Don't miss our Campaign Gallery, where we will add photos throughout the campaign to show how Edinburgh embraces the The Lost World Read 2009 reading campaign.
2009 Campaign News
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Fri 20th Feb
New Short Story
Professor Challenger is back - in a new story by author Andrew Wilson. You can read the first four chapters for free, then come along to the Doyle M for Murder event to hear the rest live.
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Fri 20th Feb
Paper Cinema - new performance announced
The fantastic Paper Cinema will be putting on one more free performance of their unique and beautiful take on the lsot World - it's at Central Library on Thursday 26th February. Booking essential.
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Tues 10th Feb
The Word Spreads
Want to know a bit more about putting the campaign together? Scottish Book Trust has published a blog of a day in the life of half of the City of Literature staff.
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Mon 9th Feb
Digitally Evolved
Digital Evolution was under discussion last Saturday evening, with sci-fi writer Ken Macleod, in our Skinny magazine sponsored Lost World event. Continuing the high-tech theme, Ali & Anna from City of Literature got a sneak preview of the beautiful Paper Cinema - performances are coming to schools and The Forest Cafe's Golden Hour.
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Tues 10th Feb
Microstory Winner
The next installment of the microstory has been published at www.thelostbook.net - send us your 100 word entries now, and be in with a chance of writing the next section of The Lost Book itself.
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Wed 4th Feb
Audio & Read Online
We've now updated our links to the fab audio versions - you can listen for free to the BBC audiobook and the abridged version of The Lost World. You can also read along for free by downloading the books.
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Tues 3rd Feb
The Lost Book
Suggestions are pouring in for the script for Episode 2 of The Lost Book - you've still got a week or so to get your ideas to us before production begins. We've also had some entries for the 100 word microstory competition - get yours to us by Friday, please!
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Mon 2nd Feb
Updates to our Campaign Gallery
After a busy weekend giving away free books, we've had time to come back into the office (trudging through the snow clouds) and upload pictures of our weekend of dinosaur fun.
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Mon 2nd Feb
The Lost World Read has begun!
Starting with a special Lost World day at Central Library (pics will be on our Gallery page soon), which featured our giant pterodactyl, live South American music and bucks fizz, we began the big book giveaway. We continued the campaign with our first event - a poetry reading as part of the Lost Worlds poetry trail in the Glasshouses at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. There are still some books left, so get to your local Edinburgh library now.
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Fri 30th Jan
Scottish launch of The Lost World Read
With the help of Charles Darwin, Arthur Conan Doyle, Culture Minister Linda Fabiani and a giant pterodactyl, we launched the campaign to the press this morning at Dynamic Earth. We also unveiled the first episode of The Lost Book - you can see it at www.thelostbook.net - and let our big secret out of the bag: bestselling author Jasper Fforde has written the first installment of our microstory competition. Now it's all over to you - submit your 100 word stories to 100words@cityofliterature.com.
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Thurs 22nd Jan
Books are sent to schools
With the help from staff at the City of Edinburgh's Information and Learning Resources department, City of Literature staff packaged up and sent out all of the free books for schools. Teachers, keep an eye out for them...
You can find some snapshots of the 15,000 free books that went out to Edinburgh Schools in our Campaign Gallery.
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Weds 21st Jan
The books arrive!
Van loads of books arrived at the City of Literature offices, ready for distribution to events partners and book groups who have registered with us. It's the first glimpse of the new books for the office staff. All 35,000 have now been delivered.
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Wed 14th Jan
Facebook pages go live
You can view more behind-the-scenes photgraphs of the campaign and get instant updates through our City of Literature page on Facebook - you can also become a fan of The Lost Book animation.
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Mon 12th Jan
Campaign in detail - press release
It's the UK's largest collaborative reading campaign, distributing 200,000 free books. Find out more about who is participating across the country - read our latest press release online or download it.
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Mon 12th Jan
Our first pages for the 2009 Campaign go live
After months of preparation behind the scenes, our attention is now shifting to getting the third citywide reading campaign on the road. Today, the first pages for the 2009 Reading Campaign are made available to the public. It has the campaign overview including a listing of all the events, information about the different The Lost World editions, and a seperate section for local schools that will be joining in.
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