The CMCW is pleased to host visiting researchers and writers, and to collaborate with our cultural partners in the city on organising events and residencies.
Many writers have visited the Centre in the past few years, includingĀ Ivana HostovĆ”, Iain Morrisson, John Agard, Helen McDonald, Philip Henscher, Horatio Clare, Nat Raha, Shena Mackay, Rachel Seiffert, Mirza Waheed, Redell Olsen, Charles Bernstein, Linus Slug, Amitav Ghosh, Sophie Seita, Bruce Andrews, Rachel Blau Du Plessis, Claire Fuller, Rae Armantrout, Carla Harryman, Michael Davidson, Nisha Ramayya, Trevor Joyce, Rana DasGupta, Samantha Walton. Tsitisi Dangeramba, Judith Butler, Tyler Keevil, Peter Manson, Deborah Levy, Vahni Capildeo, Tessa Hadley, Evelyn Fox Keller, Jay Bernard, Laura Marcus, Christopher Ricks, Mirza Waheed and Jeanette Winterson.
Between 2007 and 2010 Caroline Bergvall joined us as an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded Creative Writing Fellow. Her project was entitled Writing in Tongues: Multi-Media and Poetic Projects and led to exhibitions at the Arnolfini in Bristol and the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton, as well as a volume of poetry.