A new episode of Sidedoor, Live from Worktown’s Radio Programme will air on Bolton FM on Bank holiday Monday at 10am. Presented by Dave Morgan, we visit Bolton’s Right to Roam Music Festival and talk to some of the bands and organisers. It looks at how the Bolton wellbeing charity Headspace uses creativity in its…
We are now accepting submissions for the September issue of Worktown Words on the theme of belonging. Exploring our place in the world, who we are, where we belong in terms of people and place – submissions open 1st August to 26th August, midnight. This issue will be guest edited by Louise Machen, Louise Machen…
The Return of Worktown Words, previously known as Networds. We are happy to announce the return of Worktown Words, the bi-monthly online creative writing anthology curated from submissions by writers in and around Bolton and are so pleased that Romina Ramos, co-organiser of Natter, has agreed to pick up the production of our on-line emagazine…
We’ve had a busy few weeks but with some satisfying results. Mass Observation Day 12th May Thank you to everyone who participated in Mass Observation Day on 12 June Mass Observation Day continues the work developed in depth in Bolton from 1937 to 1940 providing a bottom-up profile of everyday life of the town. Over…
We’re all really pleased to welcome Romina Ramos, an accomplished local writer and poet, to the LfW team to take on the running of the monthly poetry anthology. Most recently known as Networds, we’ve decided to revert back to the previously used title of ‘Worktown Words’. Romina has already sent out a call-out for the…
There’s a lot of action over the next two weeks so we thought a newsletter might put it all into perspective. New website In anticipation of the demise of our old web site we’ve launched a new one which you can visit here.This includes news, forthcoming events and links to our archived items. It will…
We’ve collected together everything we do into one place so that you can easily find our latest activities or look back at things we’ve created in the past. With a varied choice of formats and subjects, you can listen to podcasts of our radio plays, download self-guided audio walks, read on-line poetry anthologies or watch…
A warm welcome to our new website! For a few different reasons, we’ve taken the step of creating a brand new web site to help keep you better informed of everything we’re doing in Bolton, so that you can see clearly when we’ve new events coming up. Respect the past, enjoy the present, embrace the…
Thank you to all those who attended and performed at the tribute night to our colleague and friend Paul Blackburn at Bolton Socialist Club. We were able to present the British Heart Foundation with a donation of £350 from ticket sales. Write out Loud Sunday 7 April Join us for our next monthly open mic…