Common Room is a publication project from Walkden House Press developed in collaboration with schools and young writers.
Working through workshops, editorial sessions, and shared reading, each edition gathers writing emerging from a particular school community and shapes it into a finished anthology or zine.
We’re interested in writing that feels lived, attentive, and present — work grounded in observation, feeling, memory, conversation, and the textures of everyday life.
Common Room approaches young writers not simply as students, but as authors developing a voice and a relationship to language.
Each contribution to a Common Room issue is also automatically considered for publication in The Parlour, our more selective local literary magazine open to writers of all ages.
Alongside publication itself, the project aims to cultivate local literary culture: writing as something communal, reflective, and shared.