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.
Poetry, Prose & Short Story Writing Workshop with Polly Wright
Looking to sharpen your storytelling? Come along to Polly’s exciting online creative writing (Zoom) workshop for SAMPAD on December 15th 2020 between 6pm and 7pm. Click here for FREE tickets
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
