SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2019
The ChipLitFest 2019 Short Story Competition is now open!
Judge: Nicholas Royle
Sponsor: pennyshorts.com
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)
Deadline (Closing Date): 12 Midnight GMT, Thursday 7 February 2019
First Prize: £500
Second Prize: £100
Third Prize: £50
Further details/rules are here. We look forward to reading your stories, you can submit as many as you like. Get typing!
Non-Fiction Writing Workshop
Invaluable Trade Secrets workshop for non-fiction writers: Whether your aim is to entertain or educate, to tell your own story or someone else’s, your non-fiction work has to contain a compelling narrative, and you are required to hook your audience in the same way as the most suspenseful fiction. We’ve put together a fantastic all-day programme to cover the most important aspects of non-fiction writing. Join our expert tutors - authors, publishers and book sellers - on 30 Nov 2018. Delicious refreshments included.
Trade Secrets: non-fiction writing, Fri 30 Nov
Tutors: Kate Craigie, Helen Jukes, Dominic Sandbrook, Zool Verjee
Become a Festival Friend or join the Family
The ChipLitFest Friends scheme offers members the opportunity to support the Festival and its charitable aims financially. We suggest a minimum donation of £25 but will be happy with any amount you feel able to give. For those with larger pockets, why not join the Family for any donation over £150. A key benefit to Friends and Family is priority booking. A key benefit to ChipLitFest is supporting 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.
Creative Writing Workshops for Vulnerable Students
As part of the Festival's remit to create life-long readers, we run a series of specialist creative writing workshops every year. Our programme involves a number of interactive writing sessions with groups of vulnerable young people, those living in full-time residential care, those with emotional and mental health needs, and those who have been school-excluded. ChipLitFest favourite Bali Rai will return to engage the students and get them thinking about how to express themselves in ways that gets fantastic results. Samples of students' writing from spring 2018 are here. For the academic year 2018/19, we are very generously supported by the Midcounties Cooperative and Oxfordshire Community Fund. Publishers Barrington Stoke are kindly contributing books for the project.
