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Reading in Devon: Eden Phillpotts
The Reader Organisation will be taking Read to Lead to Devon at the end of this month, but we're already…

Professor Philip Davis – Poetry Not Prozac: Depression and the Reading Revolution
The Centre for Research into Reading, Information and Linguistic Systems at the University of Liverpool marked World Mental Health Day…

Feel Better with a Book
From Lois Walters and Rosie Trustram, Get Into Reading London Project Workers On starting our new project with Southwark Libraries…

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…

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…