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 members shares news from their group. Taking Part in the Big Scottish Book Club Laurence Errington is a member of our shared reading group at the Grassmarket Community Project. It used to be BC and AD. Now, in 2020 …
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 …
Open Book co-founder Marjorie Lotfi was a guest on the Bookshop Band Breakfast show at Wigtown Book Festival – see her chat all things Open Book via the link here
Open Book takes over the Wigtown Book Festival podcast as Claire and Marjorie discuss an extract from Luis Sagasti’s book ‘A Musical Offering’ and poetry by Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize winner Alycia Pirmohamed. Marjorie also chaired a discussion with Luis Sagasti at the Wigtown Book Festival on 3th October. You can watch it on catch-up …
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In the first part of the Open Book takeover of the Wigtown Book Festival podcast, Claire and Marjorie discuss an extract of Chitra Ramaswamy’s writing from the anthology of nature writing ‘Antlers of Water’, and poetry by Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize winner Alycia Pirmohamed. You can catch up with Chitra’s and Alycia’s readings at …
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