Leading Writers Come Together To Help Grenfell Tower Fire Victims

London Writers' Week has announced that leading writers, including novelist Kate Mosse, are coming together to help Grenfell Tower fire victims.

The week, which is the writing version of London Fashion Week and which has announced all profits will go to the official fund to help victims, has announced details of two new sessions and a new donation ticket as part of this year's London Writers' Week.

Lawyer Sophie Khan, who represented victims of the Lakanal House fire and who has called for an inquest rather than an inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire, will speak on how writers can use their skillset to help victims and the importance of words in legal terms.

In a second session, leading writers and others including Australian Academy award nominee David Evan Giles, whose nephew was born in Grenfell Tower, will speak about their ideas on and experience of things writers can do to help, from running campaigns to other ways to use their skillset.

London Writers' Week has also created a new donation ticket for those unable to attend the week in person - in return for a donation, people will receive top tips from the week but also from leading writers including novelist Kate Mosse and BAFTA winning television writer Dan Berlinka, who wrote CBBC's first ever online drama, the award winning "Dixi".

Other writers joining the week including BAFTA nominated writer and director Gabriel Bisset-Smith, screenwriter Michael Robert Johnson whose credits include "Sherlock Holmes", directed by Guy Ritchie, and founder of the influential film organisation and festival Raindance, Elliot Grove.

Jennifer Tuckett, Director of London Writers' Week said: " We are grateful to the leading writers and industry members who are donating their time to help us bring writers together to help victims of the Grenfell Tower fire. One way anyone interested in new writing can help is by making a donation or buying a ticket to the week's events, all of the profits from which will go the fund to help victims. I think we can also help as writers by considering how we can use our skillset. There are some powerful examples of writers making a difference, for example Fin Kennedy's In Battalions campaign led to government changes. In addition, if writing is about reflecting on who we were, who we are, and who we can be, it's important we reflect on how we can best respond to and help with the recent terrible events in London".

Donation tickets, which include advice from novelist Kate Mosse and BAFTA winning screenwriter Dan Berlinka, can be bought at: http://londonwritersweek.com/event/london-writers-week-donation-ticket/,

100% of profits from the donation tickets and from the tickets to attend the week's events will go to the fund to help Grenfell Tower fire victims.

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.

This year's programme will take place during the week of July 3rd and is supported by The Tabernacle in Notting Hill.

For more information please go to www.londonwritersweek.com.