The Hearth Centre is a centre for Health, Education and the Humanities with Art at the Heart. Hearth uses the arts to animate key issues in mental health, social care and the humanities, and promote well being - which we do through theatre productions and literary events and courses.
Writers Reading Group Online at the MAC
Sign up for our wonderful Writers' Reading Group Online this spring at the Midlands Arts Centre! As usual we meet fortnightly on Wednesdays , for a six week course, starting on April 21st.
As it's online- you can sign up from wherever you are in the country. Click here for full details of the course and here to discover the check out the extraordinary creativity of the Writers Reading group in lockdown.
Booker Prize
Breaking News! The Writers’ Reading Group has been selected to shadow the Booker Prize again for the third time!! We shadowed the International Booker and the Booker in 2018- and absolutely loved reading Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes and The Long Take by Robin Robertson- and now its the turn of This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga.
Click here for a summary of our discussion if you want to know all about this book before you hear news of the winner in a couple of weeks time.
Tales of Lockdown News
Congratulations to everyone whose work has been posted on the Tales of Lockdown blog so far. Please check the three sections of Living in Times of National Emergency – Lockdown, Epidemics and War to see if we have already included your work.
But to everyone who submitted pieces to the Hearth Centre’s Tales of Lockdown blog: A big thank you and apologies for the delay, but we will be getting in touch with you by email to let you know if your work has been selected for:
Inclusion on the blog
Inclusion in the printed anthology ( planned for publication later in 2020)
As a prize winner
