'The visits that writers make to schools are invaluable: they help to make literature approachable without destroying its elements of mystery; they take students into the engine room of writing; and they valuably complement the work that teachers themselves do.'

Andrew Motion

Writing Together

This website offers classroom techers practical help in organisating writer visits as well as useful background reading on successful writer visits which have taken place in schools across the country.

Plan your first writer visit

Watch an online step by step guide that gives information, ideas and tips about bringing writers into schools. The guide includes free downloadable pdf resources.

Writer visits across the curriculum

Find new ways of working supporting writing across a range of subject areas by reading examples of writer visits in subjects such as Science, History and Drama

'The best schools work effectively with poets'

Read the 2007 Ofsted report Poetry in Schools (305Kb Adobe Acrobat pdf)