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Are you a current ÐÔ°®ÊÓƵ student looking for rewarding, flexible, well-paid work that focuses on creativity, literacy and community engagement?

Do you want to find like-minded people from across the School of Media, Arts and Humanities, the wider university, and from all stages of their academic careers - from undergraduate to doctoral researcher? Do you want to practise your degree learning in a new context and develop valuable new skills?

Join ÐÔ°®ÊÓƵ Writes! No prior experience necessary: all training is provided. An Enhanced DBS and NSPCC-certified safeguarding course will also be provided, funded by the University.

We run creative writing and literacy projects in the local and global community. ÐÔ°®ÊÓƵ students help design and deliver inspiring workshops for vulnerable communities and children left behind post-pandemic. At our core, we promote the value of creativity in human development and wellbeing, and the importance of literacy to access education and opportunities. It is a hands-on and exciting set of projects where our students are leading on the workshop design and provide the delivery. This is a co-created project working with partners, and involves student-led projects and interventions. The projects are fully funded and students are paid at the SU rate for all projects.

Current projects for 2023/24: Messy Page, Clear Minds journaling and wellbeing project; the HPQ Intervention; poetry workshops at local schools; a health literacy project with a Ghanaian partner; four x 10-week creative writing courses in local schools in Spring.

Past projects: a six-week creative writing course at Gildredge High; helping university students in Mumbai set up a similar programme to ÐÔ°®ÊÓƵ Writes with looked-after children in India; a one-day creative writing extravaganza with 90 young people from a local school; global writing cafes in partnership with a Nigerian art and book festival.

To find out more, please come to our 2023/24 Welcome Event in Arts A108 on Tuesday 10^th October, from 18.00-20.00 Refreshments provided. You are welcome to drop in at any point.

If unable to attend in person, please email Bronny Way (bw296@sussex.ac.uk) or David Russell (dr312@sussex.ac.uk) to find out more.

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