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Classics on Richard and Judy Poll
Back in June we launched a campaign to get a 'classic' novel on the Richard and Judy Book Club TV…
Contract Killing as a Not So Fine Art
One of the aspects of contract writing that is most difficult to handle is the lack of editing time. Contract…
The Reading Cure–Five Day Residential Course
Sunday 21st - Friday 26th September 2008, Burton Manor, Cheshire The Reader Organisation would like to announce its first five…
Featured Poem: Røros, by Julie-ann Rowell
Julie-ann Rowell is a poet whose first pamphlet collection, Convergence, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her new collection, Letters…
Make it Tall
Back in the early 1990s I was teaching at a newly-minted and deeply underfunded university in the Northeast. I remember…
Mace and Jones Short Story Competition
Leading Merseyside law firm, Mace & Jones, is launching a short story competition to coincide with Liverpool’s year as European Capital of…
Britten’s War Requiem
Sixty years ago, Liverpool and Cologne were on opposing sides of a terrible war. Today in an act of reconciliation,…
The Reader Abroad Part 2: Equipment
In which Phil Davis, editor of The Reader magazine, reads from Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian.
Children’s Storytelling on Sundays
From this Sunday - that's Sunday 6th July - until Sunday 31st August, The Reader Organisation, in association with the Bluecoat's…
Features: Reading Groups–The Crucial Factor
Just posted to the Features Pages an essay by Angela Macmillan entitled 'Reading Groups: The Crucial Factor.' Here's an extract:…
Recommended Reading
In Reader no. 30, we printed a letter from Maria Tierney in which she told us about the reading group…
Featured Poem: ‘At Burscough, Lancashire’
Helen Tookey is a Liverpool-based writer and editor. Her collection of poetry, Telling the Fractures, a collaboration with photographer Alan…
