PALEWELL PRESS

Thanks to all of you for the wonderful set of manuscript submissions for potential publication next year. Our editors are working through them to create a short-list. We will get back to everyone as soon as possible but at least before 30/9/25

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 transcribed 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.

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!