Common Room

Common Room is a collaborative literary project from Walkden House Press, developed in partnership with schools and young writers.

Each edition emerges from a particular school community, following a small group of writers through workshops, editorial conversations, and shared reading towards a finished anthology or zine.

Common Room approaches young people not simply as students, but as authors gradually discovering a voice and a relationship to language.

Every contribution published in Common Room is also automatically considered for publication in The Parlour, our local literary magazine, which brings together writers of all ages from across the region.

Alongside publication itself, the project aims to cultivate local literary culture: writing as something communal, reflective, and shared.