Leave a Comment · Posted on May 26, 2020
Social Media to the Rescue – Jacob Waterall
Despite the unpredictability, emergency services have increased their presence across online social media platforms. This need to be visible and heard has never been more important than during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jacob Waterall takes a closer look at what having them in our newsfeeds means, and how we can all benefit from this digital outreach…
Leave a Comment · Posted on May 26, 2020
FREE online interactive experimental writing workshop
Interested in being experimental with creative writing? 18-30 in Yorkshire or nearby? If this sounds like you, then join, poet Vicky Morris, for a fun workshop exploring ideas about writing in experimental ways.
Leave a Comment · Posted on May 17, 2020
New Poets Prize Winners 2020
We are utterly delighted that 17-year-old Georgie Woodhead of Sheffield Young Writers, and 18-year-old Lauren Hollingsworth Smith of Rotherham Young Writers, are both winners of the international New Poets Prize 2020 – for their pamphlets ‘Takeaway’ and Ugly Bird’. Both have been part of the Hive network for several years and also attend Hive’s Poetry Collective.
Leave a Comment · Posted on May 22, 2020
Every Little Helps – Isabel Hawksworth
Since the panic buying of early March has relaxed – when Britons spent a whopping 60 million extra in supermarkets – shelves are back to being stocked and you can even get pasta and tinned tomatoes again. But what’s the current reality of supermarket essential services?
Leave a Comment · Posted on May 20, 2020
How Far Is Too Far? Isabelle Osborne
Track & Trace in the Time of Pandemics…Over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, countries across the world have reacted to reducing its spread and devastation in dramatically different ways…
Leave a Comment · Posted on May 17, 2020
Spring News…
Greetings from Hive HQ! Just a little update celebrating a few bits of good news (and let’s face it we need all the good news we can get right now!) and a few reminders… Firstly, the last bit of amazing goodness to happen before lockdown – Sheffield Young Writer Niamh Brownhill is the 2020 BBC Young Reporter National Gold Winner!
Leave a Comment · Posted on May 12, 2020
FREE online interactive creative writing workshop for 14-19s in Sheffield
14 to 19 from in or around Sheffield? Interested in creative writing and entering competitions but don’t know where to start? If this sounds like you (and you don’t already participate in Hive network groups) then we’d LOVE to hear from you to get…
Leave a Comment · Posted on May 11, 2020
Minding How You Go
For many of us struggling with our mental wellbeing, the worst thing we can be is isolated with our own thoughts for too long – under any circumstances. So, while we’re socially distancing, now is the time to get some space from the demons in our heads too…
Leave a Comment · Posted on May 6, 2020
From Stay-at-Home to Stuck-at-Home: a young mum’s lockdown story
Taping over the speaker of yet another Fisher Price instrument of torture, I’m momentarily envious of those in childless lockdown with all that free time – to create and knit and feed their sourdough starters. I’m also wondering, scanning the images I’ve uploaded of today’s cobbled together lessons: have I made a successful leap from stay-at-home mum to trapped-at-home teacher? Will my writing survive the endless demands of being a lockdown mum? And have I too learned anything in lockdown?