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The Liverpool Hope Literary Festival Autumn 2008
Running in conjunction with the Cornerstone Arts Festival, the English Department of Liverpool Hope University presents its own international literary…

Event Review: Liverpool Readers’ Day
The Readers' Day, presented by The Reader Organisation and Liverpool Libraries, centred around three open audience events - a conversation with Frank…

The Penny Readings 2008: SOLD OUT
Edit: TICKETS HAVE SOLD-OUT! To add your name to our ticket returns list please email events@thereader.org.uk Now in its fifth…

Shipping Lines: Modern Poetry in Translation
By Alison Walters One of the sessions at Shipping Lines that fascinated me the most was the session by David…

Liverpool Literary Festival “A big success!”
Renée Hemmings and Sophie Povey reflect--well, maybe enthuse is a better word--on Shipping Lines, the first Liverpool Literary Festival. Seven…

An Autumn Afternoon In The City
culturepool presents An Autumn Afternoon In The City - FREE - Sunday 16th November from 12pm onwards: Our autumn days…

From Chicago: Election Night Elation
Earlier this year, Jane Davis went to Chicago to visit Rebecca and La Coya who run a literature based outreach programme called…

Featured Poem: Great Things by Thomas Hardy
In the aftermath of Shipping Lines Liverpool Literary Festival (reviews and stories will be coming up during the week), The Reader Organisation…

Book at Breakfast 2008: Clare Allan
As part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival, The Reader Organisation hosted two free and fabulous 'Book at Breakfast'…

Launching a Reading Revolution (and a Website)
Last week, as some readers will have noticed, we quietly launched the new website for The Reader Organisation on a…

Event: Food For Thought
What do you get from books that nothing else can give you? Come along to The Foresight Centre between 1-2.30pm…