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National Year of Reading Project Director appointed
19 Apr 2007
The National Literacy Trust is delighted to announce the appointment of Honor Wilson-Fletcher as Project Director for the National Year of Reading 2008.
Currently Director of Marketing at the Southbank Centre, Honor will take up the role of Director of the National Year of Reading in November. She will oversee the growth and development of the year and its legacy. She comments:
The potential positive impact of reading on all our lives is profound. All the partners involved in the National Year of Reading are already rising to the challenge of permanently changing the reading landscape in this country and I am hugely excited, and very proud, to be part of that team.”
Director of the National Literacy Trust Jonathan Douglas welcomes the appointment, saying:
We’re thrilled to have Honor leading the National Year of Reading team. Her breadth of experience in publishing and the arts, and her success at the Southbank Centre and the British Museum will drive an inspirational vision for the year and beyond.”
For more information about the National Year of Reading visit www.yearofreading.org.uk
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1. Honor Wilson-Fletcher biography
Following a degree in English and History at Goldsmiths College, Honor Wilson-Fletcher worked with a succession of booksellers and publishers (with a sideline in freelance catering and running an interiors business) in a variety of roles – as bookseller at both Books Etc and Waterstone’s, as Head of PR at Waterstone’s, Associate publisher at Transworld, Sales and Marketing Director at Hodder Children’s Books and in both sales and marketing roles at Penguin. She also had a stint online with BOL.com, before deciding to broaden her cultural experience and understanding of the public sector, by joining the British Museum as Head of Marketing. She moved to Southbank Centre as Director of Marketing to prepare for the re-launch of Royal Festival Hall and the reinvigoration of the whole Southbank Centre site. She has served as a member of the Literature Panel of the Arts Council of England, was an appraisal panel member for the National Theatre, has served as a board member for Booktrust, Poetry Book Society, Well Worth Reading, The Edinburgh Book Festival and is currently a Board member of The Reading Agency. She has previously acted as a judge for the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Orange Prize.
2. About the National Year of Reading
The National Literacy Trust and The Reading Agency are leading a consortium of organisations committed to promoting reading to manage the National Year of Reading 2008 (NYR) on behalf of the Department for Children, Schools and Families. The NYR will run from January to December 2008. From January to March organisations and local authorities will be asked to take up the Reading Challenge, to pledge and plan their support. Delivery of the NYR will be launched in April 2008.
3. About the National Year of Reading consortium
The National Year of Reading is led by the National Literacy Trust and The Reading Agency; and is supported by Booktrust, the Campaign for Learning, the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, ContinYou, NIACE, Volunteer Reading Help and the National Youth Agency, with the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, Arts Council England and the Society of Chief Librarians.
