An anthology of stories on migration

In 2021 we worked with the social enterprise TogetherintheUK to help promote their creative writing competition for migrants in the UK.

At the time Teresa Norman, Co-founder of TogetherintheUK, confided that they hoped to some day be able to publish a book of migrant stories.

Only two years later they have made this a reality with the publication of Hear Our Stories: An Anthology of Stories on Migration, edited by Teresa Norman, Sinead Mangan-McHale and Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes.

We were so pleased to receive our copy and immerse ourselves in other people’s worlds through reading these beautiful, haunting and inspiring stories.

You can order your copy here. The book launch will be on September 28th and the details for attending are available here. And we also encourage you to post about this book on social media with the #storiesnotstatistics.

Kim Leadbeater MP, Member of Parliament for Batley and Spen said: 'Stories are more powerful than statistics; they help us to make connections and to understand just how much we all have in common. Hear Our Stories is full of courage and hope, heartache and loneliness, sacrifice and determination. We can all learn to open our hearts to others through reading this collection of lived migrant experiences. Words bring us closer together, and these are stories which need to be told and need to be heard.”

And Lord Alf Dubs, who was a judge for TogetherintheUK’s writing competition said: “I hope that by reading these journey stories, you will have a greater understanding of the challenges migrants and refugees face and open your hearts to be kind and welcoming.”