The Nottingham Lace Anthology

The Lace Competition Anthology includes writing by children and young people from across Nottinghamshire who entered the Lace Writing Competition, run as part of the first Nottingham Festival of Words in 2013. They were free to respond to the theme of 'lace' in any way they liked, so long as their poem or story would fit onto a page of A4. The response has been inspiring. As one of the judges put it: 'our breath [was] taken away on numerous occasions by the originality of the writing, in both detail and structure, and the inventiveness of the work.' Whether you think of the finery of lace, the stories passed down with a family heirloom, or the might of the Nottingham lace industry and the plight of its workers, lace is part of the fabric of our city and intersects with our lives in many different ways. The writing in this collection finds constantly inventive ways to capture the many meanings of lace, and shows imagination and sensitivity to our environment and our history.