Join Patrice as she reads from her Creative Response to her Writer On The Bloc Residency and hear from participants who have taken part along the way.

This closing celebration event is a moment to reflect on the Writer On The Bloc residency, what the artists have learned, what the community and audience have developed or learned and what WoW staff have noticed and seen throughout the community-focused creative residency.

You’ll hear from the writer’s Creative Response to the residency, an opportunity for them to put into words their thoughts on the experience, a reflection on what they’ve talked about with our community and summing up how they’ve worked with the community to develop their writing.

You’ll also hear exciting new voices who have had their work looked over by Patrice through the One-to-One’s, who will share the work they developed through the residency

Patrice Lawrence is an award-winning writer for children, teenagers and adults. Her books include Orangeboy, (shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award and winner of the Bookseller YA Prize and Waterstones Prize for Older Children's Fiction), Indigo Donut (winner of Bristol Crimefest YA Prize), Rose, Interrupted and Eight Pieces of Silva (Winner of Woman and Home Teen YA). Patrice worked for more than 20 years in the not-for-profit sector promoting social justice and equality. She is a 2021 Costa Book Awards judge.

This has been made possible with support from The National Lottery Reaching Communities Fund, Liverpool City Region Covid-19 Emergency Funding and The Steve Morgan Foundation.