Winchester Writing Festival Competitions 2016
Winchester Writers' Festival
Friday 17 June - Sunday 19 June, 2016
University of Winchester, Hampshire
Now in its 36th year, the Winchester Writers' Festival supports new and emerging creative writers. Its three day programme includes 17 all-day workshops and 27 talks on all aspects of the writer's craft and getting published. Speakers are top literary agents, commissioning editors or authors, and attendees can book up to four one-to-one appointments for feedback on their work and a commercial appraisal.
This year's keynote address comes from Meg Rosoff, multi-award winning author of books for young adults. Other speakers include literary agents from Janklow & NesbitCommercial and literary fiction and non-fiction.
No poetry, plays, film/TV scripts.
Send an informative covering letter with full outline (non-fiction), synopsis and first three sample chapters (fiction) to the main Janklow and Nesbit (UK) Ltd address for the attention of the Submissions Department.
Please include return postage if you would like your manuscript returned to you. US rights handled by Janklow & Nesbit Associates in New York., Mulcahy Associates, DHH, DKW, Skylark Literary and the BIA; commissioning editors from Bloomsbury, Salt, Chicken House, Unbound, Piatkus and Little Tiger, and award-winning authors such as Jasper Fforde, Claire Fuller, Sarah Mussi, Shelley Harris, Sarah Lean and Seth Hunter.
Attendees can book to come for one, two or three days. The Festival also offers free Friday night events on 17 July, including talks, an agent panel and an open mic, and anyone may enter one of the Festival's 11 writing competitions, whether or not they attend the Festival itself. A scholarship scheme offers ten free places to writers aged 18-25 (apply before 7 April) and there is a bursary scheme to which any writer may apply. www.writersfestival.co.uk has full details.
The Winchester Writers' Festival has no less than eleven competitions, including two poetry ones, three by and for children, flash fiction, short story, crime, memoir and the first three pages of a novel.
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