Criminal justice

View from our funder

How the team from Spirit of 2012 experiences Reading Rooms in Beyond the walls. Read more

View from a Beyond the walls participant

Find out what how one participant experiences Reading Rooms Beyond the walls Read more

Beyond the walls

Working with young adults in the criminal justice system Read more

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Verbal Chapters - December

Join us to read The Whisper Man by Alex North
"Don’t be scared of Reading Rooms, of reading and trying something new"

Spirt peer Erin shared with us her experience of Reading Rooms
Hollie McNish set to perform as part of 'WE ARE POETS 19'

About spoken-word artist Hollie McNish
The HUMAN Archive is now live

Free and accessible online archive of small Irish literary magazines

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Reading Rooms

Programme area 1 - Reading Rooms
What we do

Verbal is committed to bringing the benefits of literature & the language arts to the heart of our communities - through our own stories and the stories of others.
Mission and vision

Find out what Verbal does
Contact us

Contact details for Verbal
Andrea Doran

Director of programming
James Kerr

Chief executive
History

A short history of the Verbal building
Joseph Morning

Psychology Manager
THE THIRD SPACE

A cross-community and cross-border creative programme for marginalised and disadvantaged young people, delivered in partnership with Extern
Aoife Rodgers

Project officer for criminal justice

Volunteering opportunity

Volunteer with us on our Reading Rooms programme for children Read more