Reading Places

Reading makes us feel better! Reading together makes us feel even better! Join us for shared reading events in peculiar places around the country.

What we’d like to find out

We already know that reading improves our mental health and cognitive dexterity, but what we want to find out is how reading communally, sometimes in peculiar places, affects your experience of reading. Are you disgruntled? Bored? Amused? Ecstatic? Do you want to be more comfortable? Would it be better if someone were reading to you? Do you wish the clock would stop ticking or the dog next door would stop barking?

We hold inclusive communal reading events in various places around the South-West, and we’d love to see you at one of them. Details are on our events page.

Meet the Team

Dr Elizabeth Wright

Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Bath Spa University

She has edited and published academic work on modernism and drama. Her play Vanessa and Virginia was nominated for five Off West End Awards including Best New Play and Most Promising Playwright and has been published by Play Dead Press. Her current research projects include an essay on anger and gender in literature and the Reading Places Project.

Dr Nicola Presley

Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Bath Spa University

Nic specialises in contemporary fiction and is particularly interested in exploring reading communities, both off and online, and their impact. She has published work on Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and William Golding, and is currently researching romantasy and its reception in contemporary literary culture. Nic is Managing Editor of Irish Studies Review and Publicity and Media Manager for William Golding Limited.

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Reading Places brings readers together

What we’d like to find out

Meet the Team