London
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Free Word People: Siobhan McGrath
Free Word's newest staff member on fixing printers, the importance of cake and playing Dick Whittington in the Christmas panto.
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Free Word People: Emma Cleave
Free Word interviews English PEN's Emma Cleave about writing in translation, overflowing inboxes and falafel for £2.50
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Meet the Neighbours - Clerkenwell Tales
Free Word’s friendly neighbourhood bookshop Clerkenwell Tales has been open since 2009 under the stewardship of Peter Ho. We caught up with this local bookseller, who can often be spotted manning the bookstall at Free Word’s events, to talk books, Clerkenwell and what reading means to him. Interview by Tom Chivers.
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Olympic ideal puts money before democracy
In this article, Leah Borromeo of Index on Censorship explains how the 2012 games in London could damage free expression in the United Kingdom.
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Shake the Dust youth poetry competition launches
Hosted by Apples and Snakes, Shake the Dust is a massive youth poetry competition that involves people from the spoken word world at every level. In this blog post, Apples and Snakes' Digital and Marketing Assistant Dan Simpson lays out the competition process and sheds light on its role in empowering poets and educators alike.
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A New Market for Translation
Last Sunday, something strange happened at Brick Lane market. As well as the usual hawkers, hipsters and heavily-accented tourists, there was something else going on: the first ever run-through of the Wordkeys translation game was taking place, and by golly was it fun! The idea first surfaced when I came across the brilliant work Coney had done with their real-world…
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Events at the Free Word Centre
Free Word Centre hosts a wide range of exciting events, from poetry readings to debates, and from lectures to launches. This short film features an interview with Free Word’s first Director Shreela Ghosh, a multi-lingual reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a graphic novel workshop for young people, an outdoor poetry performance by John Hegley, discussion…
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Libraries unite to continue to tackle children’s literacy
The Summer Reading Challenge is a pivot for developing better joint literacy work between libraries and schools. Created and run by The Reading Agency with libraries, this year’s Summer Reading Challenge had the highest rate of involvement ever with 97% of UK library authorities participating.
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In touch with the Olympics
Booktrust associate Alexandra Strick looks at some of the projects planned to help inspire disabled children in the UK to celebrate and participate in the upcoming 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.