Writing Together

This website is the legacy of the Writing Together project, which was run between 2001 and 2007. During that time, Writing Together aimed to ensure that, during their life at school, every child encountered opportunities to work with professional writers who inspired them creatively.

Writing Together advocated for the power and excitement of writing generated by the partnership of effective classroom teachers and professional writers.

Writing Together was strategically connected to national policy through supportive liaison with the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), both the Primary National Strategy and the Secondary National Strategy, and four organisations devoted to arts in education: the Arts Council, Booktrust, the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) and The Poetry Society.

Writing Together ran conferences for primary teachers and for secondary teachers as well as organising conferences for local authority staff to help them promote the idea of working with writers to their schools.

The project worked strategically by establishing links with other organisations in the field of literature development and by devising models for writers and teachers to work together out of school.

The project enjoyed the backing of the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, whose advocacy for the creative arts in schools has done much to win hearts and minds for bringing writers into schools.

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