One Story, Many Endings - We Made This

One Story, Many Endings

The Ministry of Stories recently hosted a conference, Write for a Bright Future, the first gathering of all the projects around the world inspired by Dave Eggers' and Ninive Clements Calegari's 826 organisation in the USA.

Over 150 delegates attended from centres all over the world - including Roddy Doyle's Fighting Words in Belfast and Dublin; Story Planet in Toronto; Sydney Story Factory in, well, Sydney; Porto delle Storie in Florence; and from a host of other centres, including of course 826 itself.

One of the many highlights of the conference was getting Dave Eggers, Nick Hornby and Roddy Doyle together to be interviewed by three students from the Ministry. Check out the video above – it's well worth a watch.

Read more about our work for the Ministry here.

posted: 18 August 2015
categories: Events | Ministry of Stories

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