FREE Secondary Schools Event: Wordpower
Wed 21 May 2025 | 1:30pm - 3:30pm


FREE Schools Event: Hostile Environment
Year 9, 10 & 11 students are invited to an event inspired by The Litmus School Writing Project to come and consider this year’s theme, Word Power. What’s the most powerful word you know? What’s the most powerful set of words? Why are they so powerful? When you think about it, is there a single word in existence that isn’t powerful?
Speakers: Jason Reynolds, Ali Smith.
If you represent a non-fee paying school and would like to apply for tickets please follow the link below.
Applications close at 3pm on Friday 15th March
With thanks to Trinity College and The Cambridge Union
Venue: Cambridge Union
Duration: 2 hours
In partnership with

Ali Smith is the author of Spring, Winter, Autumn, Public library and other stories, How to be both, Shire, Artful, There but for the, The first person and other stories, Girl Meets Boy, The Accidental, The whole story and other stories, Hotel World, Other stories and other stories, Like and Free Love. Ali launched a creative writing project for Year 9 to Year 13 students at UK schools with Trinity College, Cambridge. As Senior Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts at Trinity College, Ali Smith was inspired to establish The Litmus: Writing in Common, which she hopes will become ‘a writing collective like no other.’ Ali Smith is an Honorary Patron of Cambridge Literary Festival.