PALEWELL PRESS

Palewell Press collaborated with Qisetna and Rawanee to stage three brilliant poetry events during London's South West Festival. On 6th July we performed in the Word Tent in St George's Square Gardens. And on the 20th July we were at Victoria Library and then in the historic Moat Gardens in Pimlico. In the photo, Camilla Reeve and Malka Al-Haddad are standing in front of one of Malka's poems, "Bread". It had been transcibed onto a sheet by Juan delGado of Qisetna as part of a poetry installation at Moat Gardens. Our thanks to everyone who made these three events possible.

In the next 12 months, we plan to publish a short prose anthology about refugee journeys, emotional as well as physical, from where a person once lived to settling into a new home.

We have received some excellent pieces, which are being reviewd by the editor. By 31st August, we plan to contact submitters to say if we would like to include their piece in the anthology.

Our Festival went extremely well. We'd like to thank our guests for coming, our authors for their vibrant readings and the writers who took part in our two panel discussions:

• "Sharing Refugee Stories" with Catherine Temma Davidson, Dr Anba Jawi MBE and Camilla Reeve
• "The Nature-Writer & Climate Change" with Alison Lock, Michael Tanner, Helen Boyles, Phil Burton and Camilla Reeve

And a very big thank-you to the people who helped Camilla organise the Festival: Jenny Messer, Nick Alldridge, Grace Tannen, Jeremy Wallace and Simon Lichman. It wouldn't have gone so smoothly without your help!