Found in the Stack: Reading and Writing the Self at Darlington Library

Join Darlington Library’s Reader-in-Residence Louise Logan-Smith to discover the wealth of material in the archives. 

We’ll write in response to archive images. We’ll make found poems and blackout poetry from the library’s own texts. We’ll arrange book spines into something that means something. And at the end, you’ll annotate a historical map of Darlington with your own words, and take it home.

You’ll also leave with a reading journal you’ve already started, and the chance to have your work included in a display here at the library afterwards.

No reading or writing experience needed. You just need curiosity and a willingness to be surprised by what you find!

Click here to book your spot.

Photo credit Richard Gaunt, courtesy of Centre for Local Studies at Darlington Library.