Technology
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Upcoming Event: The Literary Conference
Writing in a Digital Age
Fri 8 Jun 2012
9:30amFree Word Lecture Theatre
An up-to-the-minute conference to make sense of the many possibilities open to writers today, with practical sessions, workshops, case studies, working examples, debates and networking. The discussions will explore the key issues facing writers, such as making and selling ebooks, choosing to self-publish or go via traditional routes, an exploration of the emerging international markets, how technology changes…
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Upcoming Event: Andrei Codrescu
The Romanian poet reads and discusses his work
Mon 16 Apr 2012
7:00pmFree Word Lecture Theatre
'One of our most prodigiously talented and magical writers.; Bruce Shlain, New York Times Celebrated Romanian poet Andrei Codrescu will read from his upcoming book So Recently Rent a World: Selected Poems, 1968-2012 and will talk about his work-in-progress 'The Archived Future (with life in footnotes)': an essay about the digital future and how to live with it. …
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Upcoming Event: Book launch: Rebecca MacKinnon’s Consent of the Networked
Mon 27 Feb 2012
6:30pmFree Word Lecture Theatre
The Institute for Human Rights and Business and Index on Censorship invite you to the UK launch of Rebecca MacKinnon’s Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom. Jo Glanville, Index on Censorship Editor, and Salil Tripathi, IHRB Director of Policy, will discuss, with the author, the challenges in ensuring that technology is structured and governed…
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Past Event: Livestream: Writers Bloc
Tue 17 Jan 2012
6:45pmFree Word Lecture Theatre
In a Free Word first, the launch of Writers Bloc will be livestreamed direct from the Free Word Centre to your computer. Writers Bloc is a pioneering project established by Zadie Smith, Hari Kunzru, Nick Laird, Rachel Holmes and Kamila Shamsie to investigate education and literacy around the world. In the first stage of the project, ten writers visited ten…
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Past Event: Which Way to Techno-utopia?
Wed 23 Nov 2011
6:49pmFree Word Hall
Over the last century technology has evolved exponentially and has changed our lives in ways that are too numerous to count. But what effect does technology have on wider society? How has it changed the ways we interact and communicate? Does technology have the capacity to change fundamentally who we are as human beings? Has technology freed us, or have…
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Stories to Touch
Director of if:book and Free Word Associate Chris Meade explores the digital reading possibilities of the iPad and Kindle for school children.
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Livestream: Writers Bloc
Free Word presents the launch of Writers Bloc, a new project which sends writers to report on education issues around the world. Tune in right here from 6.45pm on Tuesday 17 January to join the discussion in our first ever Free Word livestream.
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Welcome from Free Word Director Rose Fenton
Welcome to the new Free Word website! Featuring Free Word's programme of events, articles, regular blogs and multimedia, the site is also a gateway to the literature, literacy and free expression communities we represent. We hope it will draw you into the issues we engage with and the stories we are exploring. I have just taken up my post…
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Introducing the new Free Word website
Digital Editor Tom Chivers shows you around Free Word's new website, which launches today (19th December)
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US piracy law could threaten human rights
As debates continue around the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Cynthia M Wong reports for Index On Censorship that US policy makers must look more closely at whether the bill truly supports free expression.
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Down with the kids
Last week Marga Navarrete from Imperial College ran a Youtube subtitling workshop at Lawdale Junior School in Tower Hamlets. Marga has run this workshop many times before as part of the brilliant Routes Into Languages programme, but usually with older children, around year 9 or 10. This was Free Word’s only translator-in-residence event for children, and it almost didn…
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Free Word Translators at International Translation Day
Time: September 30th 2011, 9am- 6.30pm Place: Free Word Centre, London Themes: Translation (of course!), dialogue, new initiatives, success, sharing ideas, the importance of readers (thanks to Rachel Van Riel for a highly entertaining presentation that included telling us about the Which Book website, a site that helps you decide which book to read by theme, which has apparently been around 10…