Writers, booksellers, librarians and writing organisations met at Charles Dickens Museum in London on Saturday 25th September 2010 to celebrate the launch of the UK's first National Short Story Week.
Around seventy guests met to talk about plans for the week, and heard speeches by NSSW director Ian Skillicorn and patron Katie Fforde. They were also treated to a reading of Charles Dickens's short story The Signal Man, read by actor Keith Drinkel in the drawing room of Dickens's only surviving London home. Guests included representatives from the Booksellers' Association, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), Exiled Writers, Granta magazine, Holland Park Press, Libraries for Londoners for Life, National Academy of Writing, National Association for Literature Development, Romantic Novelists' Association, Salt Publishing, University of the Third Age (U3A), The Write Lines (BBC Oxford) and Writers' Centre Norwich. |
