As Hull Libraries and Hull City Arts have been generous enough to fund us again, we have begun Project H2! We have met twice now, led by Hull playwright Lydia Marchant. She was a member of the first Project H team in 2015, then joined the Writing Squad. She has also been Hull Truck’s Young Continue…
We have been working with sound artist Karen Lauke to produce a series of sound flights for Hull’s Amy Johnson Festival. Squad writers Katherine Horrex and Lydia Marchant together with Project H writer Astrid and Director Steve Dearden, wrote pieces inspired by archive footage of the great aviator and pioneer. You can listen to the Continue…
We are delighted that a group of last year’s Project H writers have been awarded one of the Amy Johnson Festival’s Living Amy commissions. We plan a series of sound flights, taking off from places in Hull combining the young Amy dreaming about sky with the older Amy exploring it. We are looking forward to Continue…
Over the last year Alex, Astrid, Josh, Lydia, Owen and Zoe have been meeting with Squad Director Steve Dearden and two grads of the Writing Squad – Katherine Horrex who grew up in Hull and Chaz Josephs who went to study and stayed to work. We talked about the city, we walked round the city and Continue…
Project H participant Alex Waterson writes … With the reminder that November is fast approaching, tonight’s meeting brought out the ultimate focus and inspiration of our project: Hull. We each brought in a photograph of or described a place in Hull and explained what value it held, many of us opting for peaceful areas such Continue…
Project H participant Joshua Murphy writes … ‘Writing close to home is writing connected to the heart.’ A quote by me, feel free to use it. This time our adventures in the James Reckitt room were all connected to Hull, one way or another. We started simply with sirens, and followed them across the city. Continue…
Steve Dearden Director of The Writing Squad writes … Tonight the second of our Writing Squad writers led the workshop, Chaz Josephs who is at uni here in Hull is currently in our Yorkshire Squad, Katherine Horrex who led us last month is one of our grads. This is what this whole project has been Continue…
The Writing Squad & Project H’s Chaz Josephs writes… This month, we arrived at the library expecting a different kind of workshop; it was going to be led by Writing Squad grad Katherine Horrex. That was not the only change in store. We were turfed out of the usual dreary reading room, and found ourselves Continue…
Project H’s Lydia Marchant writes… Angela Carter described the process of writing her subversive fairytale collection the Bloody Chamber as ‘putting new wine into old bottles’ and watching them ‘explode.’ Existing literature is the platform for bold, shocking writing; you can’t write anything new or ground breaking without taking into account what’s gone before. We Continue…
Katherine Horrex, Writing Squad grad and Project H writer writes … We met again in the oak panelled reading room of Hull Central Library, where Steve set some objectives for us to bear in mind on our walk through town and out to the marina. We were each to look out for an item that Continue…
Zoe Walker, Project H Writer writes … Wednesday marked the second meet up of our writers group and we were asked to bring in an object that was important to us, as well as remember a place of importance to us. The objects were as individual as the people and the stories that came with Continue…
Steve Dearden, Co-Director of The Writing Squad writes … Tonight we had the first meeting of the Project H team in Hull Central Library’s James Reckitt Reading Room. Hull writers Alex, Astrid, Josh, Lydia, Owen and Zoe met up with Writing Squad writers Chaz Josephs and Katherine Horrex. Over the next twelve months we will Continue…