100 Poem Challenge: THANK YOU

Wednesday 7 October 2015

THANK YOU

Evening, folks. It's 11:48pm and I just posted the last poem for the 100 Poem Challenge - phewf! You can read all of the poems on this blog below.

Thanks so much to everyone who has been reading, spreading the word on Twitter, offering virtual cups of tea and donating over on Indiegogo. You've been wonderful.

Remember, all donations go to the FABULOUS Book Bus, who send mobile libraries out to rural communities in Malawi, Zambia and Ecuador, helping children learn how to read and tell their own stories. Check out their Twitter feed to see what they've been up to recently. They are some of the best humans.

The donation page will be up for another 16 days over here - as I type this we're nearly at £2500! - perks are up for grabs including handwritten poems on postcards and limited edition poetry pamphlets of all 100 poems. However many we sell before the donation page closes will be the number that are printed (they won't be printed again). The fabulous Leo Nickolls is very generously making a cover for the pamphlet and it'll be posted out to all who buy one a few weeks after the Indiegogo page closes, numbered and signed.

Stories, stories, stories. Stories for everyone.

You're all lovely.

Excuse me, I'm going to go put the kettle on.

Lots of bookish love

Jen xxxxx

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The Challenge

Jen will be writing 100 poems in 48 hours (6th-7th October 2015) to raise money for The Book Bus - a charity funding mobile libraries in rural communities across Africa, Asia, and South America, helping children learn to read. The poems will be posted on this blog as she writes them, she'll be vlogging on her Youtube channel as she goes and you can donate money to support The Book Bus over at this Indiegogo page here, where you can also buy limited edition pamphlets of the 100 poems and handwritten poems on postcards. All proceeds go to The Book Bus.

About the Book Bus

The Book Bus supports schools by providing mobile library facilities and volunteer story-tellers to help children become confident and literate readers for life. Working mainly with rural schools in Zambia, Malawi, India and Ecuador, our volunteer crew divide huge classes into small groups and inspire the children to read by personalizing the reading experience through story-telling, assisted reading practice and creative arts. This simple and effective support is sustained by provision of books and resources to each school library. Each Book Bus and its volunteer crew supports a cluster of five schools for up to three months. We make weekly visits to these schools working with up to 800 children from the cluster. The project finishes with an end of term party and opening of a new school library.

Registered Charity No: 1117357