News and Updates

  While we were deciding what to do about National Poetry Day on The Reader Online I was pointed at…

Ray Costello, the author of the new book on the Liverpool black community, Liverpool Black Pioneers, published by Bluecoat Press,…

Radio 4 has commissioned a series of short stories, collectively called Transformations, to be presented each evening this week at…

News has reached The Reader of another literary festival in October. It seems unlikely that the Danish pastries and power…

Eleven months ago I began working on a Get Into Reading project at a local care home for elderly people…

Not unfamiliar to a regal presence, yesterday Cheltenham played host to one of Britain's most admired leading female actors, Dame…

Back in July we highlighted Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan as one of our 'recommended reads' (To read the recommendation…

My day at the festival started with a walk across Cheltenham's Imperial Square in the quiet sunshine of an autumnal…

Just added to the Features Page, an article by Brian Nellist from the very first issue of The Reader, over…

Yesterday, my day at the festival was bridged by two events that could not have provided two more different insights…

So what's it like in the Writers' Room on the first Saturday of the festival? In a word, busy. I…

Life Lines is an audio poetry anthology of some of the best poets writing in the English language today, including…