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Could you be the next Plymouth Young City Laureate?

Mar 2024
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Our team’s World Book Day picks

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Two Exciting Events with Plymouth Young City Laureate Mimi Jones!

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We’re hiring a Programme Assistant (Maternity Cover)

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Children’s Writers & Illustrators Festival

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The Mo Siewcharran Prize 2024

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Charles Causley Trust poetry competitions

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New Trustees and co-Chairs for Literature Works

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Artist Call Out: Summer at the Quayside 2024

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Primary Colours by Laura Horton

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Applications for Word Space 2024-25 are now open

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Trans Is Beautiful by Mimi Jones

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TLC Free Reads 2023

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Word Space 2024-25 open briefings

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Women Speak Volumes – memoir writing at The Box

Quay Words

Quay Words are seeking a writer-in-residence for March 2024

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Word Live In Libraries Autumn dates

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SWRLS seeks Coordinator

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Wild Words Eco-Poetry Project

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Women’s Prize Discoveries 2024

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Queer Storytelling – online course from London Lit Lab

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The Book Edit Writer’s Prize

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I Am In Print Novel Award

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Introducing your new Plymouth Laureate of Words 2023-25

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Poem:99 Children’s Poetry Competition

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Nanjing UNESCO City of Literature International Writers Residency

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Heidelburg UNESCO City of Literature Writer in Residence Program

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The Writers’ Block – Creative Director vacancy

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Writing competitions for the Sabine Baring-Gould Celebrations in 2024

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Prague UNESCO City of Literature Creative Two-Month Residency 2024

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Seeking the next Plymouth Laureate of Words

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National Poetry Competition 2023

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Word Space 2023-24

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Case Closed

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Launching Word Live in Libraries 2023

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The Health & Resilience Project

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The Writers’ Block new Writers’ Room

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Mimi Jones is our Plymouth Young City Laureate for 2023

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Good news for Literature Works in 2023-26

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Speaking Volumes

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Community Writing project in Plymouth

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Wasafiri Craft Podcasts

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Out on the Page

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Community Writing project in Torbay

Quay Words

QUAY WORDS AND THE DEVON AND EXETER INSTITUTION ARE SEEKING A SHARED WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE FOR SPRING 2023

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Exploring ‘place writing’: Dialect Writers’ four-day writing retreat

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Quay Words Summer 2022 highlights

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Seed bed

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Holly Peters after lockdown entry 4 – still adjusting

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Holly peters after lockdown entry 3 – monthly ghosts

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Holly Peters after lockdown entry 2 – welcome back

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Holly peters: after lockdown entry 1 – like driving in a city i don’t live in

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Poetry cares: Poetry to share together at home

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Introducing plymouth’s laureate of words: laura horton

Developing Writers

Inspiring a new generation of playwrights: plymouth laureate of words laura horton writes about her plymouth primary school project

Quay Words

Celebrating national poetry day with the launch of quay words and libraries unlimited writer-in-residence tolu agbelusi’s poem ‘The women as usual were the beginners of the disturbance’

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Word Online: The highlights

Talent Development

Word Space: Connection, exchange and talent development

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The minuscule against the mighty – jane pugh’s writer residency at wheal martyn clay works

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Placing poets in residence, our poetry cares project in north devon and plymouth

Developing Writers

Discovering the joy of play texts – a blog by plymouth laureate of words laura horton

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Exploring land-based creativity in the community

Quay Words

Announcing the quay words anthology celebrating new and established voices alongside the trading places young writers’ competition winner

Quay Words

Announcing the quay words spring 2022 programme

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Chris white announced as first ever riddler in residence at exeter cathedral

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Word Space 2022-23