Digital Book Club for Readers and Writers

Our fully digital educational outreach programme is aiming to nurture and facilitate reading for pleasure and creative writing for those in prison.

Led by bestselling author and creative writing lecturer Dr Caroline Cauchi, and CIC Co-Director Dr Josephine Metcalf, this book club is a fully digital outreach programme designed to support reading for people in prison.

The project aims to support literacy and rehabilitation outcomes for incarcerated individuals through the development and implementation of digital “book group style” reading and writing groups that can be completed on laptops in cell.

The Prison Library Connect website has published a blog from Dr Cauchi and Dr Metcalf about the project's impacts on participants: "When no one is watching: a digital book club in a cell".