This past year we have been working with local school children and community groups to create a magazine celebrating the history of Cramlington. The project was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and involved over 180 people. Memories were captured and stories were shared, local ‘community diamonds’ were interviewed while celebrating the town’s 60th birthday. […]
As December is fast approaching, it only seems right we launch our Winter Writing Competition. Having had almost one thousand entries last year we expect to surpass that number this year and our judging elves are at the ready. The focus this year is on the place where we live. For anyone interested, please contact […]
In 2022 I was invited back to my primary school in Whitehaven, Cumbria, where my writing journey started. The school was celebrating its 70th birthday and the new Head Teacher was keen to create a collection of stories to commemorate the history of the school and the students over the years. For me, it was […]
This right here is the epitome of job satisfaction. I provided a reference for a young woman I started working with at Bringing Words to Life when she was ten years old. Having soared higher than she possibly ever thought she would, Lauren passed her GCSEs and A Levels easily. She went on to secure […]
Earlier this month we welcomed two students to the team at Bringing Words to Life from Ponteland High School and Thorp Academy. Both were keen to secure experience in the world of media and jumped at the opportunity to create content for the Beep website. Here at Bringing Words to Life, we pride ourselves on […]
You may have thought we had disappeared off the face of the earth, as we have been super-quiet lately. But fear not, we are still here. We have been working hard behind the scenes at BWTL to develop one of our writing programmes to make it much more accessible. Write2 is a culmination of the […]
We are delighted to be running our fourth annual Writing Competition this year for primary aged students. After the success of the competition last year that saw hundreds of amazing poems from around the region, we decided to keep with the Winter theme, this year asking our junior writers to write about the perfect place to be […]
Make sure you check out the Beep app. Now available for both Android and IOS. Check below for a guide on how to install the application.
We all ask them, some of more than others. More often than not, learning something from the responses we get. I love asking questions and finding out about people and things, possibly why I enjoyed interviewing so much. During my career as a journalist, I asked thousands of questions to music artists and professionals, immersed […]