Willem Claassen
Willem Claassen is a writer, columnist, journalist and writing coach. He published the novel Park and the collections of short stories De koe die de Waal over zwommen, Beungening and Contouren. Since 2015, he has been writing columns in De Gelderlander. Journalistic stories of his have appeared in De Volkskrant, Trouw and Algemeen Dagblad, among others.
Willem also regularly mentors young writers at Wintertuin, ArtEZ, Tilt and Panda. In the past he worked for ten years as a programmer at Wintertuin. In recent years Willem has dedicated himself to the literary climate in Nijmegen and wants to continue to do so. As advisor Literature at Groeispurt he likes to give writers, poets and other literary makers with a good plan an important push. This allows them to develop further and gives them room to experiment.
Advisor at Cultuur Academy
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Rose Meerman
Roos Meerman is an Arnhem-based designer who graduated from the Product Design department at ArtEZ Arnhem in 2014. She is founder of Fillip Studios, an internationally active design studio she runs with Tom Kortbeek.
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