Community journalism — Marta Bausells

I am fascinated by community engagement (on and off line). Thanks to the good side of the internet, I have worked on projects like the following:

In which I find people who had great encounters with David Bowie
In which, for Mother's Day, I collate people's reflections on who their mothers were before they had them
In which people tell me how they hear voices in their head when they read
In which readers recommend the 10 best independent bookshops in the world
In which I get to attend a secretive Haruki Murakami event, sneak questions in from readers, and explain how it all went
In which I crowdsource ideas for a "book bench" (it's a long story) and Neil Gaiman comes to sit on it (and moves it across a busy London street)
In which I talk to former prisoners about why books are a lifeline in jail (upon the UK government's ban on sending books to prisoners)
In which I am moved to tears by readers' memories of Gabriel García Márquez
In which (provided the idea of listening to music while you read doesn't appall you) I put together books-and-music pairings that go great together
In which I encourage Guardian writers and readers to look back at our great reads of the year