Readers & Writers

Readers & Writers is a writer-led education programme that aims to give refugees, offenders and young people in schools transformative writing and reading experiences.

For ten years we have sent writers in to prisons and schools to lead inspiring and transformative workshops, promoting a love of literature, improving literacy and motivating readers and writers who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

For the last two years, Readers & Writers has pioneered new work with refugee and asylum seeker groups, running innovative creative writing and reading workshops in refugee centres in London. Read the latest books - The Lights of the Lights and A Letter To Some Man - written by the refugees, asylum seekers and migrants we work with.

Find out more about our literature education work:

Our work in prisons

Our work with new communities

Our work with schools

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