The Abergavenny Writing Festival

April 2024

Youth Writing Competition 2025

Youth Writing Competition 2025 –  Hear My Voice.

Entries are FREE and the deadline for entries is Sunday 16th February 2025

Enter using the online form here:

Youth Writing Competition Entry Form 2025 (Link opens in new tab)

Or request a form to be sent to you by emailing entries@abergavennywritingfestival.com

 

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Logo: AberWritingFest 2025 
4th – 5th April 2025
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Youth Writing Competition 
FREE and open to all from Year 3 to Year 13
Theme for this year: 
Hear My Voice 
We warmly invite you to write a speech
Share your views – on a topic of your choice 
Stop us in our tracks with your voice 
Be candid, clear, and confident 
Make us laugh or think, agree or disagree – your shout 
Make your words count – Have your voice heard! 

Maximum two entries per individual. Entries in any written form are welcome – up to 300 words.
Entries in English and/or Welsh. 

Deadline for entries: 
Sunday 16th February 2025
Winners announced week beginning Monday 17th March 2025 
Presentation: Saturday 5th April 2025
@ 11:30am the Melville Theatre, Abergavenny, NP7 5UD. 
How to enter
You can use an online form or ask for a form to be emailed to you: 
www.abergavennywritingfestival.com 
or email us
entries@abergavennywritingfestival.com 
Winners will receive mentoring sessions with some of Wales’ inspiring creatives and writers…
Claire Fayers, Bethany Handley and Sheldon the Rapper. 
Mentoring sessions to take place after the presentation at the Melville Theatre on 5th April 2025. 

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