by Administrator | Dec 6, 2021 | Quick Reads
In ‘normal times’, I’d be writing this in Paris. But instead of cancelling their 12th Youth Forum, UNESCO decided to host the bi-annual international conference not in their French HQ, but over Zoom. And, as I was chosen to be this year’s UK delegate to the Forum...
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 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 | Mar 17, 2021 | News & Press
World Poetry Day takes place on 21 March, and was first declared by UNESCO during its 30th General Conference in Paris in 1999, with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be...
by Administrator | Dec 11, 2020 | Quick Reads
DB: David Belbin, Author; Creative Writing lecturer and former trustee of Nottingham Playhouse / PH: Pippa Hennessy; former development director at Nottingham Writers’ Studio / CA: Catharine Arnold; Writer, former councillor and Sheriff of Nottingham...
