Love to write? Join the Citizen Collective!

Are you (or know someone who is) aged 15 to 18 and interested in …

🔎 journalism and reporting

🗣️ poetry and spoken word

🎶 lyrics, rap and songwriting

✒️ fiction writing and storytelling

💡 or nonfiction writing and how facts can be brought to life?

Well, we’ve got a most exciting opportunity to share…

Our free and online young persons creative writing group, Citizen Collective, is open for new members!

Taking place on Wednesday afternoons during term time, this weekly online gathering is a supportive and inclusive space in which you can:

📝 develop your writing skills

💛 make new friends

👂 hear from published writers

🛤️ go on cultural trips

🤩 and, if you’re up for it, perform at the Book Festival next summer!

Interested? Sessions begin Wednesday 22 October and you’ve got until Wednesday 8 October to register!

Find out more including how to sign-up at: edbookfest.co.uk/news/join-the-citizen-collective

Stockbridge Library Poetry Contest

POETRY WRITING CONTEST FOR YOUNG WRITERS!🤩

To celebrate the upcoming National Poetry Day on 5th October 2023, we invite kids and teens to enter Stockbridge Library’s Poetry Contest.

The theme this year is Refuge. No rules! Write a poem of any style or length. You decide! Drop it in the poetry contest box at the library and win prizes!

Entries are open from Friday 1st Sept to Saturday 30th Sept 2023

#NationalPoetryDay