Write Lines is a youth poetry project involving students from Harrow Schools.  The purpose of the project is to introduce culturally diverse young people to professional poets and encourage them with their own creative writing. 

The schools and poets:
In 2006/7, three schools took part - Bentley Wood School, Nower Hill High School and Weald Middle School - assisted by poets Jacob Sam La Rose, Sundra Lawrence and and Charlie Dark.  This year two more schools - Sacred Heart Language College and Canons High School - have got involved with the project, taking the total to five.  The students are working with poet coaches Malika Booker, Dan Cockrill, Sundra Lawrence, Roger Robinson and Jacob Sam La Rose.

Last year:
The project culminated in a performance showcase at Harrow Arts Centre in November 2006.  The performance was recorded by the organisation penned in the margins for broadcast on the arts community station Resonance FM (on 17th December 2006). 

As part of the project, the students' poems were published in the Write Lines anthology, I.D. In addition, some of the students took part in the launch of Words Live 2007 at the Harrow Arts Centre in April.  

Listen to these clips, recorded at the Words Live launch on 16th April 2007 (MP3 format):
	Sundra Lawrence, poet and writer and the creative director of Write Lines.
	Two of the young people who took part in the project
	My violin - poem by Farah Aden

This year's Showcase will take place on Saturday 17th November, at the Elliott Hall Theatre, Harrow Arts Centre.  

For more information on Write Lines, or for free copies of the first anthology I.D., please contact: Dale Arndell, Harrow Council, Arts and Leisure, PO Box 22, Civic Centre, Station Road, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 2UW.

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