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October’s Masterclass: The Storyteller
Calling all Shared Reading Facilitators! If you've completed Read to Lead training, you can join Clare Ellis for this month's…

Featured Poem: Mattresses by Jean Sprackland
Continuing our series of Featured Poems from authors taking part in RISE events, this week we look ahead to our…

Niall and Munroe the Marrow
From Niall Gibney, Community Development Assistant For the purpose of this blog Marrow has a capital letter because it has…

Read to Lead, Ted Hughes and Devon
In honour of the Read to Lead course running on 29th-31st October at the beautiful Dartington Hall, we've been looking…

Worlds of Wonder: An Olympic Evening with Danny Boyle and Frank Cottrell Boyce
From Charlotte Weber, Liverpool Hope University Reader-in-Residence Pandaemonium, The Great Gatsby, Frankenstein, Jane Austen and Dickens – these were just…

Get Into Reading Wellbeing Partnerships expand across North West
Today is World Mental Health Day and The Reader Organisation is proud to announce that it has been commissioned to…

Shakespeare: Still current?
From Niall Gibney, Community Development Assistant Hi blog readers! I was shown this video by a colleague (our Volunteer Assistant…

Poems By Heart: A Hearty Success!
Last Thursday, which was National Poetry Day, saw a very special event take place in aid of The Reader Organisation's…

Featured Poem: Woman at a Window by Jackie Kay
The RISE project begins in full force this week, as the Manchester Literature Festival - one of the five RISE…

Frank Cottrell Boyce up for Roald Dahl Funny Prize
Congratulations go once more to The Reader Organisation's patron, author and all-round supremo Frank Cottrell Boyce, who has made the…

New Starts: Read to Lead in Dartington Hall
Are you looking for a new start this Autumn? Interested in the Read to Lead course taking place in beautiful…

National Poetry Day 2012
Today is National Poetry Day 2012, and while we think every day is the perfect opportunity to share some verse,…