Grassroutes: Contemporary Leicestershire Writing

Promoting public knowledge of Leicestershire’s diverse literary cultures

The project surveys high-quality transcultural writing by Leicestershire-based writers from 1980 to the present. It fosters local, national and international appreciation – as well as critical recognition - for this writing.

Grassroutes supports the efforts of independent publishers and literature development agencies to inspire public engagement with the diverse writing cultures of multi-racial Britain.

The five project outputs:

- An edited online Writers’ Gallery containing 50 author pages;

- An online electronic catalogue of transcultural writing by Leicester-based writers from 1980 to present.

- A £1,000 creative writing commission:

- An exhibition about writers in Leicestershire (October and November 2012)

- A Grassroutes blog on the Literature Network.