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Applications for Word Space 2024-25 are now open
Dec 2023Poetry Cares care home residency
Membership Officer vacancy at Devon and Exeter Institution
Trans Is Beautiful by Mimi Jones
TLC Free Reads 2023
Word Space 2024-25 open briefings
Women Speak Volumes – memoir writing at The Box
Quay Words are seeking a writer-in-residence for March 2024
Word Live In Libraries Autumn dates
SWRLS seeks Coordinator
Wild Words Eco-Poetry Project
Deputy Director role at Arvon’s Totleigh Barton writing house
Women’s Prize Discoveries 2024
Queer Storytelling – online course from London Lit Lab
The Book Edit Writer’s Prize
I Am In Print Novel Award
Introducing your new Plymouth Laureate of Words 2023-25
Poem:99 Children’s Poetry Competition
Nanjing UNESCO City of Literature International Writers Residency
Heidelburg UNESCO City of Literature Writer in Residence Program
The Writers’ Block – Creative Director vacancy
Writing competitions for the Sabine Baring-Gould Celebrations in 2024
Prague UNESCO City of Literature Creative Two-Month Residency 2024
Seeking the next Plymouth Laureate of Words
National Poetry Competition 2023
Word Space 2023-24
Case Closed
Launching Word Live in Libraries 2023
The Health & Resilience Project
The Writers’ Block new Writers’ Room
Mimi Jones is our Plymouth Young City Laureate for 2023
Good news for Literature Works in 2023-26
Speaking Volumes
Community Writing project in Plymouth
Wasafiri Craft Podcasts
Out on the Page
Community Writing project in Torbay
QUAY WORDS AND THE DEVON AND EXETER INSTITUTION ARE SEEKING A SHARED WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE FOR SPRING 2023
Exploring ‘place writing’: Dialect Writers’ four-day writing retreat
Quay Words Summer 2022 highlights
Seed bed
Holly Peters after lockdown entry 4 – still adjusting
Holly peters after lockdown entry 3 – monthly ghosts
Holly Peters after lockdown entry 2 – welcome back
Holly peters: after lockdown entry 1 – like driving in a city i don’t live in
Poetry cares: Poetry to share together at home
Introducing plymouth’s laureate of words: laura horton
Inspiring a new generation of playwrights: plymouth laureate of words laura horton writes about her plymouth primary school project
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’
Word Online: The highlights
Word Space: Connection, exchange and talent development
The minuscule against the mighty – jane pugh’s writer residency at wheal martyn clay works
Placing poets in residence, our poetry cares project in north devon and plymouth
Discovering the joy of play texts – a blog by plymouth laureate of words laura horton
Exploring land-based creativity in the community
Announcing the quay words anthology celebrating new and established voices alongside the trading places young writers’ competition winner
Announcing the quay words spring 2022 programme
Chris white announced as first ever riddler in residence at exeter cathedral
Word Space 2022-23
