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A Little Aloud for Children takes to the Liverpool Bandstand
This Friday 10th August, at 12pm, The Reader Organisation's Project Workers will be reading stories and poems from A Little, Aloud…

Featured Poem: Sonnet LXXI by William Shakespeare
This week's Featured Poem has been chosen by Amanda Brown, Criminal Justice Projects Manager, who remembers reading it at school…

Lemn Sissay: Sparking the nation’s imagination
It's fair to say that the country, and in fact the whole world, is currently gripped by Olympic fever and…

August Masterclass – Out of the Depths: Heart-lift Poems
Calling all Shared Reading Facilitators! 'Out of the Depths: Heart-lift Poems' 1-5pm, 15th August, Blackburne House, Liverpool In the latest…

Featured Poem: The Day Is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This week's Featured Poem comes from Emma Gibbons, Older People's Project Manager, who has been enjoying it with several of…

Readers of the World: Greece (Olympic Edition)
Last time on our Readers of the World tour, we roamed the wilds and wonders of the East African country…

‘A Little, Aloud for Children’ Party!
Last week The Reader Organisation hosted a very special event indeed at the Liverpool head offices. On Wednesday afternoon, the…

Featured Poem: Epigram by Thomas Bastard
This week's Featured Poem is the selection of Megg Hewlett, Get Into Reading Project Worker for Kensington and Chelsea -…

Ready, Set, Go! … A Little, Aloud for Children in the ‘Book Relay’
Last week, A Little, Aloud for Children was spotted in Monmouthshire doing a bit of Olympic-style relay-running, as it was…

Rap…or Poetry?
From Niall Gibney, Community Development Assistant What do you think? Is this rap or is this poetry? I’m a young…

Recommended Reads: Coming up for Air
This week's Recommended Read comes from our Communications Intern, Amir Ali, who has been intrigued by Coming up for Air,…

Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain Julia Briggs Memorial Prize 2013
The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain is searching for writers across the country to enter the third Julia Briggs…