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🎉 Celebrate 1 year of the Hull & East Yorkshire Creative Charter! Join us for a FREE drinks reception, networking & insights from our new report “Collaboration Without Borders” at @BizWeek2025 💡 📅 4 June | 4–5:30pm 📍 Hull Truck Theatre 🎟️ Book by 28 May: oneyear-creativecharter.eventbrite.com

Next up in our Radical Body Green and Red Flags series — we are looking at diversity and inclusivity! In this series we share things that make us feel supported, and the things that can raise concerns, when working on creative projects as disabled artists. Video description👇

York today to induct members of Squad 12 - it was Durham Monday, Manchester last night, more in Manchester and online Sunday. Building as a verb not a noun.

Hey! Here's a new blog post on funding rejections. Shout out to those trying to make things happen. ❤️ jamalgerald.com/post/funding-r…

Congratulations to Amy Luxton, who has won The Bridge Awards /Moniack Mhor 2025 Emerging Writer Award! This award provides focused development support for emerging writers of fiction 🏆 buff.ly/UtNJCDO

Performative Love is out! I wrote Performative Love as a gift to the ones that never fit in because they were made to stand out. Watch the Music Video here: youtu.be/unYh8vzO2T0?si… Listen to the track here: open.spotify.com/album/1zh4LU89… #rnb #newmusic #HipHopMusic #pop

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All lines lead to York today for Nowhere Places, Squad writers working with Stevie Ronnie & Steve Dearden to devise and produce personal projects in response to the climate crisis.

Still buzzing from last night’s opening of Stockroom, Stockport’s new library & cultural hub. Ruby & Lauren shared our Writing Stockport group’s poem, which you can read engraved in Stockroom’s writing tables.

Barnaby Horn has been nominated for The King’s Foundation Young Entrepreneur Award! Barnaby runs a couture millinery label that creates bespoke hats, headpieces and masquerade masks 👒 buff.ly/pBl8XtK

Does The Walrus have a right to adventure? Find out at Everyman Playhouse Liverpool from June 12-21st, for Billie Collins latest play! 🌊 buff.ly/3eE7MKF

The Poetry Society presents new poetry from two exciting poets with new collections! Join us at The Poetry Cafe on Monday 9 June to hear Theophilus Kwek read from Commonwealth (Carcanet) and Imogen Cassels read from Silk Work (Prototype). Register at bit.ly/KwekCassels

Check this out Illustrate Magazine | The Independent Music Magazine #musicmagazine #musicnews #feature #illustratemagazine #sustainablecurator: Performative Love by BITEZ🫀 : Review - illustratemagazine.com/performative-l…

Treasure arrives The Writing Squad HQ

We're offering a free workshop as part of Stockport's Stockroom Youth Take Over, this Friday 5-6.30pm sign up here eventbrite.co.uk/e/stockroom-wr…

(1) 🌍 Collaboration Without Borders 🌍 HEY Creative today launches a new report that makes eight recommendations to advance Hull & East Yorkshire’s arts, culture and heritage on the global stage. hey-creative.co.uk/collaboration-…

Elizabeth Gibson’s first full-length collection of poems, 'A love the weight of an animal', is now available for pre-order from Confingo 🔖 buff.ly/fCusdBN

We’re looking for a new Squad Coordinator - do you like admin, finances, new writing, are looking for 1.5 days a week work. More details here writingsquad.com/coord/

If you’re near Manchester Saturday night catch new Squad recruit Jack So as writers and anthropologists share their made in 24hr stories at Contact contactmcr.com/events/tiny-hu…

Ruth Awolola ran a workshop tonight as part of the Youth Takeover at Stockroom, Stockport’s beautiful new library & cultural hub.