We work with a merry band of partners to bring words and ideas to the readers and writers of Nottingham. We work collaboratively with partner organisations to develop new writing talent and produce events and programmes to inspire young people.
We want YOU to share your words of hope and be part of our exciting journey to showcase Nottingham’s young writers. Whether you tell us about your experience of lockdown, feelings attached to activism, the places of the city you miss the most, or just a message of love to your city, we want your letters of solidarity.
Building a Better World with Words is an exciting new programme of live digital events taking place throughout June and July 2020.
We are collaborating with Five Leaves Bookshop to welcome a number of brilliant UK & international authors to discuss their works and talk about which books are bringing them solace during these challenging times. Each event will invite different authors, introduce a new theme and see us collaborate with another international UNESCO City of Literature. The events are free and easy to access online. All the intellect, diversity, passion and joy of UNESCO Cities of Literature directly from your home.
Young Voices is a series of five creative writing workshops for Year Six pupils and teachers and for Youth Justice Service teams. The workshops take place throughout January and February and will be facilitated by a team of six experienced professional writers. Schools around Nottingham and Nottinghamshire are taking part. The programme will develop the confidence and writing skills of students, as well as celebrate their progress by publishing and sharing their best work at the 'Celebrating MyVoice' in March 2020.
MyVoice is a new city-wide Creative Writing Competition for young people between 10-25. We’re asking you to write about what is important to you. Tell us how you’d change the world by inspiring us with your own short story, poem, article, scene, podcast or film, so we can imagine it with you.
During 2019, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature has been working with the DH Lawrence Birthplace museum and Pop-Up Projects on a Heritage Fund-sponsored project to reanimate the life and work of David Herbert Lawrence, Eastwood’s influential novelist, poet and radical.
Young people from Hall Park Academy, Eastwood and students from the University of Nottingham Creative Writing BA and Nottingham Trent University Illustration MA have come together to address the big Lawrentian themes such as of identify, war, belonging and gender.
To celebrate the launch of East Wood Comics, we are hosting the Our Past, Our Stories, Our Future Symposium with two days of heritage and culture workshops, dialogues and provocations.
We kick off our ambitious campaign to encourage everyone in Nottingham to get reading. Books will appear in the most unusual and wonderful of places.
Meet the 14 Young Ambassadors fostering and building a culture of reading for pleasure in Nottingham. They will reflect on and explore what it means to be a UNESCO City of Literature, unearth uplifting stories, attend festivals and events, interview writers and co-produce a city-wide reading campaign to inspire more people to read.
Poetry Pulse is a new project looking at how digital media and technology can help us capture the work our poets are doing, so that we can showcase our poetry to each other, regionally, nationally - and internationally, through our network of 28 Cities of Literature.
Georgina Wilding is Nottingham’s Young Poet Laureate, on a mission to show the world what wonderful things Nottingham can do with words.
Notts is set to lead a new project to attract more American visitors to the area in partnership with Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, Visit Hampshire and Shakespeare’s England.
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