Canary Wharf partners with Penguin Books to relaunch its free literature dispensers.
Canary Wharf has joined forces with publishing house Penguin Books to re-launch its Short Story Stations, offering free stories, poems and extracts. Across the next year new stories, poems and extracts will be available to print at each station in Canary Wharf’s Crossrail Place Roof Garden and Jubilee Place. The Penguin-curated stories have been written by some of the brand’s top selling authors including Salman Rushdie and Lavina Mehta, which can all be read for free.
Celebrating established and new authors alike whilst also championing diversity and inclusion throughout, different stories will be themed to go live at key moments in the year such as South Asian Heritage Month, Black History Month and LGBTQ+ Pride Month. Check the Canary Wharf what’s on page for our latest Short Story Stations x Penguin Books collections.
This is not the first time Penguin Books has given their readers access to their works in vending machines. Back at the very start, founder Sir Allen Lane created the Penguin sixpenny paperback which readers were able to pick up at train stations, corner shops and vending machines across the country. The aim was to make quality literature affordable and accessible to all – just as it is doing at Canary Wharf today.
At the touch of a button, visitors can print one, three, or five-minute-long stories onto eco-friendly paper, with the tales covering a variety of genres from crime to comedy and everything in between – ideal for commuters who are tired of Instagram scrolling on the train, or for those looking for a quick read on their way back from the shops.
1, 3 and 5 minute stories available now:
Empireworld by Sathnam Sanghera
Say You’ll Be My Jaan by Naina Kumar
Knife by Salman Rushdie
The Girlfriend Act by Safa Ahmed
Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan
Race and Education by Kalwant Bhopal
Location: Crossrail Place Roof Garden & Jubilee Place Canary Wharf E14
Further Information: Short Story Stations x Penguin Books - Canary Wharf