Chip­ping Nor­ton Lit­er­ary Festival

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

Tickets will go on sale soon.

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

Jo Unwin Literary Agency Ltd (JULA) is a dynamic literary agency based at Somerset House in London. The agency represents debut and best-selling authors published in the UK, US and internationally.

We are delighted that Jo Unwin is joining us as the judge of the 2024 short story competition. At the festival we have regularly worked with Jo’s clients such as Brian Bilston, Kit de Waal, Lucy Easthope, and Nadia Shireen as well as Jo herself who has provided a number of invaluable workshop sessions for aspiring writers.

As well as judging the competition, JULA are also offering the winner the chance to meet at the agency at Som­er­set House in Lon­don to dis­cuss your writ­ing career.

We’re incredibly grateful that HW Fisher is returning as our competition sponsor.

You write the books and leave us to keep them

HW Fish­er is a top 30 char­tered accoun­tan­cy firm which has been advis­ing authors and jour­nal­ists for many years, help­ing them to man­age their finances. We pro­vide expert accoun­tan­cy, audit, tax, cor­po­rate and finan­cial advi­so­ry ser­vices to high-pro­file entre­pre­neur­ial SMEs, large cor­po­rates and high net-worth indi­vid­u­als. We keep it per­son­al by enabling you to con­cen­trate on express­ing your tal­ent while depend­ing on ours for accoun­tan­cy and finan­cial planning.