Free the Word! 2009 partners
 | Bloomberg is delighted to sponsor Free the Word!, International PEN's festival of world literature in London. As a leading global financial communications company, Bloomberg is deeply committed to education and creativity, and to expanding access to art, science and the humanities across boundaries. Bloomberg is proud to support Free the Word! for a second time, a festival that gives voice to some of the world's most inspiring writers and that reaches out to London's diverse audiences. www.bloomberg.com |
 | Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts, distributing grant-inaid and lottery funding to the arts sector. We support International PEN's Free the Word! festival through our Grants for the arts funding scheme. The festival contributes to our priorities of excellence, engagement and reach, and our International Policy, by bringing leading international authors to the UK. www.artscouncil.org.uk |
 | 26 is a UK association of writers, editors, publishers and designers from both the arts and commercial world who share a love of words. We are delighted to be collaborating with International PEN for the second Free the Word! festival. Through ‘26 Exchanges' - an exploration of translation and cultural exchange pairing 26 writers with PEN members around the globe, and the 26 ‘Free the Blog', our partnership with International PEN upholds our belief that language and writing can bring about positive change. www.26.org.uk |
 | Foyles bookshop is the official bookseller for Free the Word! and will be selling the festival writers' books at Shakespeare's Globe. For more in international fiction, history, politics and art, visit Foyles at the Southbank Centre. Or come to our flagship store on Charing Cross Road, our shop at St Pancras or our newly opened shop at Westfield London. www.foyles.co.uk |
 | The Commonwealth Writers' Prize, established in 1987, is organised and funded by the Commonwealth Foundation with the support of the Macquarie Group Foundation. The Commonwealth Foundation is an intergovernmental body working to help civil society organisations promote democracy, development and cultural understanding in Commonwealth countries. www.commonwealthfoundation.com/culture/cwp |
 | The future for the UK depends on people of all cultures living together on foundations of education, mutual understanding, respect and trust. Books by their very nature encourage expression and discussion. Dialogue is a fundamental tool we at the British Council use in stimulating an imaginative spark that may lead to joint solutions on any scale. www.britishcouncil.org |