Freelance journalist Rachel Broady, a former staffer for the MEN, has signed up a host of local celebrities in a new initiative to promote the National Year of Reading.
Broady, who co-runs the Creative Collective writing co-operative and teaches at MMU, has recruited stars such as Dave Spikey, Christopher Eccleston and Carol Ann Duffy to write and send postcards from the pages of their favourite books.
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Spikey, for example, wrote from Paris in homage to A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
The cards are now being shown on the BBC Big Screen in Exchange Square and will then ‘tour’ the country’s 16 other big screens in a bid to inspire the UK public to read more.
In addition, postcards have been made available for the public to download and write, while they’ve also been sent out to reading and writing groups, libraries, schools, colleges and bookshops.
This gives people the chance to ape the celebrities and write postcards from their own favourite books, while also earning the chance to win £25 in book vouchers.
MMU helped to create and distribute the cards, while the project was developed and supported by Manchester Libraries, Manchester Adult Education Services and Borders Bookshops.
Other celebrity writers include Jenny Éclair, Peter Purves and Ben Elton.
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