Projects

Since 2018, New Writing South has been working to support the women involved in the Hangleton & Knoll Multicultural Women’s Group to tell their rich and diverse stories. The Telling our Stories project is a wonderful partnership between The Hangleton & Knoll Project RISE and New Writing South which enables women from the group to

Common People  With partners: Kit de Waal, New Writing North, National Centre for Writing, Literature Works, Writing West Midlands, Writing East Midlands, Spread the Word https://uk.bookshop.org/books/common-people-an-anthology-of-working-class-writers/9781783527458 Working-class stories are not always tales of the underprivileged and dispossessed. Common People is a collection of essays, poems and memoir written in celebration, not apology: these are narratives

With partners Historic England, alongside New Writing North, National Centre for Writing, Literature Works, Writing West Midlands, Writing East Midlands, Spread the Word High Street Tales is part of the cultural programme of the High Street Heritage Action Zones (HAZ) project run by Historic England. Its aim is to create a set of stories to

Since its inception in 2018, Hear Us Out has worked with a community collective of LGBTQ+ volunteers to collect the funny, touching and celebratory real-life stories of older LGBTQ+ people across the South East of England.  In 2020, Artistic Director Dinos Aristidou worked with a company of local LGBTQ+ performers, to turn these stories into