2025 Short Story Results
Congratulations to Myra Scott for her winning entry Along Came a Spider in the Short Story Competition. Our thanks go…
2025 Book for Children Results
Congratulations to Mel Darbon for her winning entry Owl in the Attic in the Book for Children Competition. Our thanks…
2025 Young Poets Results
Congratulations to Benjamin Foxcroft for his winning entry, A Field Guide to Focus, in this year’s Young Poets Competition. A…
2025 Open Poetry Results
Congratulations to Sharon Black for her winning entry Dinger, Short for Schrödinger in the Open Poetry Competition. Dinger, Short for…
Turning readers into writers…
Organising a successful Festival of Literature involves more than solely celebrating an impressive string of established writers and their work;…
Time to enjoy the shortlists
Our shortlisting panels have had a very busy – but satisfying – few weeks. The final decision now goes to…
The judges are ready for our 2024 Competitions. Are you?
2023 saw another fiercely contested, but hugely popular, quartet of competitions! The standard in all four categories was high and…
2024 Young Poets Competition
Our Young Poets Competition is offering bigger cash prizes this year than ever before: First Prize will be £200, Second…
2024 Open Poetry Competition
Enter our 2024 Open Poetry Competition to make sure you are in with a chance of winning one of our…
2024 Book for Children
The winner of our 2024 Book for Children Competition will receive £750. £300 is second prize with £200 being offered…