Putting it about
Putting it about October 12th 2023 saw a revival performance of Putting It About as part of the Birmingham Reps Great Revival of our Women and Theatre plays “Set in an imagined high security NHS hotel, Putting It About explores…
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Friends of Enemies News
Friends of Enemies News Polly Wright, Artistic Director of Hearth is very proud to report that her short story Friends of Enemies is published in the anthology Thursday Nights. Friends of Enemies draws on the letters to Polly’s grandmother from…
Pride Event 1st June 2023
HEARTH Pride Event 1st June 2023 The next hearth Centre event will be at the Heath bookshop. Hearth actor Todd Jennings joins Polly Wright to read their Pride Poetry Picks on June 1st to kick off the Heath’s Pride events.…
My City My Home Podcast Launched
My City My Home The project My City My Home was a creative writing competition run by SAMPAD in Birmingham, UK open to women either from or with a connection to Birmingham, Pakistan or Bangladesh. The project was part of…
The Return of Poem in Your Pocket
The Return of Poem in Your Pocket for the 2021 Bedlam Arts and Mental Health Festival: On the 16th November 2022 the HEARTH Centre presented an evening of poetry and prose from their 2020 project ‘Tales of Lockdown’. The event…
Poem in Your pocket at the Bedlam Festival: 16th November 2021
The Return of Poem in Your Pocket Does enjoyment of a good read and beautiful poetry improve your well being? Do you find that sharing the appreciation through reading aloud increases your mental well being? Polly Wright and friends invite…
Reading for Well Being sessions and Writers Reading Group News
Reading for Well Being sessions Polly Wright, artistic director of the Hearth Centre is running Reading for Well Being sessions at the MAC- starting on September 17th. Reading for well being is a shared reading approach in which short stories…
Writers Reading Group Online at the MAC
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…
Booker Prize
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…
Tales of Lockdown news
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…