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Hey WEM friends! ✨️
Here's our next Writing Community spotlight! ✒️🧡

Bringing you upcoming events, projects and opportunities from across the East Midlands and beyond!

Check out the 'What's On' page on our website for all these and more 📱🧡

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November 6, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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Black Writers of the East Midlands
Hilário Alves (@hilthepoet) 🖊️📖

Hilário Alves is a poet and spoken-word artist writing both for the page and live performance, he specialises in contemporary, bilingual and narrative poetry.

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October 28, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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Black Writers of the East Midlands
Aoife O’Connor 🖊️📖

Aoife O’Connor is a Derby based poet and producer, co-director of Derby Poetry Festival and the vice-chair of the Forward Arts Foundation Board.

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October 29, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Black Writers of the East Midlands
Dr Carol Leeming MBE D Univ FRSA 🎙️📖

Carol Leeming has been writing for 20 years across Poetry, Choreopoetry, Plays for Stage and Radio, Screenplays, Non-Fiction Arts Journalism and Copywriting.

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October 23, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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Black Writers of the East Midlands 🖊️📖
Cara Thompson (@caracreator) 🌱

Cara is a writer, facilitator and interdisciplinary artist based in Nottingham with over 10 years experience. In 2025, she was announced as Nottingham's first Nature Poet Laureate.

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October 7, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Hooray! The #WritingEastMidlands Aurora Prize for fiction is now OPEN! A national writing competition, seeking outstanding new writing in short fiction and poetry.
Full details below!
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The Aurora Prize for Writing is now OPEN until 6th August 2025. The Aurora Prize is a national writing competition, seeking outstanding new writing in short fiction and poetry. Since 2016, Aurora has provided a platform for writers, offering a prize that is truly national (and international) with its heart in the East Midlands. Our judges have included some of the region’s leading literary lights, with names such as Joanna Cannon, Casey Bailey, Mahsuda Snaith, Alison Moore, Jon McGregor, Malika Booker, Helen Mort, Debris Stevenson, Shreya Sen-Handley and Georgina Wilding. We are thrilled to announce that this year’s judges include T.S. Eliot Prize winner Joelle Taylor, reading poetry, and multi-award-winning author Irenosen Okojie, judging prose. As well as receiving a cash prize, winners receive feedback on a piece of work of their choice from a matched literary agent or editor. We receive hundreds of entries each year, with the best 25 in each category making it to a published longlist and the best 10 in each category on published shortlists. The writing competition also offers prizes for second and third places in each category, plus prizes for the best work from the East Midlands region.
May 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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November 23, 2024 at 9:18 AM
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@alcs_uk WEMTerns Summer Social 🌻✨️

This weekend our WEMTerns gathered at nottmcentrallibrary for the 'Marketing Yourself as a Writer' workshop with @laurieowenmakes 🖊️🖥️

The workshop focused on promoting yourself with a limited budget as an emerging writer 💭

#WEMTerns #WritingEastMidlands
July 7, 2026 at 12:45 PM