ChipLitFest

📚 ChipLitFest closed its doors on 13 Dec 2024 📚 10 amazing festivals of surprising, inspiring literary events 📚 Thanks for the good bookish times 📚

[ChipLitFest @ChipLitFest]

This account relates to the Chipping Norton Literary Festival weekends, outreach programmes and occasional events that ceased trading in December 2024.

[Oxford Children's Books @OxfordChildrens]

Sometimes Leila is a little bit scared of the dark. Then she meets Moon Girl🌕🖌️

Thomas Docherty's latest picture book, Moon girl, is out this April!

#PictureBooks #Illustration #MoonGirl

[Nero Book Awards @nerobookawards]

OUR 2024 NERO BOOK AWARDS CATEGORY WINNERS 🤩🤩

Huge congratulations to @AdamLeslie1974, @ColinBarrett82, @LondonBessie and @SophieElmhirst 🎉

Find out more about each winning book by clicking here: https://t.co/tIcVp4SAWm

[Inkspot Publishing @Inkspotpub]

✨ The Ultimate Writers’ Companion for 2025 ✨

🚨 SELLING FAST! Only a handful of copies left! 🚨

To honour the end of @ChipLitFest , we’re including a FREE copy of The One About The Sheep: and Other Stories with every purchase made now until December 16th—just in time for Christmas! 🎄

https://t.co/frrnrWkAJO

[Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative]

'A good structure means that narrative pull is built into the story' ✍️

Author of the iconic novel #OneDay and 2024 bestseller #YouAreHere, David Nicholls, shares his tips for how to depict a believable bond between two characters. https://t.co/G6WMKNAPWU

[ChipLitFest @ChipLitFest]

A remarkable event with @doctor_oxford & Nell Frizzell to close the festival's 10 yrs of the most engaging literary conversations. We've been hugely proud to bring such wonderful writers, illustrators, speakers, thinkers, singers, shouters to our tiny town!
Terrible 📸, sorry!

[WritingWestMidlands @writingwestmids]

🖋️ Want to build a successful career as a freelance features writer? Caroline Butterwick will share insider tips on pitching, writing, and navigating the freelance world. From idea to publication.

🔗 https://t.co/gxmowIpEYn

[Tom Ryan @atomryan]

A brilliant speaker to say au revoir to a fantastic festival!

[ChipLitFest @ChipLitFest]

@atomryan Thank you Tom, it's going to be hard to say goodbye 💜

[ChipLitFest @ChipLitFest]

Some tickets still available for tonight's event with @doctor_oxford

7:30pm Chipping Norton Theatre

Do join us, it's the final festival event and we would love to see you there.

https://t.co/sf0DdYxQEf

[ChipLitFest @ChipLitFest]

@claremackint0sh @phoebegwriter Phoebe's a star!

[ChipLitFest @ChipLitFest]

We've been lucky enough to have @phoebegwriter reporting on the festival since 2016. Here are her heartfelt thoughts as we close our doors in a few days time https://t.co/JZmAJezZ03

[Laura Parker @laura_parkle]

@phoebegwriter 's deeply-felt tribute to Chipping Norton LitFest illustrates the power a literary festival has to inspire young readers to become our next generation of writers.

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @birdshannah]

BOOK NEWS 🪶 COVER REVEAL 📚 WOOOOP!

My new book

NATURE NEEDS YOU - The Fight To Save Our Swifts

Published by @eandtbooks

Out 1st May 2025

Pre order https://t.co/L6FVdM52zQ

#NatureNeedsYou #swifts #BookNews

[ChipLitFest @ChipLitFest]

@phoebegwriter 💜💜💜

[phoebegwriter @phoebegwriter]

It's been my honour to work on the @ChipLitFest team for these past years. I'm going to miss this wonderful festival ♥️
https://t.co/KCamExRgBp

[New Writing North @NewWritingNorth]

The #GordonBurnPrize 2025 longlist has landed!

Look beyond the mainstream and explore exceptional writing that dares to experiment and often defies categorisation.

The shortlist will be announced in January, and the winner in March at @northernstage
https://t.co/bYvF71qLEC

[The Booker Prizes @TheBookerPrizes]

We’re thrilled to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 judging panel.

Roddy Doyle will act as chair of judges, and will be joined by @ayobamiadebayo, @SJP, @chris_power and @kileyreid.

https://t.co/gPp00XjFHL

[Women's Prize @WomensPrize]

For the last seven days, we have been fundraising via the Big Give with a pledge to support 5,000 women writers in the next year, opening the door for the writers of tomorrow. How do we plan to achieve this? Introducing, ‘The Writers’ Room’…

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

Old Ladybird Books updated.

A lamentable decline in feline parenting skills between the 1960s and 70s

Artist: Martin Aitchison