Event Information
FREE: Parking charges apply
After our first successful event in 2024, we are returning in 2025 with a new venue Wollaton Hall and a broad and inspiring selection of professionals and organisations who use writing in their roles.
https://wollatonhall.org.uk/writing-for-life
This twilight event for students will bring together a range of professionals from various backgrounds to share their experience of using written and spoken language creatively in their jobs and careers.
A series of talks, interspersed with practical tasks, will give young people a chance for hands-on experience of using creative writing in different ways, and a chance to see the diversity of uses creative and descriptive writing can have in the workplace.
This will be followed with a chance to visit stalls of speakers and other local organisations to ask questions and find out more, 'open day' style.
This event aims to:
- Inspire young people to take creative writing forward into their adult lives
- Increase their awareness of the range of jobs and roles that use creative and descriptive writing on a day to day basis
- Broaden understanding of what writing can be used for in the world of work
- Create an interest in writing via awareness of how many different ways it can be done, and how many different uses it can have
- Offer fun, hands-on activities with seminar style talks from guests
- Create transferrable skills in CV writing, Personal Statement writing and confidence in composition and expression
Confirmed Speakers include
- LeftLion Magazine: Jared Wilson: Jared Wilson is the co-founder of LeftLion, Nottingham’s monthly arts and culture magazine and website. LeftLion started in 2003 as a project between old Nottingham school friends, it’s grown over the years and they’ve interviewed local legends ranging from Alan Sillitoe, to Paul Smith to Vicky McClure to Sleaford Mods.
- Emily Brand: Emily is an author & historian specialising in the long eighteenth century, especially the trials and tribulations of romantic (and not-so-romantic) relationships in England.
- Georgina Wilding: Georgina Wilding is a lyrically electric poet, performer, and literary advocate. A Nottingham native and the city’s first Young Poet Laureate, her acclaimed debut collection, Hagstone (Verve Poetry Press, 2022), explores themes of class, identity, and belonging with visceral imagery and unflinching honesty. She is also an inspiring educator, having taught and mentored emerging writers through universities, schools, and literary programs.
Confirmed Stall holders:
- Nottingham Playhouse: Nottingham Playhouse is dedication to making bold, world-class theatre, created and produced in-house. Our artist support programme, Amplify, prides itself in nurturing the next generation of theatre-makers.
- Writing East Midlands: the literature development agency for the region. We support writers at all stages in their careers, connecting them with opportunity, and helping them to help themselves.
- Nottingham Justice Museum: A multi-award winning Museum and a leader in public legal learning and education and in developing diverse collaborations and partnerships for our work. Housing historically significant collections of over 40,000 objects that cover the history of the British Criminal Justice System. The City of Caves forms a key part of their offer, exploring stories of social justice within Nottingham’s largest historic sandstone caves and the country’s only underground medieval tannery.
- Nottingham City of Literature: We run a diverse and innovative range of projects across the city and the wider county, aiming to give our communities – with a focus on young people – and emerging writers ways to find their voice, build their careers and see how words can literally change the world.
- GOBS collective: Nottingham spoken-word collective GOBS host poetry performances, workshops, events, book clubs, masterclasses and education programmes.
More to be announced Jan 2025
The Venue:
Wollaton Hall
Nottingham Road
Nottingham
NG8 2AE
https://wollatonhall.org.uk/visit/
accessibility information can be found here: https://wollatonhall.org.uk/accessibility/
