessions with groups outside the UK via the British Council ––Reading groups – partnership with BCLT ––READ EAST – regional working/information sharing ––BBC campaigns – the library shares the Forum building with the BBC and is involved in all its campaigns ––Reading Agency/Read East programme ––Lots of informally arranged local author promotions ––Links to local festivals and arts events – e.g. Wymondham, King’s Lynn, Cromer ––Links with local bookshops – e.g. Jarrold and Waterstones ––Cultural Olympiad – events across libraries tied in with the City of Literature ––National Year of Reading – events tied in with the City of Literature ––Banned Books events – developed by the London Development Agency ––Prison libraries – building on the Story Book Dad project and other programmes designed to tackle severe literacy problems in prisons ––A series of introductions to the library for literacy and special needs groups ––Increased e-Books – supply books and develop links to those who sell the ‘readers’ ––Love Your Library – annual campaign to encourage people to read more widely ––Creative writing in libraries – e.g. Mills and Boon workshops ––Black History events (national promotion) – every October ––Local History month – every September ––Staff training – all front-line staff are trained in reader development and support for minorities. All staff would be involved in a City of Literature programme ––Norfolk Library and Information Service tie-in with UNESCO City of Literature, including promoting and raising awareness of the region’s unique literary identity

Children ––Reading cafés around the county, working with Primary Literacy advisers ––Every Child a Talker – a pilot in central Norwich: part of a national programme (Early Years Library Network, Bookstart, Youth Libraries Group) with good results ––Training of children’s centre staff to share books with children

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––Babbling Books and Family Learning project at Mile Cross (disadvantaged area) ––Bookstart – national project to encourage Early Years literacy and support parents ––Booktime – gifting of books to 5 year olds at school supported by activity sessions in community libraries ––Boys into Books and Book Ahead (national schemes) ––Rhyme times in all libraries – supports very early literacy skills ––Support for new parents in sharing books with their babies ––BBC Family Learning programme – supported throughout Norfolk libraries ––Summer Reading Challenge – 12,000 children enrolled for the Challenge in 2011 ––Children’s University where children read and take part in library activities and gain stickers for their learning passports ––Norfolk Children’s Book Award – 11,000 votes received in 2010 + author events ––Canary Reading Stars – ongoing partnership with Norwich City Football Club ––Looked After Children Project – for foster parents and children in care ––Build and deliver collections of books for playgroups ––Build wide range of stock including materials for children with special needs ––Cultural Olympiad 2012 – events across all libraries ––Schools Library Service – promotional tie-in with UNESCO City of Literature

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Social Exclusion Network

The Social Exclusion Network (SEN) was founded to tackle social exclusion and to explore how libraries and other cultural organisations might advance community cohesion. This national network was co-founded by the Assitant Head of Services, Norfolk Library and Information Services, Jan Holden, who also sits on the City of Literature steering committee.

The aim of SEN is to share experiences and information and when a library or a museum joins the Network, this automatically confers membership upon an entire local authority. This means that information can be shared across whole departments and sectors. The Network has become a national and international resource with links to ––Conferences on different forms of civic, political and cultural engagement ––Courses on community cohesion, digital inclusion, equality and diversity ––The latest developments and in-house training ––A wide range of transnational reports ranging from audience development in Norwich, to community building in Chicago

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The Archive Centre

The Norfolk Record Office collects and preserves records of historical significance and makes them available to as wide a range of people as possible. These collections span the 11th century to the present day and have been designated of national and international importance. They are housed in a new state-of-the-art civic building, The Archive Centre.

This building also contains the Norfolk Sound Archive and the East Anglian Film Archive and a visit to the searchrooms and study spaces takes children and adults past ever-changing displays - from priceless illuminated manuscripts from Flanders, Florence and France and a copy of the Gospels from 10th century Constantinople, to documents that illustrate the lives of refugees over centuries in Norwich and Norfolk.

The Archive Centre is a free, open access, resource for research and study. It runs a year-round education programme for schools and it is one of six national centres connected to the Houses of Parliament in London - an initiative (Connecting with Communities) that offers training to local people as archivists with access to the Parliamentary Archives.

Working with writers, poets and dramatists, the centre’s education team uses the archives to raise awareness of local connections to the wider world: for example, the slave-owning families of Norfolk, slave resistance and the work of the abolitionists in Norwich. They have explored the region’s Hanseatic connections, Norfolk’s trade links with Japan, Indo China and Tibet, immigration, emigration and countless other cultural threads with the potential to connect the people of Norwich and Norfolk to every country in the world. The Archive Centre’s contribution to Norwich as a City of Literature will be very substantial indeed.

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Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service

Given the nature of the city’s long literary history, the links between Norwich writers, local historians, librarians, museologists and archaeologists are notably close and focused on very similar agendas. For example, a project to celebrate Refugee Week in 2009 created a trail of panels in the city centre featuring writing, images and artefacts chosen by refugees and asylum seekers working with libraries, the Norfolk Record Office, museums and artists to highlight the individual stories and experiences of asylum in Norwich today.

The NMAS programme includes more than 260 interpreter-led events seven days a week throughout the year. More broadly, it encompasses education, conservation, research, exhibitions, seminars, talks, hands-on interaction, Boudicca in her chariot, horror in the dungeons, the vast Norman keep, a tiny Roman stylus (writing tool) and work by the famous 19th century Norwich School of Painters.

NMAS also undertakes a wide range of projects with minority constituencies: disaffected young people; travellers; migrant workers; older people; people with disabilities; people living in isolated rural communities; people living in disadvantaged urban areas; adults with basic skills needs; asylum seekers; and ethnic minority communities. It has a very distinctive approach to this work, using many art forms and cross-cultural references to reach as many people as possible. For example, a joint project with the NRO introduced 212 schoolchildren to the horrors of the slave trade through documents, art and dramatized conversations between slaves, plantation owners and abolitionists.

Norwich is a city of writers and artists. Collectively, they represent a rare resource of competent, experienced and professional practitioners for schools, libraries and museums. For example, schoolchildren from some of the most deprived areas of Norfolk came to Norwich Castle Museum to be inspired by its paintings and to explore their own regional and cultural identity, using music, drama and creative writing. Together, the museum educators and artists generated discussion, negotiation, dialogue, listening, understanding and respect for the views of others. They increased engagement, motivation, self-esteem and confidence. And they demonstrated to each of these young people that they were valued - as well as giving them first-hand experience of great art.

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BBC Voices The level of public engagement by the BBC in Norwich is remarkable. In addition to its professional radio and television broadcasting output, BBC Voices offers a free, open studio, series of creative workshops for schoolchildren, community groups, businesses and anyone else wishing to engage with film, music, radio, writing and new technology.

In partnership with WCN, BBC Voices gave fifteen young people the opportunity to make film-poems about ‘home’, displacement and life in Norwich. The group included Kurdish Turks, Congolese, Palestinian, Iranian and Ukrainian children from schools across Norwich. The completed film-poems were premièred at the Castle Museum and toured the region and this exceptional collaboration will be continued and developed further.

Fusion and the Curve Alongside the BBC studios is Fusion: the largest digital screen gallery in Europe and the most advanced screen-based resource in Britain. The screen is a vast 24 x 2.5 metre showcase and test site for artists, filmmakers, sound designers, students, animators and other creative individuals, attracting thousands of fascinated visitors a week – including a massive installation on the theme of Exile, Refuge and Freedom of Expression.

Beyond Fusion lies The Curve - an auditorium for public lectures, debates, presentations, conferences and performances, using state-of-the-art sound, high definition projection, lighting and multiple-screen video, teleconferencing and web streaming.

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Norwich University College of the Arts

NUCA’s teachers are also practitioners and as we have shown in the main text, book design specialist, Dr. Rob Hillier, created the Sylexiad typeface for students with dyslexia. But the college is home to many other practising designers, artists and poets and many are leaders in their field. Suzie Hanna, course leader for NUCA’s Animation degree, is well known in Norwich as a filmmaker, artist and musician, whose work includes films about Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson. Most recently, a collaborative production for the giant screen at Fusion, attracted 4,000 visitors to its two-week run.

NUCA is also very sharply focused on the creative economy and ways of stimulating enterprise among its graduates and the wider business community. In Norwich, employment in the media industry is 20% higher than the national average and the college works closely with local businesses to create entrepreneurial partnerships across all its courses including –– Games Art and Design –– Graphic Design –– Book Illustration –– Publishing Design –– Film and Moving Image, including production for online platforms –– Animation NUCA runs Continuing Professional Development courses for design and media businesses and short courses for members of the public. It also curates the biennial EASTinternational, the largest open art exhibition in Europe.

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Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts

In 1973, Sir Robert and Lady Lisa Sainsbury donated their collection of world art to UEA. In 1974, the architect Norman Foster was commissioned to design his first major public building to house the collection, which opened to national acclaim in 1978.

The original collection comprised some 300 works. Today, this wonderful building – extended by Foster in 1991 – contains more than 1,700 objects visited by more than 150,000 people a year, including 10,000 young people in school groups.

For those unable to reach the spectacular galleries, a team of educators, volunteers, writers and artists take handling collections into the local communities and schools.

A recent project – Culture of the Countryside – engaged with issues about beliefs, customs, attitudes and the environment and raised awareness of local heritage in a global context, encouraging a wider outlook and greater understanding of relationships between peoples and cultures around the world.

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Above: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA.

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Below: The Blue Plaques of Norwich, c/o Norwich HEART.

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Memorials and monuments

Norwich is home to many living reminders of its great literary history, including –– The bi-annual Thomas Paine Lecture – held at UEA’s Thomas Paine Study Centre.

–– BCLT’s annual Sebald Lecture – in memory of its founder, WG (Max) Sebald. A big event on the national literary calendar held in London featuring big name writers.

–– The Julian Centre – next to the anchorite cell where Julian of Norwich, the mediaeval mystic wrote Revelations of Divine Love. It attracts visitors from all over the world to its education centre and the annual Julian Festival and Julian Lecture.

–– The Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Trust – creative writing bursaries and scholarships in memory of the co-founder of the UK’s famous creative writing course at UEA. –– The monumental bronze statue of Sir Thomas Browne – erected in Hay Hill outside the house where he lived next to the church where he is buried and which also contains a memorial to the great man. More recently, Norwich City Council commissioned artists Anne and Patrick Poirier to create Homage to Thomas Browne in the form of sculpted seats and benches in the piazza below the statue.

–– Literary trails led by local guides – including a walk devised by the Archive Centre during Refugee Week to illustrate the lasting impact made on the cityscape over centuries by waves of refugees. WCN will collaborate with the Heritage Economic and Regeneration Trust (HEART) to develop a trail especially designed to promote Norwich as a UNESCO City of Literature.

–– 39 blue plaques installed throughout the city – HEART will work with WCN and other partners to commission a new generation of literary-related plaques.

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Theatres and festivals

The 1,300-seater Theatre Royal is home to national opera, musical theatre, plays and other large scale touring productions. Its smaller sister, the 300-seater Norwich Playhouse, brings in comedy, music, jazz, dance and drama and both theatres have extensive education programmes largely focused on children and young people.

Norwich Playhouse was founded and built by a well-known figure grounded in one of the city’s other unique strengths - amateur theatre. Henry Burke followed a long line of amateur directors, actors and playwrights who have brought world plays to Norwich audiences for almost a century. It began with the Shakespearian specialist, Nugent Monck, who built the 310-seater Maddermarket Theatre in 1921. This remarkable building was the first permanent recreation of an Elizabethan theatre and has since produced generations of young Norwich people who have graduated to national theatre, television and film. Closely related, the intimate Sewell Barn Theatre operates at a very local level and yet is engaged with bringing some of the most challenging world theatre to Norwich.

Norwich Arts Centre produces cross-art exhibitions and workshops and events that draw people in from all ages, backgrounds and circumstances. The workshops range from digital design and film-making to creative writing for children and adults at all levels of ability.

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Norfolk Children’s Book Centre

The Norfolk Children’s Book Centre started out 30 years ago as one room in the house of a children’s librarian. The house has since become a national centre of more than 50,000 books for children of all ages, underpinned by the founder’s creed that all children will read if they are introduced to the right books and that she and her staff exist to create young readers. This is a remarkably close-knit team that achieves its aims through a unique programme of events and services including –– Author visits –– Teacher training –– Library support –– Books in schools –– Children’s book groups Many thousands of children in schools and with their parents have been introduced to books and writers from all over the world. With its wind turbine in the garden, the centre won the Penguin Award for Green Retail Initiative of the Year in 2007 and the Children’s Bookshop of the Year Award in 2008.

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BCLT produces both print and online journals, including an anthology of world literature and jointly with the Translators Association (part of the Society of Authors) the biannual In Other Words, the journal for literary translation. Poetry is well served by small presses, many founded by UEA graduates. Rialto was founded in 1983 by two poets sitting in a bar and has since become the best poetry magazine in the country. It also supports new talent by publishing pamphlets and first collections. Egg Box Publishing has a growing list of rising stars including the Trinidadian poet, Vahni Capildeo, and the Hungarian, Agnes Lehoczky. East Publishing is working in partnership with WCN and the literary editor of the Eastern Daily Press to publish the 700-yearold ‘lost’ poems of the mediaeval Hebrew poet, Meir of Norwich (see main text).

The abundance of independent-minded and free-thinking small presses encompasses a unique cohort of local historians, local history and fiction. It includes the Mousehold Press, which publishes a remarkable range of local books by local writers. The Norwich Living History Group collects and publishes a very fine series of oral history memoirs; Black Dog Books publishes collections of short fiction and beautiful art books. Cant Books made headlines in 2009 with its first venture, Southampton Dada by Nick Rogers. Unthank Books publishes “the books that publishers used to publish…novels which speak for themselves…”. And the innovative Gatehouse Press worked with The Book Hive bookshop to produce an illustrated book out of the Hack-in-the-Box project. Full Circle Editions is an important regional publisher of illustrated works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction by local writers and artists as well as new editions of local classics.

Beyond UEA’s famous history department and the world-class archivists at the NRO, Norwich is home to a high concentration of independent historians. Some are nationally well-known. Most are embedded in the community. Many of their books become local bestsellers and their talks and tours are visible reminders that Norwich is a potent mixture of radical voices, ideas, stories and actions accumulated over 1,000 years that can be mobilised to confront prejudice, challenge established orthodoxies, and to inspire. All will be deeply involved in Norwich as a City of Literature.

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Print

Founded in 1968, Bertrams is a major local employer and the UK’s leading wholesaler of books and related products to thousands of retailers large and small, in the UK and overseas. It represents around 12% of all book sales in the UK each week and employs 650 people to work in a purpose-built 130,000 sq. ft. facility that includes Bertrams Library Services (the supply of books to libraries) and Bertrams Publisher Services (advice and support for publishers).

Archant is the UK’s largest independently owned media business, producing four daily newspapers and 60 weekly titles with a combined circulation of 2.5 million copies every week. Norwich itself has two daily newspapers - unusual for a medium-sized city – and the Eastern Daily Press produces literary features and reviews of outstanding quality, with a special focus on regional books and writers. It also sponsors the annual East Anglian Book Awards. Archant Print operates out of Norwich Print Centre, housing state-of-the-art printing technology with the capacity to produce 70,000 tabloid newspapers an hour using 30,000 tonnes of 100% recycled, locally sourced, paper each year.

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Booksellers

As the UK’s national book chains have declined in the face of competition from online outlets such as Amazon, Norwich has witnessed a revival of independent bookshops.

The Book Hive was recently named the Best Independent Bookshop in Britain by The Telegraph and this latest arrival in the heart of the old city is a flourishing, contemporary bookshop housed in a fine building with a flamboyant shop window fronting the historic Norwich Lanes. It houses two floors of wonderful books, a Children’s Book Room, chairs to browse, coffee and tea and street level events and performances.

Jarrold’s book department in the centre of Norwich is the region’s oldest independent bookseller, winner of the Walkers Children’s Bookshop of the Year at the Bookseller Awards in 2009 and renowned for its engagement with local communities, writers and readers and the promotion of the county’s numerous small publishers.

Ellis bookshop in Upper St. Giles is first port of call for second-hand books - with a branch in the form of a popular book stall in the 700 year old Norwich Market.

Other more hidden gems are tucked into the mediaeval backwaters, such as The Bookman in Pottergate and The Dormouse in Elm Hill.

The handsome Antiquarian Bookshop in Tombland flags up the vast Antiquarian Book Fairs held regularly in the magnificent Grade 1 listed St. Andrew’s and Blackfriars Halls (the most complete Friary complex in the country).

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A knowledge economy

Norwich has key assets in the knowledge economy: 32% of Norwich businesses are knowledge based and 41% of employment in the city is in the knowledge industries.

The international Norwich Research Park includes the John Innes Centre, the Institute of Food Research, the Sainsbury Laboratory and the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital. They employ over 9,000 people and together with UEA, have created the world-class Earth and Life Systems Alliance, the Norwich Centre for Preventive Medicine and generated the fourth highest number of science citations in Britain, after London, Oxford and Cambridge. The Research Park is also home to a growing number of science and IT-based companies and the new £500,000 Enterprise Hub. The overall population of Norwich has higher skill levels than the national average. Yet the city remains a relatively low wage economy. Norwich as a UNESCO City of Literature would not only focus on raising the literacy skills of local children and young people. It would raise awareness of their extraordinary literary heritage and show them how reading, writing, listening and engaging with words can equip them to join the creative life of the city and shape their own futures, like the writers and thinkers before them.

In addition to the city’s 57 primary schools (8 private) and 13 high schools (3 private), City College Norwich offers further education to some 4,500 students and a wide range of vocational courses and qualifications. The college has recently become a founder member of the National Skills Academy in Creative and Cultural Skills and a regional hub for creative development. The college is crucial to the city’s focus on creativity as an essential element of social inclusion and cultural development.

To make this real, a partnership with UEA (an Access to HE Creative Writing course for 18+ mature students), a mixed media innovation centre and a consortium comprising City College, UEA, NUCA and the Writers’ Centre will be applied to a range of challenges across literacy, youth inclusion, life long learning, employability and accreditation, with a focus on ability and potential rather than social or academic background.

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Education profile

Norwich, Norfolk and the East of England –– Basic literacy and numeracy skills are below the national average –– 38% of working people in Norfolk have a National Vocational Qualification of Level 3 or above; the regional figure is 42%; the national figure is 44% –– 15% of economically active people in Norfolk have no qualifications whatever –– 45% of the East of England region’s 3.35 million population of adults aged 16–65 are below Level 2 literacy and numeracy – the standard expected of a 15-year-old –– Nearly 8 in 10 adults are below Level 2 in either literacy or numeracy; only 22% of working adults are above Level 2 in both –– 15% of working adults in Norfolk have higher-level qualifications; almost a third of working adults (32%) have no qualifications Norfolk schools –– There are 110,932 children in 438 schools in the county –– Pupils aged between 7 and 11 are consistently behind their peers compared to the national average –– 69% of Norfolk pupils at Key Stage 2 attain Level 4 or above. The national average is 73% –– The picture improves in secondary school: by GCSE, the average of pupils achieving five passes at Grade C or above is 47.9% - just above the national average of 47.6% –– Norfolk’s science score is slightly below the national average at 49.5% of passes at C or above, compared to a national average of 50.4% –– The county does poorly at languages: 25.5% gain GCSE in a language at Grace C or above; the national average is 30% –– Absence from school is a problem, at 7.9%: the national average is 7.7% –– The education spend per pupil in Norfolk is amongst the lowest in the country. In 2004, the spend per pupil in Norfolk was £2,206, while in Islington, North London, the spend was £6,064. The national average spend per pupil was £4,400 –– Even within the East of England, which sees a lower spend per capita on education, Norfolk pupils have less spent on them than those elsewhere in the region Sources: National Literacy Trust, Census 2001, Norfolk County Council, UK Government Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF), BBC Education, The Stationery Office (Hansard), TheyWorkForYou.com

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A tale of two cities

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In 2010, Polish was INTRAN’s fastest growing language. Lithuanian, Chinese Mandarin, Slovak, Hungarian and Pashto also grew considerably, (Pashto leapt from 34th to 18th as the most requested language within the partnership), a growth that reflects broader migration and language trends within East Anglia. Unaccompanied minors from Afghanistan, who speak Pashto, have become the single largest migrant language group. There was a drop in the use of Portuguese, despite it remaining the most requested language; this was also seen in the use of Russian and Chinese Cantonese. Whilst Slovak used to be one of our least requested languages, it has now become a major language in our region, demonstrating an increase in Slovakian migrant workers. Minority languages are Armenian, Cambodian, Catalan, Finnish, Gujarati, Yoruba and Welsh.

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Right: Source: Norfolk County Council.

Geographical breakdown of top language requests

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Organisations engaged with minorities and diversity

Some 90 Voluntary and Community Organisations (VCOs) provide services to members of black and minority ethnic communities in Norfolk and Norwich – African, Caribbean, Asian, Arabic, South American, East European. Many of these organisations have existing or potential collaborative relationships with the Writers’ Centre. As a leading member of the Norwich Asylum Seekers and Refugee Forum (NASREF), WCN will ensure that all groups will be invited to participate in relevant UNESCO City of Literature programmes, which will be designed to celebrate and increase cultural diversity throughout the region.

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CUE East

The University of East Anglia’s community engagement fund (CUE East) was set up in 2008 as one of six Beacons for Public Engagement projects in the UK. CUE East was designed to increase UEA’s involvement with local communities, to utilise Norwich Research Park expertise and promote sustainable living. CUE East has pledged support for Norwich as a City of Literature, with a special interest in literacy programmes and the bringing together of science and literature.

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Creative Arts East

Norfolk’s rural arts development agency, Creative Arts East, uses writers and artists to reach people who cannot easily engage with the arts, whether through isolation, disability, age or other disadvantages. In terms of social exclusion, CAE shares the same agenda as its city-based partners and collaborators. It is also a leading member of the National Rural Touring Forum with an interest in developing rural touring at an international level.

At the Forum’s International Village of Culture conference in 2009, one of the issues debated by delegates was how to connect with international capitals of culture: an interesting conversation between rural and urban cultural providers that could generate some dynamic and surprising suggestions for Norwich as a City of Literature and for members of UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network.

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‘Norwich has turned itself into a world hub for literature’ Ian McEwan, 2010

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Credits Management Group Chris Gribble Chief Executive, Writers’ Centre Norwich.

Robert McCrum Chair, Writers’ Centre Norwich.

Graham Creelman Vice Chair, Writers’ Centre Norwich.

Magdalen Russell Bid Writer.

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This bid document has been led by Writers’ Centre Norwich with the support of the following key partners:

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Norwich has a sensational literary past spanning 900 years. It is also a city of firsts - from the first battlefield dispatch (1075) to the first woman published in English (Julian of Norwich), the first recognisable novel, first blank verse, first printed plan of an English city, first published parliamentary debates (Hansard), the largest concentration of published dissenters, revolutionaries, translators and social reformers 18th and 19th centuries (including Thomas Paine, Harriet Martineau and the recordbreaking 50 million bestseller, Anna Sewell), the first provincial library (1608), first municipality to adopt the Library Act (1850), first provincial newspaper (1701), first British MA in creative writing (1970), the first student of which was Ian McEwan, the UK’s first City of Refuge for persecuted writers (2007) and a founding member of the International Cities of Refuge Network. To cap it all, the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library has had the highest number of visitors and users in the UK for the last five years in a row - by far. Norwich is a city in which literature has been harnessed to foster positive social change for hundreds of years.

We are proud to submit a bid to become England’s first UNESCO City of Literature and ensure this achievement is continued for many years to come.

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