The Red Room Company is a non-profit organisation based in Sydney, Australia that creates, publishes and promotes poetry in unusual ways. It was established by Johanna Featherstone in 2002, emerging from The Red Room Radio Show, which broadcast on 89.7FM Eastside Radio from 2001.
The Red Room Company concentrates on three core programs: Papercuts, a poetry education program that sees contemporary Australian poets visit students in primary and secondary schools; Unlocked, a workshop series designed to promote literacy, rehabilitation and self-expression in correctional centres across NSW; and public projects, that aim to promote the status of poetry in the wider community.
Read more about The Red Room Company: Papercuts, Unlocked, Public Projects, Board and Staff, Poets, External Links
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