Making Waves 5 - 8 June 2025...you dipped your toes into something unforgettable!
No better way to have celebrated our Motown themed poetry competition than watching one of the greatest music festival documentaries of all time, Summer of Soul. Featuring concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone (RIP Sylvester Stewart, aka Sly Stone), Gladys Knight & the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, The 5th Dimension and more. Guest judge Adam White announced the winner of our poetry competition, and there were some great video clips of our winner, Dennis Johnstone, runner-up Tom Stockly (also known as TS Idiot) and local winner, Ruth Davies, reading their winning entries.
The amazing, Olivier Award-winning Marisa Carneskey gave us magic, illusion, along with some showwoman razamataz, with her all-new performance lecture.
Her performance finished with an incredible live vintage magic illusion, accompanied by Sarjana Singh - we're still scratching our heads wondering how they did it!
What is flash fiction? Often described as being a short short story, flash fiction is defined by far more than its brevity. Written with skill, it layers the power of a far longer piece, even a novel, into the space of a paragraph or two where characters live and breathe, and your reader goes on a journey.
Our 2025 Flash Fiction Award opens for entries on 7 June 2025, closing at 11.59pm on 8 August.
Tempted?
Check out the rules, how to enter and find out about our judges.
Quite simply, with no more than 500 words to play with, every word choice matters!
Publications and prints for sale - another way to support Clevedon LitFest
We are delighted to be able to offer a small number of prints (see below for print options) for sale, by the wonderful Doris Hatt, artist, socialist and activist, who lived in Clevedon.
Also for sale is Doris Hatt: Revolutionary Artist by Adrian Webb, Christopher Stone, Denys J Wilcox & Stephen Lisney. Prices: book £8 per copy, A3 prints £25 (details of any postage/delivery costs on enquiry).
Our first pamphlet is now for sale. Outrage: How the struggle for women's suffrage came to Clevedon detailing the background and history around our October 2024 Outrage! performances in collaboration with Show of Strength Theatre. will be available at our events (£3 per copy)
Proceeds go towards supporting LitFest projects.
For orders and queries email enquiries@clevedonlitfest.org.uk
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