Good Practice Guide

Many writer development programmes are run each year by a range of providers, and we’d like to help ensure that programmes are inclusive and well considered.

We know the impact that these programmes can have on writers when they are well designed and achieve the removal of barriers.

We’d like to help everyone who produces programmes to design them well, and to enable this we are creating a Good Practice Guide exploring how to plan, design and deliver inclusive writer development programmes that consider barriers for people from working class and other traditionally underrepresented backgrounds and lived experiences.

We are working with freelance consultants and writers to help with the co-creation of the guide, and we are conducting research with Northumbria University to hear writers’ perspectives of being on writer development programmes.