We asked some of our most experienced tutors to share their favourite writing prompts. Something to get you started if you’re staring at a blank page, something to help shape your characters or get your descriptive language flowing. Pick and choose the one that’s right for you or for your writing project – or just […]
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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
