Patrick Ness creates a team of super-authors, fund-raising for refugees

Patrick Ness has taken Twitter by storm, raising £200,000 (and counting) for Save The Children’s Syrian refugee crisis fund, with help of fellow authors including John Green, Derek Landy, Rainbow Rowell and David Nicholls

Patrick Ness, the award-winning children’s author of The Rest Of Us Just Live Here and Chaos Walking, hit Twitter yesterday to raise support for the refugees caught up in the European crisis, saying he would “match donations up to £10k to do *something* to help”. He began a fund-raising campaign for Save The Children – and it’s taken off in a very big way! Here’s how it started:

Okay, I don't know if this'll work but I'll match donations up to £10k to do *something* to help this refugee crises http://t.co/iDgBrCNTUc

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