Young Writers Festival 2024/2025
Arts Richmond's Annual writing competition for all young people in the borough.
Arts Richmond Young Writers' Festival is open to all young people who either live or attend school/clubs in the Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is a chance to demonstrate writing skills of any form: stories,descriptive writing,poems, playlets,lyrics for songs-whatever the imagination can devise.
This year we are excited to announce that the competition will be theme based. All written work should be themed around the topic "Changes".
Entries are judged in four age groups with prizes for all winning entries.
All shortlisted entrants will be invited to a gala awards event at prestigious venue
The Exchange on Sunday 23rd March 2025.
Entry rules are simple: entrants may write about any subject of their choice within the theme Changes, in any format (e.g. a poem, story, play script, news item etc.) not exceeding 500 words or 25 lines for a poem. ENTRIES MUST BE IN TYPED FORMAT (Hand written entries will be disqualified)
Extracts from longer pieces will be accepted. All entries must be exclusively the entrant's own work. Only one entry per Young Writer
Entries will be judges in the following Categories.
· School Years 4 and under
· School Years 5 and 6
· School Years 7 and 9
· School Years 10 and over.
Send Your entry to:
Arts Richmond Young Writers Festival
ETNA Community Centre Room 21, 13 Rosslyn Road, Twickenham, TW1 2AR.
Or email: YWentries@artsrichmond.org.uk
Please give full name, address, telephone number, email, date of birth, school year, and school or club you are attending in a covering letter/email or form provided by your school. (NAMES ENTERED DIRECTLY ONTO WORK WILL DISQUALIFY THE PIECE)
Deadline: Friday 6th December 2024
I am very happy to be working with Arts Richmond and their Young Writers’ Festival. I have recently moved to Richmond and love the area…in fact my most recent book is set here.
More to the point, I’m always keen to encourage young people to develop their creative skills and if they’re living in this area, there’s plenty to inspire them. Just walking along the river, in the park or on the green, we’re surrounded by history and enchantment and there are stories everywhere.
Good luck. And get writing!
Anthony Horowitz
Arts Richmond Poetry Prize 2025
Supported by Roger McGough
Entries are invited for the Arts Richmond Poetry Prize 2025.
The theme for this competition is Changes.
You may enter poems up to 40 lines in length. There are prizes of £250, £150, and £75.
A judging panel appointed by Arts Richmond will select 40 poems to be judged by Roger McGough who will choose the winning poems. The final 40 poems will be read by actors experienced in the performance of poetry and Roger will present the winning poets with their prizes at an awards event at The OSO Arts Centre in Barnes on Sunday 1st June 2025 at 3pm.
The 40 poems will be published in an anthology to mark the event.
The copyright of each poem remains with the author. However, by entering the competition, authors of the winning poems grant the organisers of the Arts Richmond Poetry Prize the right to publish and/ or use them in promotional displays.
The judges decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
ENTRY RULES
Entries must be entirely your own work.
The competition is for original, unpublished poems, no more than 200 words and 40 lines in length, on the theme of Changes. All entrants must be aged 16 or older.
Each poem must be clearly typed on a single side of A4 paper. The poem title must be written at the top of the page. Your name must not appear on the manuscript.
Deadline for entries: Friday 17th January 2025 at 12.30pm.
The entry fee is £5.00 per poem, three poems for £12.00.
Please Include an Entry Form. This can be downloaded by clicking below.
Payment can be made by BACS (preferred) or cheques, details are in the Entry Form.
We prefer to receive entries by email but we will also accept postal entries. Send entries as Word or PDF attachments by email to Competitions@artsrichmond.org.uk
Please enter Arts Richmond Poetry Prize in the subject line. Don’t forget to attach the entry form.
For poems entered by post please include a completed entry form. We prefer BACs payments but you can also pay by cheque made payable to Arts Richmond. Please send to: Arts Richmond, Room 21 ETNA Centre, 13 Rosslyn Road, Twickenham TW1 2AR.
Come & Sing Choral Workshop
Join us to let your musical hair down! Sing stunning songs from an iconic show, release your inner Maria and let the hills come alive!
Rogers & Hammerstein’s ‘Sound of Music’
Conductor: Richard Harker
Accompanist: Jonathan Booth
9.30am: Registration
10am: Singing
12 noon: Lunch (Bring your own)
12.30pm: Networking with local choirs and choral societies
1pm: Singing
3pm: Break
3.30pm: Performance for Family and Friends
4pm: Finish
Ticket £25.00 (Include Score H Hire Sound of Music Choral Selection)
Family and Friends Tickets £5.00 on the door or online
Arts Richmond Drama Party September 2024
Featuring the SWAN Awards
Arts Richmond had a record turn out for their annual Drama Party Awards held at the Landmark Arts Centre on Saturday 21st September. You can now download images from the event and a list of the winners and their citations:
