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Did you spot our little yellow book? 💛

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Our second little yellow book has been making its way through letterboxes recently 💛🍂 complete with a beautiful oak leaf sticker.

Volume Two explores memory, and the quiet details we hold onto as a place changes and evolves over time.

Inside, you’ll find laughter, joyful moments, and colourful artworks created by residents at Wellington Vale Care Home 🎨✨ Our writer in residence Aoife Mannix also shares more stories and poems, including one celebrating local boxer Bella Bridle from Wellington Vale Boxing Club 🥊

If you’ve received a copy, we’d love to hear what you think 💭💛

Plot Lines is a project led by artist and writers, using storytelling to bring people together in and around Waterlooville.

The project is led by @studio_response and all our beautiful books are designed by @soup.work

Our second little yellow book has been making its way through letterboxes recently 💛🍂 complete with a beautiful oak leaf sticker.

Volume Two explores memory, and the quiet details we hold onto as a place changes and evolves over time.

Inside, you’ll find laughter, joyful moments, and colourful artworks created by residents at Wellington Vale Care Home 🎨✨ Our writer in residence Aoife Mannix also shares more stories and poems, including one celebrating local boxer Bella Bridle from Wellington Vale Boxing Club 🥊

If you’ve received a copy, we’d love to hear what you think 💭💛

Plot Lines is a project led by artist and writers, using storytelling to bring people together in and around Waterlooville.

The project is led by @studio_response and all our beautiful books are designed by @soup.work

Our first publication Plot Lines Vol. 1 is here 🥳

This free book is all about Waterlooville - its people, its stories, and the character of everyday life here. Inside you’ll find poems and writing from @aoifemannix and others, inspired by the places and voices that make this area what it is. The beautiful pocket-sized publication and bespoke “I ❤️ Waterlooville” stickers have been designed by the incredible @soup.work

Copies have been landing in homes across the community - if you’ve received one, we’d love to know what you think! Tell us your thoughts, share a photo, or drop us a line at hello@plotlines.co.uk.

#PlotLines #Waterlooville #CommunityWriting #LocalStories

Our first publication Plot Lines Vol. 1 is here 🥳

This free book is all about Waterlooville - its people, its stories, and the character of everyday life here. Inside you’ll find poems and writing from @aoifemannix and others, inspired by the places and voices that make this area what it is. The beautiful pocket-sized publication and bespoke “I ❤️ Waterlooville” stickers have been designed by the incredible @soup.work

Copies have been landing in homes across the community - if you’ve received one, we’d love to know what you think! Tell us your thoughts, share a photo, or drop us a line at hello@plotlines.co.uk.

#PlotLines #Waterlooville #CommunityWriting #LocalStories

A glimpse of summer in words.
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This piece by Han Newton features in Plot Lines Volume 2, created with residents at Wellington Vale Care Home alongside Kym Devine. The collection brings together memories, conversations and fragments of lived experiences.

Copies have recently been delivered to homes across the area — returning these words to the people and places they came from.

‘Do you want to go to the Seaside?’

This beautiful collage by writer Kym Devine is full of sunshine and anticipation for summer. The poem features in Plot Lines Volume 2 which will be available very soon indeed! Kym worked with residents at Wellington Vale Care Home and writer @han_newton.poet last year and Volume 2 is a celebration of the stories shared during their sessions.

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🎲 Play with Poetry – Today! ✍️

Words, games, imagination… come and play with poetry this afternoon @dragonfly.arts.centre

Join Plot Lines writers Anna & Lucy for a fun, FREE creative workshop where you’ll use dice, cards, character creation and game techniques to build your own poems inspired by people, place and PLAY.

🗓 Today – 7 March 2026
⏰ 1–3pm
📍 Dragonfly Arts Centre
🎟 FREE workshop

Perfect for young people aged 11+.

✨ Drop in anytime – all welcome! No experience or equipment needed.

Come experiment with words, get creative, and see where the game takes your poetry.

#PlayWithPoetry #CreativeWriting #YoungWriters #FreeWorkshop #DragonflyArts PoetryGames PlotLines

🌱 Seeds of Change – Writing Inspired by Nature 🌿

Looking for something creative to do tomorrow? Join Plot Lines writers Anna & Lucy @dragonfly.arts.centre for a relaxed, nature-inspired writing workshop.

Let the nearby Forest of Bere spark your imagination as you grow your own poems and creative writing in a welcoming, supportive space.

🗓 Friday 6 March 2026
⏰ 4–6pm
📍 Dragonfly Arts Centre
🎟 FREE workshop

Perfect for young people aged 11+ drop in anytime, all welcome! No experience or equipment needed, just bring your creativity.

🌿 Come plant the seeds of a new story.

#CreativeWriting #PoetryWorkshop #NatureInspires #ForestOfBere #YoungWriters FreeWorkshop DragonflyArts

And we’re not done yet… 👀
The day after Seeds of Change, we’re back at @dragonfly.arts.centre for something completely different.
🎲 Play with Poetry
Saturday 7th March
1–3pm
FREE
Join Plot Lines writers Anna & Lucy to mess around with words, roll the dice, build characters, and create your own poetry inspired by people, place and PLAY.
No pressure. No experience needed. Just imagination.
Ages 11+
Drop in — all welcome.

🌱✨ Our next FREE creative workshop is coming up!
Join Plot Lines writers Anna & Lucy on Friday 6th March at the fantastic @dragonfly.arts.centre for Seeds of Change — an afternoon of poetry and creative writing inspired by nature and the nearby Forest of Bere 🌿🌳
Come and grow your own ideas, experiment with words, and see what takes root.
🗓 6th March 2026
📍 Dragonfly Arts Centre
⏰ 4–6pm
👥 Ages 11+
🎟 Free — drop in, all welcome
✏️ No experience or equipment needed

Another little teaser for Plot Lines Vol.2 coming soon to a Waterlooville home near you …

In this issue Han Newton beautifully describes her memories and recollections of the area. She comments upon change and how memories are formed and alter over time whilst weaving in lovely conversations she had with the residents from Wellington Vale Care Home. This publication is full of colour, laughter and joyful moments and of course another special Waterlooville sticker has been created too!

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Plot Lines Vol.2 is getting ready to roll out soon and if we do say so ourselves this is a very special publication😍 It features new writing by Han Newton and Kym Devine as well as words from our writer in residence Aoife Mannix. Han and Kym spent summer 2025 running creative writing and collage poetry workshops with residents of Wellington Vale Care Home. In Vol.2 we share some of the beautiful and thoughtful works which the residents made.

Aoife meanwhile shares new writing inspired by local conversations, events and encounters – from a young boxer finding her confidence in the ring, to community acts of care, and reflections on nature and belonging. This short extract is from ‘Host’ an incredibly moving poem about an exceptional individual.

We can’t wait to share the next volume of Plot Lines with you all!

Our writers Anna Jones and Lucy Fackrell spent time at the end of September 2025 with some incredible students from Crookhorn College. The poems and pieces of writing created by the students were really outstanding as they explored themes related to Memory and Place.

This poem by Isabell felt too good not to share, I think we can all relate to needing a Calm Land sometimes.