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Emerging Writers Programme
Learn about our mentoring and support scheme in this short film featuring mentors and participants in the Genesis JLF Emerging Writers Programme
23 May 2024 | 3 mins
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Emerging Writers Programme
Learn about our mentoring and support scheme in this short film featuring mentors and participants in the Genesis JLF Emerging Writers Programme
23 May 2024 | 3 mins
Book Week 24
Attendance for our 73rd annual festival rose by 15% year-on-year at Kings Place, London, with thousands more joining online. The line-up of over 90 conversations, performances, debates, workshops and talks featured David Baddiel, Sarah Bernstein, Simon Schama, Lemn Sissay, Hadley Freeman, Nicholas Hytner, Ruth Wisse, Anshel Pfeffer, Elif Shafak, Howard Jacobson, Henry Goodman, Ayelet Gunder-Goshen, Philippe Sands and many more.
Kings Place, London | Online
Book Week 24
Attendance for our 73rd annual festival rose by 15% year-on-year at Kings Place, London, with thousands more joining online. The line-up of over 90 conversations, performances, debates, workshops and talks featured David Baddiel, Sarah Bernstein, Simon Schama, Lemn Sissay, Hadley Freeman, Nicholas Hytner, Ruth Wisse, Anshel Pfeffer, Elif Shafak, Howard Jacobson, Henry Goodman, Ayelet Gunder-Goshen, Philippe Sands and many more.
Kings Place, London | Online
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The creation of the Jewish Literary Foundation is to be welcomed with rejoicing and hope. It will surely contribute to the understanding of Jewish culture, so desperately needed beyond the Jewish world as well as within it.
Simon Schama
The year always begins for me with Jewish Book Week – here are old friends, faithful readers, new writers, a great melting pot of ideas, talk, collaboration and hope.
Howard Jacobson
I feel that the most relevant place for every thinking and feeling woman and man to be is in the events of the Jewish Literary Foundation.
David Grossman
I loved being a mentor for the Emerging Writers Programme. My mentee and I had energetic, scintillating discussions about her writing and storytelling. In fact, I probably learned as much from her as she did from me!
Tracy Chevalier
Book Week has become London’s non-party parliament, distinguished from the other one by people listening as well as talking. It’s the best.
David Hare
Book Week is one of my favourite festivals across the world. With a remarkable line-up of speakers and sessions, it nourishes souls, challenges minds and quietly, heals hearts.
Elif Shafak
There can’t be an audience more clued-in, attentive or enthusiastic than the one that gathers every year for Book Week. And no wonder: the programme is always bursting with unmissable events.
Nicholas Hytner
It was such a privilege to be a mentor on the inaugural emerging writers’ programme, and inspiring to see the next generation of writers, and how the programme allowed open discussion, feedback, and a long-lasting network.
Kavita Puri
The creation of the Jewish Literary Foundation is to be welcomed with rejoicing and hope. It will surely contribute to the understanding of Jewish culture, so desperately needed beyond the Jewish world as well as within it.
Simon Schama
The year always begins for me with Jewish Book Week – here are old friends, faithful readers, new writers, a great melting pot of ideas, talk, collaboration and hope.
Howard Jacobson
I feel that the most relevant place for every thinking and feeling woman and man to be is in the events of the Jewish Literary Foundation.
David Grossman
I loved being a mentor for the Emerging Writers Programme. My mentee and I had energetic, scintillating discussions about her writing and storytelling. In fact, I probably learned as much from her as she did from me!
Tracy Chevalier
Book Week has become London’s non-party parliament, distinguished from the other one by people listening as well as talking. It’s the best.
David Hare
Book Week is one of my favourite festivals across the world. With a remarkable line-up of speakers and sessions, it nourishes souls, challenges minds and quietly, heals hearts.
Elif Shafak
There can’t be an audience more clued-in, attentive or enthusiastic than the one that gathers every year for Book Week. And no wonder: the programme is always bursting with unmissable events.
Nicholas Hytner
It was such a privilege to be a mentor on the inaugural emerging writers’ programme, and inspiring to see the next generation of writers, and how the programme allowed open discussion, feedback, and a long-lasting network.
Kavita Puri
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