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National Centre for Writing

national centre for writing based in Norwich, England

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ21061561 ↗
Source-derived summary

The National Centre for Writing, formerly Writers' Centre Norwich, is a literature development agency and national centre for writing based in Norwich, England. It led the successful bid for Norwich to be granted the UNESCO City of Literature title in 2012.

In April 2015, the organisation moved into the historic building Dragon Hall, Norwich.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, National, Centre and Writing is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q21061561. Authority coordinates are 52.625, 1.302. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “National Centre for Writing” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.