Young Women’s Reading Event

The Young Women’s Reading Event in the Norfolk And Norwich Millennium Library on the 8^th March was very successful despite a few microphone-height hiccups.  The quality of the readings was very strong and Matilda Pine played and sang with verve and originality. Charlotte Creed, the library’s Community Development Worker for young people aged 13-19 wrote in her evaluation of the ‘astounding’ quality of the entries.  The event attracted an audience of around 50.  The young women performed with confidence and what they said was thought-provoking, emotive and brave.

It was a very difficult task to select just one of the pieces for the book token donated by Jarrolds.  In the end, we awarded the prize to Mary Donegan from the Hewett School for observation, wit and great use of dialogue. 

All the writing had its strengths and there was a particular energy, style and excitement about it all.

We, the organisers, applaud all the girls who took part.

Thanks to Charlotte Creed and Gwen Parker at the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, Hayley Ross and Danny the librarian at The Hewett School, Matilda Pine and all the girls.  And thank you too to Jarrolds for the book token and to Hodder & Stoughton for donating hardback copies of Jenn Ashworth’s The Friday Gospels  which we were able to give to all of the girls who took part.

Words And Women in the EDP!

The Words And Women event at Thetford Library  was featured in the Eastern Daily Press on Saturday. The article can be found here and also a good pic of Clare Jarrett, one of our readers. 

Images from Fusion

People are continuing to send through images of our event at the Fusion Digital Gallery on International Women’s Day - for which many thanks! Here are a couple showing our logos up on the screens.

Cultureworks is editing a video of the event and we hope to be able to put this on the blog sometime next week.

In the meantime don’t miss Words And Women reading at Thetford Library as part of The Breckland Festival this Saturday, 12 – 1pm.

The Breckland Literary Festival - Watton

Today a slice of Words And Women read at Watton Library as part of The Breckland Literary Festival. Here are photos of two of our readers – Beth Settle and Deborah Arnander, and also of Anna Mudeka who provided the music.

Paul Young of the Breckland View has written a piece about the reading which can been found here. He also interviews Karen Kidman of Creative Arts East, Anna Mudeka, and Words And Women organisers Bel Greenwood and Lynne Bryan.

Words And Women will be also be reading at Thetford Library on 23rd March as part of the Breckland Literary Festival. 

 

Feedback

 Next week we should be able to post some photos and hopefully a video of our reading events. In the meantime here are a few more images from our drawing exhibition and also a few of the lovely comments we received about the work in our comments book:

‘Wonderful – really amazing and inspiring work ‘ – Laura

‘Really enjoyed seeing Clare Jarrett’s shapes/hollows/fruits. And Fliss Cary is an exciting new discovery’ – Anon

 

 ‘Some very lovely delicate pieces that are stunning. Shall be telling my tutor at NUA to tell the others in my class to come and have a look. The Mother & Daughter piece by Malca Schotten works very well.’ – Rebecca, Fine Art student at Norwich University of the Arts






‘Really strong show – quite intimate. 
Thank you.’ – Anon

‘Classy exhibition. Interesting range. Looks v professional. (Good to see two St Eth’s members represented.)’ – Linda C