Liverpool’s 2021 Year of Writing is a celebration of writing in all its forms designed to discover new voices and publish new writing through a partnership of arts and cultural organisations, writers, artists, educators and businesses as part of an inclusive drive to improve literacy in the city.
Creative writing plays a key part in inspiring and engaging young people particularly, but across all ages too, in writing, helping to improve their engagement in education, their reading and their imagination, as well as their literacy.
#Liverpoolwrites will be active and inspirational, inclusive and diverse, on the streets, in schools and libraries, on the page, the stage, digital, on screen, on your phone. It will be a year full of high-quality and fun events workshops, panels, courses, festivals and activities for all ages.
Liverpool’s writers are world renowned: Garrett, Hanley, Lowry, Lennon, McCartney, Woodbine, McGough, Henri, Bainbridge, Grant, Russell, Bleasedale, McGovern, Cottrell-Boyce, Deane, Tafari, Amoo’s, Hooton, Farley, Coe and Cox – the list grows by the day.
There are new generations in the city too, born and bred or bringing their talents from worlds afar, and new voices, in schools and in houses across the city, who will be inspired to find their voice by taking part in the #LiverpoolWrites year, which will include:
- Write Here Write Now: A city-wide launch with a writing activity involving the whole population
- Schools: writing competitions; Letters to Liverpool; Sharing/Caring words; Writing for online games; Coding and Make-fests; blogging and book reviews; Zine making workshops and the creation of new Zines by children and young people.
- The Writer’s Bloc: pop up writing centres in local highstreets and libraries.
- High profile Liverpool Writers in Residence throughout the year
- A writer’s marketplace and a Writer’s Boot Camp
- Competitions: Playwriting, novel writing, flash fiction and short stories, with a series of themes including the environment and recovering after the Lockdown/pandemic.
Write Here Write Now
Kicking off the Year of Writing events, is ‘Write Here Write Now’ – a week-long series of writing prompts for Young People by award winning author Patrice Lawrence and adults with Youth Theatre Director MandyRowe, so see what you can create.
To find out more visit https://www.cultureliverpool.co.uk/year-of-writing-2021-h/