London Writers' Week Announces New Donations From Leading Writers To Help The Grenfell Tower Fire Fund

Leading writers including writer and founder of Fun Palaces Stella Duffy, writer and director of hit BBC Three show Ackee and Saltfish Cecile Emeke, playwright, writer and co-producer of The Handmaid's Tale Dorothy Fortenberry plus novelist and founder of the Women's Prize for Fiction Kate Mosse and BAFTA winning screenwriter Dan Berlinka who writes CBBC's first online award winning drama Dixi are donating to London Writers' Week to help victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.

Those interested in new writing and unable to attend London Writers' Week in person can now make a donation in order to ask a writer a question via email and receive advice on their work, on writing generally or on how to use writing to help.

Co-Director of London Writers' Week Jennifer Tuckett said: "We're grateful to these leading writers for donating their time to answer questions in order to help bring writers and those interested in new writing together to help the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire. As a London week taking place in July and as our co-Director grew up in the area and his nephew was born in Grenfell Tower, it felt important to help. We hope people will make a donation in return for the opportunity to ask these writers for advice on their writing, their thoughts on writing or on how to use writing to help."

Donation tickets, and the opportunity to donate to ask a writer for advice, can be purchased at: http://londonwritersweek.com/event/london-writers-week-donation-ticket/

This year London Writers' Week's programme, which is the writing version of London Fashion Week, includes contributions from John Yorke, currently the Creative Director of EastEnders, Kate Rowland, founder of the BBC's new writing department, Philip Shelley, who runs Channel 4's screenwriting course, BAFTA nominated writer and playwright Gabriel Bisset-Smith, Artistic Director of Boundless Theatre, one of the UK's leading theatre companies for young people, Rob Drummer, WhatsOnStage and The Royal Court Theatre, BAFTA wining screenwriter and President of The Writer's Guild of Great Britain Olivia Hetreed, Chief Executive of the Creative Industries Federation and writer John Kampfner and others.

100% of profits from the week will go the fund to help victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.

London Writers' Week partners are The Writers' Guild of Great Britain, BBC Writersroom, WhatsOnStage, Tamasha, the London Playwrights Blog, Playwrights' Studio, Scotland, the National Association of Writers in Education and Writers at Work Productions.

The week aims to provide access to and showcase the best new ideas going on in new writing in the UK, this year in terms of digital media.

This year's programme will take place from the 5th - 8th July and is supported by The Tabernacle in Notting Hill.

For more information please go to www.londonwritersweek.com

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