A parent who has been writing something in the evenings and doesn't know what to do with it. A community group that wants to mark something — a celebration, a history, a moment that belongs to them. A friend who knows someone who illustrates. A teacher who has watched her class come alive around a story that finally reflected their world.
This is what I know now: the creative energy is already there. It has always been there. In the communities I work with, in the North East and beyond, people are burning to tell their stories. They just haven't always had somewhere to take them.
That is what Bok Bok Books is for. Not to provide stories from the outside in — but to find the ones that are already forming, and give them the space, the craft, and the platform they deserve.
Publishing, events, workshops, community projects — it is all the same impulse. Release the energy that is already there. See what it becomes.
