2025 will be a landmark year for Portsmouth as we collectively celebrate our literary heritage, seek to collectively tackle literacy challenges, and showcase creative innovation.

This initiative aims to make a lasting impact, raising awareness of literacy challenges, increasing access to literature, and putting Portsmouth on the map as a cultural and literary hub.

Don’t miss your chance to be part of Portsmouth’s literary legacy and help shape a year to remember!

To celebrate Portsmouth’s Year of Literacy, Portsmouth Music Hub has specially composed a brand new song, The Things That Authors Do, highlighting the amazing work of 19 famous authors. How many can you name?

Here are some more captivating songs inspired by literature, composed by the award-winning composition team at Portsmouth Music Hub:

• Puss In Boots

• Three Little Pigs

• Goldilocks

• Beanstalk Blues

• Stories

• Cinderella

• Goodnight Princess

• Pull, Pull

• The Gingerbread Man

• Who’s That Trip Trapping On My Bridge?