Hello everybody!

The countdown has started. With just 11 days to go to the launch of the first ever Stoke Newington Literary Festival, we'll be bringing you exclusive interviews, event previews and ideas on how to make the best of the festival weekend.

To join our mailing list for last-minute ideas, offers and promotions, including chances to win 2 VIP all-access tickets for the weekend, visit our website or email info@stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com

We've got most areas covered: we've got poetry, prose, philosophy and politics; we've got ghost stories and ghoulish tales for kids round Abney Park; we've got beer, food, pubs and cookery demos; we've got feminism, multi-culturalism and psychogeography. We've got Murder in the Town Hall, ghosts in the Airport (check out the website..) and Music Mayhem in the village hall. We've even got The Adventures of Monsieur Robinet...

So bookmark us, send the link to your friends, follow us on Twitter @StokeyLitFest, join the Facebook page and generally become part of the gang.

See you on 4th-6th June!