It will add a nice demographic to the whole area. Everyone can feel a part of it. It will give a good balance of things to do.

If someone had a heart attack two years ago, they are still smoking 50 cigarettes a day and their blood pressure is up, they will not get cover. But if they had treatment and then improved their condition they probably would.

However, promoting and enabling local writers is exactly the sort of thing which Capital of Culture should be about.