Write Up North 2024

  Hi and welcome to the very first post of our Write Up North blog. We are so happy to be working again with Blackburn with Darwen Libraries, Blackpool Libraries and Lancashire Libraries to deliver a series of 6 week creative writing workshops for adult beginners all thanks to funding from Arts Council England with support from the three library services. In 2022 we ran a similar project which was exclusively delivered online. This year we are able to deliver sessions not only online but also in several venues: Blackpool, Blackburn, Accrington, Chorley and Skelmersdale and we have had a lot of interest and demand. As well as taking part in interactive workshops, everyone who attends these sessions, will have the opportunity to write a short story of around 1500 words which can be included into a published and e-book anthology. All three library services will add copies of these books to their catalogues so everyone will have the opportunity of reading everyone's stories. There will...