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2020 Celebration Event
View moreA video celebration of the young people who were involved in our 2020 publications, ‘The World and Me’ and ‘Our Global Family’.
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Shared Reading
View moreShared Reading increases well-being by connecting people in a range of settings to share, listen and talk about poems and stories
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Shared Writing
View moreCreative programmes for young people across the city, encouraging engagement with books, stories and words in many different ways.
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The Lexis Programme
View moreBooks of stories written by young arrivals and refugees studying English on the Derby College Lexis programme
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Schools
View moreEach year we organise Meet the Author events for all Derby’s primary & secondary schools, inspiring them to love books and reading
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Flash Fiction Competition
View moreOur fifty-word Flash Fiction Writing competition has been organised each year since the Festival’s inception. Each year we choose a different theme - one that can be broadly interpreted - and ask you to write an original story of up to fifty words.