Festival Thanks
From dancing to Cuban violins and pub crawling to original poetry and prose, Wow’s 2009 Outsider Festival proved to be a huge hit, with an audience of thousands stepping inside our world of premieres and book launches, old rebels and new voices, and caricatures and chameleons. Miners mixed with sex workers, Zionists with Muslims, controversy with harmony, booker prize winners with Pulp Idol novices and cool lyricists with obscure artists, as WoW, with its daring mix of high quality writing and radical debate, continues breaking new ground and forging a unique identity amongst festivals in Liverpool and the UK. Our thanks goes out to you the audience, our fabulous volunteers, to our partners and funders, and all the writers and performers who made this year’s festival such a huge success.
We’ll be back next year with something special for our tenth anniversary, but don’t be a stranger till then. We need your continued support to help us shape our festival and the projects we run throughout the year, such as Liverpool Young Writers, and are looking for supporters and volunteers to develop events for next year, attract funding and expand our web presence. If you have any ideas and skills that you would like to contribute, or if you wish to become a festival volunteer, or even a trustee, we’ll be delighted to hear from you. In the meantime check out our gallery of reviews, photos and video from WoWFest 2009.
I hope you and all the trustees of Writing on the Wall realise how much you contribute to literature, both local and international. We writers are really grateful. All the hard work you put in during the year means that the soil is well ploughed for writers of all sorts to flourish. It is your effort, organising readings, competitions, publicity, funding etc. that enables writers to meet each other, discuss work and ideas and to present their work to a new public. It’s very stimulating.So a big thanks from all of us. We couldn’t do without you.
- Pauline Melville, Author of Shape-Shifter, The Ventriloquist’s Tale, The Migration of Ghosts
We’ll be back next year with something special for our tenth anniversary, but don’t be a stranger till then. We need your continued support to help us shape our festival and the projects we run throughout the year, such as Liverpool Young Writers, and are looking for supporters and volunteers to develop events for next year, attract funding and expand our web presence. If you have any ideas and skills that you would like to contribute, or if you wish to become a festival volunteer, or even a trustee, we’ll be delighted to hear from you. In the meantime check out our gallery of reviews, photos and video from WoWFest 2009.
I hope you and all the trustees of Writing on the Wall realise how much you contribute to literature, both local and international. We writers are really grateful. All the hard work you put in during the year means that the soil is well ploughed for writers of all sorts to flourish. It is your effort, organising readings, competitions, publicity, funding etc. that enables writers to meet each other, discuss work and ideas and to present their work to a new public. It’s very stimulating.So a big thanks from all of us. We couldn’t do without you.
- Pauline Melville, Author of Shape-Shifter, The Ventriloquist’s Tale, The Migration of Ghosts
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