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Projects

Creative writing is a great way to explore the world and whether it's your first time picking up a pen or the way you spend most your days, there is something deeply inspiring and exciting about creating and sharing work with other people taking that same journey.

Our project work gives people a chance to write, create and develop in all sorts of wonderful ways. We work with writers in prisons, museums and schools, and with universities, community groups, individual writers, visual artists, and musicians, as well as other arts organisations throughout the region, on developing a wide range of projects, and commissioning and publishing new writing for the radio, the web, postcards and books

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The Midland Hotel

The Midland Hotel is a collaborative photographic and literature project comprising of a book of the work of two artists: photographer Simon Webb and novelist Sarah Hall.

 Midland Hotel Book

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Prisons

"The view from my house..."

Writing and art from Lancashire prisons

Still from HMP Preston film No. 1

Still from HMP Preston film No. 2  

6 March - 5 April 2009
At Preston Harris library, Market Square, Preston

Litfest presents an exhibition of new poetry and prose, visual art and film from a series of residencies in each of the prisons in Lancashire. Some of the region's best writers and artists collaborated with offenders to produce work that is insightful, reflective, often funny, and accomplished.

Some of this work was recorded and made into CDs for the men to keep as well as being broadcast on BBC Radio Lancashire in June 2008.

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The exhibition will tour to libraries in the county throughout 2009.

 

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