The submission window is closed

The last ten days have been testing my social media skills to the maximum. Every day, I came up with new posts for Instagram and Twitter, using my last effort to encourage more people to submit to our 2023/24 first Battersea Anthology. It seems like the publicity and marketing strategies have worked. We have received many submissions, and I am about to go through them in the next couple of weeks.

Thank you so much.

All submissions admitted into the book will be notified by the end of the month (30 September 2023). So make sure you keep tracking your inbox and especially your spam folder.

I have learned a lot in the past few months, from pitching the idea to Wandsworth Council to soliciting help from various organisations, communities, and individuals in the local area and beyond to kickstart the project. More of my gratitude speech will be included in the book and at our launch party. You can RSVP to our launch party here.

In the meantime, much work will be done in the background to bring the book together.

The big picture

It’s worth noting that this book is a collector’s item. My vision is to chronicle the changing landscape of Battersea and Nine Elms through the amazing, undiscovered voices of the local residents. So if you have missed this year’s deadline for whatever reason, I am confident we will be able to continue publishing next year’s. To be able to do that, making enough sales for this very first edition is crucial. Art is priceless, but sustainability and scalability have a cost.

So now I am putting on both the entrepreneur’s hat and the editor’s hat in creating the best-looking book that you and your friends cannot help but purchase.

More information to follow, and for me, exciting sleepless nights.