Chip­ping Nor­ton Lit­er­ary Festival

The ChipLitFest Friends scheme offers members the opportunity to support the Festival and its charitable aims financially. We suggest a minimum donation of £25. For those with deeper pockets, why not join the Festival Family for a donation of £150 or over.

A key benefit to Friends and members of our Festival Family is priority booking.

A key benefit to ChipLitFest is your support for our work with vulnerable young people.

And a benefit to all is sustaining our innovative community Festival that celebrates literature in all its forms. Details about the Friends and Family scheme are here.

Hugely excited to announce the ChipLitFest annual festival weekend is back! Following our mini autumn run of live events, we will be back in Chipping Norton 21 - 24 April 2022 for brilliant bookish events. Keep checking in as we add more events here prior to the full launch on 27 February. Can't wait to see you all. We'll keep in touch.

We are very excited to announce the seventh ChipLitFest short story competition! Sponsored by HW Fisher for the second year running, we look forward to receiving your entries.

Judge: Yasmin Kane

Sponsor: HW Fisher

Entry fee: £5 for sto­ries up to 2,500 words. £8 for sto­ries up to 5,000 words

Word Lim­it: 2,500 (£5) 5,000 (£8)

Following HW Fisher's generous sponsorship, we are now in a position to offer free entries to those writers on a low income, details here.

Dead­line (Clos­ing Date): 12 mid­night GMT, Monday 14 February 2022

First Prize: £500

Sec­ond Prize: £100

Third Prize: £50

The Top 3 sto­ries will be pub­lished on the ChipLit­Fest website.

We pro­mote and encour­age qual­i­ty writ­ing from ama­teurs and pro­fes­sion­als alike, so the com­pe­ti­tion is open to every­one aged 16 or over by the clos­ing date, Monday 7 February 2022, not only in the UK, but over­seas as well.

How to submit your stories and competition rules, here.

Read the top four stories from the 2021 competition here.

We're thrilled that for the second year running, the top 25 chartered accountancy firm, HW Fisher, is joining the festival's list of loyal and generous supporters to sponsor our short story competition. We are really thrilled about this continuing working relationship with HW Fisher; it's a perfect match between festival and business as HW Fisher specialises in advising authors and journalists, helping them to manage their finances. They are keen litfest attenders and we look forward to welcoming the team to Chipping Norton as soon as possible.

HW Fisher's generous sponsorship means that we are now in a position to offer free entries to those writers on a low income. Eight people were able to take advantage of this free entry in the 2021 ChipLitFest short story competition.