A regional daily is featuring a literary quote on its front page every day this month as part of a campaign aimed at getting its patch reading more.

The Star, Sheffield, is publishing a series of features, stories and competitions aimed at increasing people’s love of literature in the city.

The series will focus on the work being done by Sheffield’s libraries, and also discover how the NHS is using literature to help patients.

The daily literature quote can be found underneath The Star’s masthead.

Head of content Julia Rodgerson told HTFP: “The idea is to sing the praises of some of the wonderful reading initiatives in the city and let our readers know how to get involved.

“We’re also running a quote connected with reading on the front page every day throughout the month-long drive. The aim is to inspire our readers to immerse themselves in a great story and appreciate the simple joy of reading.

“Throughout October reporters Lee Peace, Richard Blackledge and Rochelle Barrand will be heading up the campaign and producing a series of features looking at the city’s libraries, reading to help poorly children in hospital, a local readers group and we will be giving primary pupils the chance to taste life as a journalist.”

As part of the campaign, Star journalists will be speaking at several events held as part of Sheffield’s Off The Shelf literary festival, which runs from this Saturday until 3 November.

Editor Nancy Fielder will look back at some of the newspaper’s most memorable front pages as part of ‘The Star – A Celebration of 130 Years’ talk at the Carpenter Room, Sheffield Central Library, on Monday 16 October, from 1pm to 2pm.

The Star – Crime Reporting seminar will look back at some of the most shocking crimes to hit Sheffield at the same venue on Friday 20 October from 1pm to 2pm.

The paper’s Retro supplement writer Julia Armstrong will talk about how Sheffield was a hotbed of radical politics at the end of the 18th century at ‘The Star – Radical Sheffield’ talk, also at the Carpenter Room, on Monday 23 October from 1pm to 2pm.