The 2024 NAWE Conference will take place online on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th November 2024. While it will include many opportunities to connect online, we know that nothing beats meeting in-person. Therefore, from mid-October to Thursday 7th November 2024, we’ll be inviting NAWE Members to set up informal in-person Member Meet-Ups around the UK.  Read more...

Paul Munden, former Director of NAWE, is offering a number of creative writing books free of charge to NAWE members. Anyone wishing to obtain any or all of them need only pay for postage and packing. Read more...

Volume 10 of Writing In Practice is open for submissions until January 19, 2024 23:59. Read more...

After another year of amazing submissions, the host organisations for the 2023-2024 MaxLiteracy Awards are announced: Take A Part, Meadow Arts and Nottingham Contemporary. Read more...

NAWE Trustees have been deeply saddened by the death of our fellow Trustee, Sue Dymoke. Sue had only recently joined the Board of NAWE but had been an energetic force for good. Read more...

A chance to join fellow NAWE members to share experience of writing in education in all its forms. Read more...

Manchester Poetry Library has published a practical guide for festival leaders on how to improve their accessibility practice using Kendal Poetry Festival as a case study. Commissioned by NAWE. Written and developed by Manchester Poetry Library at Manchester Metropolitan University. With support from Kendal Poetry Festival staff and audiences.  Read more...

Following on from another very successful NAWE conference, NAWE's Director Seraphima Kennedy is stepping down from her role on 15th March 2023. Read more...

NAWE (National Association of Writers in Education) is delighted to be teaming up with Goldsmiths, University of London and Spread the Word to run a networking event for London-based writers involved in creative writing in educational and community settings on Thursday 17 November 2022, 6-8pm, at Goldsmiths, University of London. Read more...

The National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) is delighted to announce the appointment of Bea Colley as its first Participation Producer. Bea will be working with us on a freelance basis, designing a programme of professional development opportunities for creative writing educators across the UK. Read more...

National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) to receive £25k from third round of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund. NAWE among 925 recipients to benefit from the latest round of awards from the Culture Recovery Fund. This award will enable NAWE to create more opportunities for writers and communities. Read more...

We are delighted to announce that the next NAWE Conference will take place online from 10 - 12 March 2022. The conference will build on the success of our first online conference in 2021, and will include a mixture of curated panels and talks, as well as submissions from both NAWE members and non-members. We welcome high quality submissions from writers in education in all settings, as well as from arts professionals involved in creative writing pedagogy. Read more...

We are delighted to announce the host venues for the 2021 MaxLiteracy Awards. Funded by the Max Reinhardt Charitable Trust, MaxLiteracy offers funding for museums and galleries in England to support a dedicated programme of creative writing and literacy work within learning settings through the visual arts. The Awards are run in partnership with Engage, the National Association for Gallery Education and the National Association for Writers in Education (NAWE). Read more...

NAWE to receive £42k from second round of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund. > NAWE is among more than 2,700 recipients to benefit from the latest round of awards from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund > This award will help us provide more direct support for writers working in education and community settings and develop some exciting new programmes of work.  Read more...

We are delighted to announce that York St John University will be sponsoring WHAT NEXT? Writing in Education and Communities in 2021 and Beyond, NAWE’s first ever virtual conference taking place on Friday 12 and Saturday 13 March 2021. Read more...

A cracking programme of workshops, talks, panels and readings from writers, teachers, facilitators and researchers contributing from across our membership and the wider sector is lined up for WHAT NEXT? Writing in Education and Communities in 2021 and Beyond. NAWE Virtual Conference 12 & 13 March 2021. Read more...

A packed programme of 50+ events including workshops, panels, talks and readings across the themes of teaching creative writing, wellbeing and practice research, plus lots of special events, is lined up for WHAT NEXT? Writing in Education and Communities in 2021 and Beyond, Friday 12 and Saturday 13 March 2021, Online via Zoom. Read more...

We are delighted to announce that we have an exciting array of special events and guests lined up for our first ever virtual conference, WHAT NEXT? Writing in Education and Communities in 2021 and Beyond, taking place via Zoom on Friday 12 and Saturday 13 March.  Read more...

The Max Reinhardt Charitable Trust, Engage, the National Association for Gallery Education, and the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE), are delighted to announce the MaxLiteracy Awards 2021. Galleries, art museums and visual arts venues in England are invited to submit proposals to host a MaxLiteracy 2021 project supported by the Max Reinhardt Charitable Trust. Read more...

Julia Payne from the hub who will be facilitating the NAWE Open Space event on 17 November 2020 talks about what makes Open Space unique and what attenders can expect. Read more...