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Our projects celebrate community stories, creativity, and the power of connection across generations. By collaborating with local organisations, schools, and emerging writers, we aim to give people a voice and share their stories.
What[areyour]3Words is a community project by The Writers’ Block taking the concept of What3Words as a unique location device, and turning it into a method of story generation and collection.
Can you think of three words to describe yourself? Or three words to sum up how you feel today? How about three words of hope or three words of friendship? Find out more about the project, how you can take part and our special StoryCache trail!
In May half-term 2026 we collaborated with Trevow Helston to pop up all over town with workshops, events and immersive storytelling trails!
Participants encountered colourful characters, enchanting worlds, and costumes galore, and had fun creating their very own characters and stories. Across the week, there were a variety of workshops, events, and drop-in sessions for all ages. From hidden story trails to mapping memories, from manga to zine-making, from poetry to postcards.
The extraordinary archive of Bill Mitchell.
The Writers’ Block hosted the Bill’s Attic Writers’ Room in November 2025, led by Annamaria Murphy and inspired by the extraordinary archive of Bill Mitchell. Across three intensive workshops at The Ladder, writers Sonia Thakurdesai, Rosie Hadden and Hanna Kubbutat-Byrne explored Bill’s imaginative world of objects, sketches, ephemera and theatrical ideas to create new experimental writing.
Collecting and showcasing stories from Cornwall’s global majority community.
The Writers’ Block, in collaboration with Bev Bevington of Cocobean Cornwall, has been collecting and celebrating the stories of Global Majority members living and working in Cornwall through an intergenerational project with local schools, to raise awareness of the lives and heritage of the community in Cornwall.
Led john Wedgwood Clarke, the Weather Station invited three emerging writers to explore how poetry can act as a kind of weather station.
Writers Karen Howse, Holly Boyden and Jackie Taylor spend the week thinking about how poetry could hold wildly different kinds of information together in a mutually illuminating way. They made close readings of poems, critical and philosophical texts, their personal experiences and the environment around Bude to help them trace the way the climate and biodiversity crises were shaping our lives
A community story gathering and sharing project in Redruth, Liskeard & Devonport
Stories of Stuff is a project and methodology developed by The Writers’ Block that sheds light on the narratives woven into our everyday objects and the places we live. From Redruth to Liskeard to Devonport, Stories of Stuff captures stories of communities as well as providing mentoring for emerging writers in the art of story gathering.
A intergenerational letter writing project between year 5 students from Camborne & Redruth primary schools and elderly residents at Coastline Housing.
The simple aim of this project is to share stories through intergenerational letter writing. Writers met with individuals in Coastline Housing to share stories that led to letter exchanges with children from local Primary Schools.
We invited four KS2 classes to explore Cornwall’s influential women through song writing workshops with Angeline Morrison inspired by the Women of Cornwall exhibition at Kresen Kernow
In partnership with ASONE Students learned about notable Cornish women, wrote lyrics with Angeline, and worked with Christine Judge on music and vocals, culminating in a performance with 120 students.
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