Young Enigma

As part of his PhD, writer Adam Lowe is surveying writers and facilitators who have engaged with Commonword's writer development activities over the last 50 years, including those who've taken part in Young Enigma workshops and events. The aim is to find out what's important to Manchester's writers, and how to better support a diverse range of writers both in Manchester and further afield. One of the outcomes of the project will be a guide to supporting writers more holistically in a variety of settings (formal/informal, grassroots/professional, etc).

Adam will also be directly interviewing writers who've been involved with Commonword's work over the last five decades, via Zoom. If you're interested in chatting for no more than an hour, contact Adam on [email protected].

Intersectional self-determination in the poetic voice of minority poets engaging with Commonword in Manchester from 1977-2022 You are being invited to take part in a research study as part of the PhD research project Borderline/Imaginative Caminos: Intersectional self-determination in the poetic voice of minority poets engaging with Commonword in Manchester from 1977-2022. For this part of the project, I am exploring how w...

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Against the roar of destructive noise, the minds behind TransBareAll decided to mark ten years of work by speaking for themselves, on their own terms, at a time when trans voices are rarely allowed to be heard.

This book is a collective endeavour of words and artwork. The contributors within followed the path dug by the few trans writers who are now starting to get some recognition, and took inspiration from the knowledge that within the trans community there is a huge wellspring of talent, knowledge and experience. The result is something quite extraordinary.

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TransBareAll - 10 Years, Still Here A powerful, celebratory collection of trans voices and artwork. | Check out 'TransBareAll - 10 Years, Still Here' on Indiegogo.

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