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Friday Night Debate: Creativity in prison

UNIVERSITY OF HULL, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 74X

25 Oct 2019

18:30

Free

15+

Should people flourish inside? In this second Friday night debate, Graeme Brooks will be joined by Russ Litten, Josephine Metcalf and Adam Calverley to think specifically about what creative writing can offer prisoners as well as those recently released. Russ is a local novelist who has spent many years as a Writer-in-Residence in local prisons and has recently with Jo – an academic interested in prison culture – published a book of creative writings by (ex) prisoners in Hull. Adam is a criminologist with specific interests in desistance (stopping re-offending).

Though creative writing workshops have been recognized as having therapeutic and practical benefits for at-risk groups such as (ex) prisoners, more conservative viewpoints suggest that we should not offer inherently “bad” people such opportunities. At this event we will explore these two opposing viewpoints and hear first-hand from two people recently released from local prisons, to understand the role that creativity has played for them both inside and outside. They will read their contributions from the recently published Hope Walks By Me; Justice & Liberty in the Lands of the Free, a collection that showcases writing from prisoners and those trying to re-establish themselves in local communities upon release.

Debate evenings are intended as interactive talks with the public, so feel free to come along with questions and ideas to put forward.

Venue Details

UNIVERSITY OF HULL,
Cottingham Road,
Hull,
HU6 74X

01482 346311

sdms@hull.ac.uk

http://www.hull.ac.uk

The University of Hull has been changing the way people think for 90 years. Our motto, Lampada Ferens, translates as ‘carrying the light of learning’, and over the years, we’ve shared that light with thousands of people from across the world. As England’s 14th-oldest university, we have a proud heritage of academic excellence, and a history of creating and inspiring life-changing research. And we have no plans to stop helping to build a better world.

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