50 leading authors and illustrators have come together to produce a crowd-funded collection of stories, poetry and artwork with all profits going to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
Alt-Write: creative reactions to uncertain times is a collection of new previously unpublished stories*, poems and illustrations from leading names in the children’s book world.
The past year has delivered a tumultuous series of world events that has left people reeling. Authors and illustrators asked themselves what they could do to help and the answer was to do what we do best, to write and draw and create.
When you don’t like the story the world is telling, tell a different story.
Our role is to debunk xenophobic myths and make people think, help them discover the natural human quality of empathy.
Alan Gibbons, author
It’s wonderful that so many great literary voices are contributing their creativity and compassion to this project, and showing that they stand with refugees
Laura Padoan, a spokesperson for UNHCR.
Contributors to this new collection include
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The #altwrite team
Editors Mary Hoffman and Rhiannon Lassiter are a mother and daughter team with a proven track record in publishing. In 2003 they co-edited Lines in the Sand: New writing on war and peace published by Frances Lincoln in the UK and The Disinformation Press in the US. All the contributors’ royalties and the publishers’ profits went to UNICEF’s emergency appeal for the children of Iraq.
Links
Campaign page on IndieGoGo: http://igg.me/at/alt-write
Website: http://www.alt-write.org
Twitter: http://twitter.com/altwriteproject
