dialect writers
Stroud
dialect /ˈdʌɪəlɛkt/ noun 1. a particular form of a language which is peculiar to
a specific region or social group. "the Gloucestershire dialect seemed like a
foreign language" WORKSHOPS - COURSES - MENTORING Dialect is an inclusive
literary development platform for rural writers. Our home is in Gloucestershire
but we reach rural writers all over the UK and beyond. Dialect is here to
develop talent, connect with communities and offer rural writers opportunities
to share their work. Our Story Dialect launched quietly in July 2020 with an
online Summer School of taster workshops. A programme of workshops around Stroud
Book Festival followed, along with regular critique workshops, courses, a Writer
In Residence scheme in partnership with Lake 32 and an Arts Council funded
mentoring scheme. We are now offering regular courses focused on the craft of
writing and immersive writing workshops in intriguing rural locations. Dialect
is now a Community Interest Company, committed to investing in literature and
author development. We will soon be launching DIRT, a plantable ecopoetry press…
Ethos Dialect speaks from the edges of things. 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.
