by Administrator | Sep 29, 2021 | News & Press
International Translation Day celebrates translation, translators and translated literature every 30 September. For ITD 2021, we ran a series of interviews and panel talks, in collaboration with sister UNESCO Cities of Literature Lviv and Ljubljana. We’ve also... 
by Administrator | Sep 29, 2021 | News & Press
The UNESCO Cities of Literature will celebrate International Translation Day on September 30 with a collaborative project to translate the same poem into languages spoken in their cities across the globe. The UN General Assembly formally recognised the role of... 
by Administrator | Sep 29, 2021 | Readers & Writers
International Translation Day (ITD) celebrates translation, translators, and translated literature every 30 September. To celebrate, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature has met with a series of translators local to Nottingham as well as to two of our sister Creative... 
by Administrator | Sep 24, 2021 | Quick Reads
As a relatively recent addition to the NUCoL team I wasn’t entirely sure what the Annual Meeting would involve. In fact, I was a little daunted by the prospect of presenting the Story Valley project I am working on to a group of strangers who form part of a... 
by Administrator | Sep 20, 2021 | Quick Reads
D.H. Lawrence: synonymous with Nottingham and the collieries of the county, with the notorious Lady Chatterley’s Lover, with censorship and sex. A literary outsider who divides scholars, students and readers around the world. D.H. Lawrence splits opinion, and... 
by Administrator | Sep 13, 2021 | Readers & Writers
“If what we see and experience, if our country, does not become real in imagination, then it never can become real to us, and we are forever divided from it… Imagination is a particularizing and a local force, native to the ground underfoot” – Wendell... 
by Administrator | Sep 9, 2021 | Readers & Writers
It’s been nearly exactly 50 years since Mrs Jai Verma first arrived in the UK, following her doctor husband, and with an infant daughter in tow. She now heads up one of the longest running and prolific poetry groups in the region: Kavya Rang (‘Colours of Poetry’), and... 
by Administrator | Sep 6, 2021 | Readers & Writers
Focus and motivation are two friends I don’t hear much from these days. Somehow lockdown makes a blank page emptier, daily word counts unobtainable and tea breaks half-hourly. Remember March 2020? The Before. The Brink. It brought us a most unwelcome, but necessary,... 
by Administrator | Sep 1, 2021 | News & Press
Youth Advisory Board Chair: Abigail Hutchinson As a writer, I’ve spent my life telling other people’s narratives and trying to create the voice of others. This time I want to use my own. When I first heard about the Ambassador role, I thought of opportunity and... 
by Administrator | Aug 5, 2021 | Interviews
Inspiration comes from unusual places, but it strikes few writers as dramatically as it struck Darren Simpson. Struck is literal here: when his car met another car with considerable force, through all the twisted metal, crumpled bumpers and shook nerves the... 
by Administrator | Aug 2, 2021 | Quick Reads
The last 18 months haven’t been kind, particularly to young people. The percentage of UK school students eligible for free school meals has risen from 15% to 20% since March 2020, and on top of that they’ve had to cope with online learning, homeschooling, returning to... 
by Administrator | Jul 23, 2021 | Readers & Writers
No Princesses By Lucy Campion The day I met God, He was wearing Grandma’s jumper. The maroon one that smelt like her perfume and bacon butties on Saturday mornings. I wanted to walk up to him and fill my lungs with the smell, but He was on one side of the Sky Mirror... 
by Administrator | Jul 16, 2021 | Readers & Writers
Sky Mirror I gaze down onto earth how beautiful is it i want to go down there, but how can I? I kneel in front of the mirror gazing up at it for a long time, in and out of consciousness, tears rolling down my face as the emotions wash over me. The edge of the mirror... by Administrator | Jul 14, 2021 | Readers & Writers
Uh-oh BY HARRY WILDING Peter whacks the ball across the table. Eve’s outstretched arm reaches out and sends it back to him, over the tiny net. He manages to return it, just, but it bounces high, leaving Eve with the perfect match-winning opportunity. She watches the... 
by Administrator | Jul 7, 2021 | Readers & Writers
Sky Mirror In you I see myself, in a city of rebels, Coriolanus is striding, circles in circles, light is bouncing, skyline ever-present, in a welcoming dance across Wellington Circus. London plane trees watch St Barnabas, the face of Anish Kapoor illuminates people,...