Dialect is a new and inclusive platform for rural writers to develop their talent, connect with writing communities in Gloucestershire and the upper South West and access opportunities to share their work.

Dialect is all about writers and work that speaks from the edgelands. We celebrate the remote and the pastoral, the mountains and hills, the woods and the wilderness, the coasts and waterways, but also the small town and its suburbs, the retail parks, verges, dual carriageways, wastelands, lay-bys, scrapyards, agricultural spaces, derelict mills, industrial estates, motorway services, recycling centres, the spaces and voices in-between.

Since launching in July 2020 we have offered a programme of workshops, in association with Stroud Book Festival and as we move into the winter months we are trialling a membership scheme, offering writers a monthly critique workshop to share work and get feedback and a closed online forum for all things writerly. We also have a Writers in Residence programme and hope to launch a lit mag and podcast in 2021.

We can offer : Placements for interns, apprentices, volunteers, informal support / mentoring

www.dialect.org.uk

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