FESTIVAL UPDATE
14 Oct 2024: This is to announce that, very sadly, we have decided that the Festival has reached its end.
Funding for the Festival has been pretty critical in the last year and that situation hasn’t changed. We are no longer in a position where we can risk undertaking planning for a festival weekend next year.
This doesn't in anyway affect our two forthcoming events with John Finnemore and Dr Rachel Clarke, they will be part of our Grand Finale. They will be rich and funny and moving, bursting with wonderful words as our events always have!
Huge thanks for the support you have given us over the years. Keep reading!
More details available here.
THE RESEARCHER'S FIRST MURDER
SPECIAL EVENT!
TUESDAY 26 NOVEMBER
Writer John Finnemore is one of a handful of people who has solved the almost impossible riddle of Cain's Jawbone. We're delighted to welcome him to ChipLitFest with his equally fiendish puzzle, The Researcher's First Murder.
A body is found stabbed to death in a locked room. The police find no weapon, no motive and no suspects. However, the murderer has in their possession a box of one hundred cryptic picture postcards which – if properly understood – would explain not just this murder, but nine others. The reader is now in possession of those cards. The challenge is yours...
Full details here
See our new John Finnemore blog here
Tickets on sale NOW
THE STORY OF A HEART
SPECIAL EVENT!
THURSDAY 12 DECEMBER
Dr Rachel Clarke tells the extraordinary story of a heart transplant from one nine year old to another. The Story of a Heart is the unforgettable account of how one family’s grief transformed into a lifesaving gift. With tremendous compassion and clarity, Dr Rachel Clarke relates the urgent journey of Keira’s heart and explores the history of the remarkable medical innovations that made it possible, stretching back over a century and involving the knowledge and dedication not just of surgeons but of countless physicians, immunologists, nurses and scientists.
The Story of a Heart is a testament to compassion for the dying, the many ways we honour our loved ones, and the tenacity of love.
Full details here
Tickets on sale NOW
Short Story Competition 2024
2024 CHIPLITFEST SHORT STORY COMPETITION
Huge congratulations to our three winners:
First: Blighty One by Chloe Banks
Second: An Evening With Rodney McGraw by Sarah Price
Third: Miss Mansfield by Victoria Stewart
Please click on each title to read these amazing stories and find out more about the authors.
Enormous thanks to our judge: Jo Unwin and sponsor: HW Fisher
We received 213 entries from all across the UK and Ireland, USA, France, Germany, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Taiwan.
- First Prize: £500 + the chance to meet with Jo Unwin Literary Agency at Somerset House in London to discuss your writing career.
- Second Prize: £100
- Third Prize: £50
