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Call For Your Writing

We are now accepting contributions for Edition 25 of the magazine curated by Janet Lewison on the theme of 'Second Chance'. The only rule is that these must be new pieces of work not published elsewhere. Please send your submissions by mid-day on Friday 5th November to info@worktownwords.uk

New contributors: please could you add your name and address and, optionally, a very brief biography (50 words max)

Edition Twenty-Four is Available

New pieces of writing are available Click Here - join over 2,000 other readers who are enjoying work from a variety of talented writers.

Wordsmith Workshops

We'll be holding workshops on the 23rd October -

Click here for full details

In brief the couses are:

*. October 23 10.00-1500: Writing short fiction
*. October 23 10.00-15.00: Writing Autobiography
*. October 23 10.00-15.00: Words and Music

All courses cost £10 and include a light lunch.

WorkTown Walks

You can find details of all our guided walks around various parts of Bolton and download them by clicking here

PHOTO EXHIBITION

Click here to go to our Lockdown photo exhibition - our thanks to everyone who participated

MASS OBSERVATION

check out here the section of this site dedicated to the MO studies old and new.

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BILL NAUGHTON

Bill Naughton is Bolton's most successful writer and achieved world wide success with the film 'Alfie' that was released in 1966. He wrote stories, books, plays and several films most of which were successful and some of the plays are still performed.

Life from worktown celebrated Bill's life with a festival that ran from November 2017 to July 2018 - details of which you can find in the Archive section of this site.

Naughton Resource Website

As part of the festival work was undertaken on unearhing more material about Bill,his writing and his involvement in the pre-war Mass Observation project..

We decided to share this information on a website which you can find by clicking here.