markandkate

Thank you to all the local people who have pledged money to this so far! We've now raised 25% of the total with 28 days to go. If you wish to make a pledge (in return for lots of rewards!), please go to: https://tiny.cc/selbookfest Many thanks, Mark and Kate The SE London Book Fest

We'd like to bring a new literary festival to the local area later this year and we need a bit of help to raise some money. Funds raised on Kickstarter will help go towards covering some of the running costs. Obviously, the more we raise the bigger and better the festival will be! The SE London BookFest is aiming to host 50+ authors over 4 weeks this November and to become an annual occurrence in the book festival calendar. The vast majority of the events at the festival will have free tickets available and we've already got three local venues on board so there will be at least 12 events in the immediate local area. Once all operating costs have been covered, any profit made by the festival will be donated to local foodbanks. The festival has been set up by the team behind Peculiar Publications, who publish several newspapers in the local area including The Peckham Peculiar and The Dulwich Diverter. Co-founder of Peculiar Publications, Mark McGinlay, who helped set up the SW11 Literary Festival and has worked in the book trade for more than 30 years, said: “We’re really excited to bring a new book festival to south-east London and to highlight literature in the local area. “It is now just over 10 years since we launched our very first publication and the festival shares the same aims of all our newspapers – to promote the brilliant diversity and sense of community that the area has to offer. “Many of the events will showcase the impressive local literary talent and give wider attention to some exciting new writers. “To ensure the festival takes place, we will need to get some funding. We’re very confident we can achieve this over the coming weeks. If you are able to contribute financially to our Kickstarter campaign, this will help us get towards our funding target." TO PLEDGE MONEY, PLEASE GO TO: https://tiny.cc/selbookfest You can get updates by following the festival on both Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) here: https://www.instagram.com/SELBookFest https://twitter.com/SELBookFest For further information, please email [email protected]