Laura Richards

I interviewed three literary festival organisers for The Bookseller

The Start-up: Stoke Newington Literary Festival

Now in its second year, the Stoke Newington Literary Festival has been a very big project for its director, Liz Vater. As a resident of the area for 22 years, Vater got to know its rich literary tradition and saw a gap in the market. “Local literary heroes like Daniel Defoe and Edgar Allan Poe were not being celebrated. I went around other literary festivals and it dawned on me that prominence should be given to Stoke Newington.”

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