Write Where You Are is a trust aiming to increase the accessibility of creative writing among groups that face barriers to participation in the arts.
The UN Declaration of Human Rights recognises participation in the cultural life of the community and enjoyment of the arts as a fundamental human right to be universally protected and promoted.
Creative writing is an art form that can greatly benefit its individual practitioners, as well as forge new links between members of a participating group.
The Write Where You Are Trust aims to increase the accessibility of creative writing in communities and to individuals who face barriers – personal, financial, social, geographical or otherwise – to participation in the arts.
Founded in Wellington, New Zealand in August 2016 by the writers and creative writing teachers Pip Adam, William Brandt, Gigi Fenster and Rajorshi Chakraborti, Write Where You Are will build on work that Pip, William and Gigi have been doing for the past couple of years, and aim to take further our goal of offering the teaching of creative writing in communities and locations that have relatively reduced access to such opportunities, including, for example, drug rehabilitation centres, prisons, women’s refuges and organisations for at-risk youth.
We would love your support in any form, from following our news and activities on this page to attending our classes and workshops, or indeed contributing whenever possible with any financial help. We are a not-for-profit charitable trust, and would be deeply grateful for all donations.
In the last year, Write Where You Are has:
- Taught more than 100 teaching hours.
- Collaborated with the Wellington Writers' Festival to take writers into prisons and present the work of incarcerated writers to an audience.
- Brought new teachers on board and facilitated workshops at Community Corrections.