Open Book is looking for a Lead Reader to join their Prison Programme to facilitate weekly shared reading sessions in HMP Dumfries. The new Lead Reader will be joining a strong community of approximately 75 Open Book Lead Readers including a Prison Programme team delivering sessions (subject to COVID restrictions) in 9 Scottish Prisons. About …
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New Writing Sought Open Book is seeking new writing and supporting material for their Unbound programme. (https://openbookreading.com/unbound/) Seven awards of £175 each will be made for 1) a piece of previously unpublished fiction of approx 1000 words, 2) three linked writing prompts, 3) three linked discussion questions, 4) a link to two publically available poems …
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Following two successful residences with writers Jan Carson and Alice Ash, Open Book is looking for a new Writer in Residence as part of their Unbound project. The residency will run from June – December 2021 and include seven texts (one a month, 500-1000 words in length), to be included in our Unbound newsletter, as …
مفتوحة للجميع أو مغلقة لمجموعة محددة ( وذلك لدعم عوائل اللاجئين والمهاجرين بالتعاون مع: مول – دمفريز-غلاوي- رفيوجي أكشن (www.mool.scot ). قد يتطلب عمل المشرف على القراءة أيضًا تقديم العديد من جلسات القراءة والكتابة الإبداعية المشتركة. سيتم عقد جميع جلسات القراءة عبر الانترنت باستخدام تقنية الزووم. سوف ينظم إلى برنامج الكتاب المفتوج حوالي 75 من …
Open Book, in partnership with South Ayrshire Libraries, is looking for a creative writing Lead Reader to deliver monthly sessions for a new group. Beginning in a digital format on the Open Book Zoom platform, the sessions will move as quickly as possible to in person sessions at the Carnegie Library, Ayr. The new Ayr …
Find out what’s been going on in our sessions as one of our volunteers shares news from their group. Lead Reading in the time of Covid Carole McMurray is a Lead Reader who leads shared reading sessions with our National Library of Scotland Group. She also works with members of our Dower House Group. It’s …
Find out what’s been going on in our sessions as one of our Lead Readers shares news from their group. The Story of a Group Poem Lorraine Thomson is the lead reader who runs our Creative Writing group in Ullapool. When I first became a Lead Reader for Open Book, I was fascinated …
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Find out what’s been going on in our sessions as one of our Lead Readers shares news from their group. Portraits of the People with The National Lottery Liz Treacher is a writer, photographer, and a lead reader who runs our creative writing group at Brora Learning Zone. How to sum up …
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Each year all the UNESCO Cities of Literature meet to share experiences and ideas, and this year instead of being in Prague as was originally intended, the event took place online. Open Book’s Claire Urquhart spoke to Rebecca Raeburn of Edinburgh City of Literature about how Open Book got started and what we’ve been up …
Find out what’s been going on in our sessions as one of our Lead Readers shares news from their group. Reading Stories and Poems over the Phone with the Dower House group Sue McDermott is a lead reader who helps to run our shared reading group at Dower House in Costorphine, and at the Royal Botanic Gardens …
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