literature day after

still picking through the weekend to work out just how successful an event it was, but with a string of happy authors, pretty healthy book sales (the David Aaronovitch book sold out), and (so far) really nice and encouraging words from the visit authors, its just the money that we have yet to measure sucess by. I realise that our audience figures are helped by an event for children that was attended by over 400 people, but even an initial tally suggest that attendances were up by over 730 (which is like 125% increase on last year - nice). While thanks go to all the professional authors who visited this year, I would also like to name and thank all of the local authors and poets who came to speak at our inaugural Open Mic event - Elizabeth Leaper, Janet Jenkins, Sally Hayter, Paul Higgs, Mostyn Harris, Jan Green, Michael Pearson, Anthony Webster, Sue Maxwell, Matthew Powell, Philip Hall, Wendy Wilson, and Gary Longdon.