
Union secures fee rise for playwrights
Playwrights working in the UK independent theatre sector will get a 24% increase in minimum fees over three years as well as new r…
Playwrights working in the UK independent theatre sector will get a 24% increase in minimum fees over three years as well as new r…
Publishing often pigeonholes writers of colour within racial boundaries. But new platforms like WritersMosaic Quarterly are creati…
The Charleston Festival of arts and ideas is currently underway. Head of programme Melissa Perkins outlines how its ethos of intel…
A new initiative created to support working class writers has been launched by New Writing North. The Bee consists of a website, l…
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is investing £2m in a fund for arts centres, libraries and museums ahead of th…
A six-year project to add around 100,000 sq ft of space to the British Library is expected to begin next year, it has been confirm…
Funding for legacy projects ‘of long-term benefit, national importance and strategic value’ has been announced by The Foyle Fo…
ADRIAN TURPIN will step down as director of Wigtown Book Festival after 20 years of being involved with the annual event. Turpin b…
A pilot project to celebrate England’s everyday heritage through poetry has been launched by English Heritage. The initiative, w…
A ‘groundbreaking’ £1.1bn new development on the British Library’s St Pancras site will go ahead after a Japanese real estate c…
US President Donald Trump has signed orders for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to be “eliminated”. The Art Ne…
A demonstration has taken place in protest over cuts to library funding in Lambeth. Lambeth Council is planning a £1m cut to its…
Arts Council England (ACE) and the National Literacy Trust (NLT) are collaborating on a new project aiming to boost creative writi…
VICTORIA DILLY has been appointed CEO of the School Library Association (SLA). Dilly has worked in the education sector for almost…
Two poetry charities have joined forces following discussions with Arts Council England (ACE) in what is the first merger of two m…
What happens to a library’s capacity for creative expression and innovation when knowledge is shared among nine services? asks T…
An Arts Council England-funded literary agency set up to increase diversity in the publishing industry is to close at the end of M…
A Newcastle-based creative centre for writing and publishing will receive £5m funding from the Department for Culture Media and S…
The director and chair of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) have both resigned. Director MOLLY ROSENBERG announced she will st…
A new programme designed to transform the way communities interact with digital creativity will launch this year, it has been anno…
A Liverpool library and community hub forced to close after being vandalised during the summer has reopened following an outpourin…
Almost 90% of young people from marginalised groups felt more welcome in libraries after co-creating projects with them, new resea…
Promoting libraries as social spaces could help overcome access barriers, a new report finds. Carried out on behalf of the Departm…
Arts Council England (ACE) has confirmed further funding for the next stage of the Reflecting Disability project. The project, led…