We are LIVE for applications!  

Have you got a story to tell? Are you part of the Enhanced Protection programme OR a Frontline Worker? This writing opportunity could be for you.  

WoW and Culture Liverpool are providing free creative spaces for communities to reconnect, share and write, and we want to hear from you.  

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted how important community is and the benefits of connecting with others and sharing our stories.  

What’s Your Story? is a creative writing course where the group is just as important as the individual. Through regular writing sessions, we will capture your stories and this moment in time. How do we move forward together and create new communities? 

 

How to get involved?

Join us for 12 Weeks of FREE online creative workshops with award-winning Writer, Cheryl Martin, where we come together as a group to share our stories, develop creative work, and get published.  

Meet our WoW Writer:  

Cheryl Martin, Co-Artistic Director of Manchester’s black-led literature NPO Commonword and Black Gold Arts Festival, has worked as a poet, playwright and director, and was a former Associate Director, New Writing/New Work at Contact.   

 

Workshops will run: Thursday 30rd June to Thursday 15th September 2022 12pm-2pm  

Eligibility:  

  • Living in the Liverpool City Council ward. To check if this applies to you, please see the ward profile map.
  • Part of the Enhanced Protection Programme (this includes people who are Immunosuppressed or have specific other conditions, People whose immune systems mean they are at higher risk from COVID-19 or a weakened immune system or specific other medical condition). 

Application deadline 27th June 2022 1pm, (applications will not be accepted after this date).  

How to APPLY: Please click the link to our online Google form application. Please answer all the questions on the form and once complete press submit. 

Alternatively, if required for access, we are able to post you a physical copy of the application form. Please email our project worker, Lauren Buxton before the 8th June at  info@writingonthewall.org.uk, to allow us enough time to post.  

 

Join us for 8 weeks of FREE In-Person Creative writing workshops with Poet and Writer Toria Garbutt. Where you will come together as a group to share your stories, develop creative work, receive one to one mentoring and get published. 

Meet our WoW Writer:  

Toria Garbutt is a poet and educator. Toria is a regular tour support for Dr John Cooper Clarke, most recently on his ‘Luckiest Guy alive tour’ on which Toria performed her first European date. Her work has been featured in Edinburgh Fringe shows and most recently in The Big Issue North and The Guardian. Her first collection ‘The Universe and Me’ was published by Wrecking Ball Press in 2018.   

Workshops run weekly: Wednesday 6th July to Wednesday 24th August 6pm-8pm  

Location: Accessible City Centre Location  

Eligibility:  

  • Living in the Liverpool City Council ward. To check if this applies to you, please see the ward profile map.
  • Are a frontline worker (Work within Health and Social Care, Education and Childcare, Key Public Services, Local and national government, Food and other necessary goods, public safety and national security, Transport, Utilities, communication and financial services.)  

Application deadline 24th July 2022 1pm, applications will not be accepted after this deadline. 

How to APPLY: Please click the link to our online Google form application. Please answer all the questions on the form and once complete press submit. 

Alternatively, if required for access, we are able to post you a physical copy of the application form. Please email our project worker, Lauren Buxton before the 15th July at  info@writingonthewall.org.uk , to allow us enough time to post.