JEP Writing Competition Returns
ISLANDERS should sharpen their pencils, charge their laptops and turn off ChaptGPT for the return of the Jersey Festival of Words Writing...
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Jersey Festival of Words
- Jul 31, 2022
- 2 min
Festival to have a Firm Focus on the Environment
Environmental themes feature strongly in this year’s Jersey Festival of Words, with a mixture of visiting and resident writers booked to...
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Jersey Festival of Words
- Jul 1, 2022
- 4 min
A Fanfare of Fiction for Festival of Words
BEST-SELLING novelists Celia Imrie and Lionel Shriver have joined the line-up for this year’s relaunched Jersey Festival of Words....
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Jersey Festival of Words
- Jun 22, 2022
- 2 min
Festival Schools Programme Announced
Following a two-year break due to the Covid pandemic, primary school children across the Island will once again be invited to meet top...
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Jersey Festival of Words
- Jun 11, 2022
- 2 min
Writing Competition Launched in Partnership with JEP
CREATIVE writers should sharpen their pencils, charge their laptops and make all other essential preparations for this year's Jersey...
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Jersey Festival of Words
- Jun 8, 2022
- 1 min
Highvern Launches Postcard Design Competition with Jersey Festival of Words
Highvern, as the main sponsors of the Jersey Festival of Words, have launched a postcard design competition for school children, to...
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Jersey Festival of Words
- May 26, 2022
- 3 min
Politics, Disaster and Fake History
IT’S an election year in Jersey and, in keeping with the mood of the moment, the Island’s relaunched book festival will include a line-up...
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Jersey Festival of Words
- Apr 27, 2022
- 1 min
Festival Looking Up With Highvern
The Jersey Festival of Words team are grateful for the support of main sponsors Highvern, and look forward to working closely with them...
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Jersey Festival of Words
- Mar 12, 2022
- 1 min
Support for JFOW from the Jersey Community Foundation
This year's Jersey Festival of Words will be supported by the Jersey Community Foundation, with funds from the Channel Island Lottery....
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Jersey Festival of Words
- Mar 5, 2022
- 1 min
A Message from Deputy Kirsten Morel
The speed with which the Festival of Words has developed from being a fledging event to a festival of international standard and one of...
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Jersey Festival of Words
- Nov 22, 2020
- 3 min
Double Win for Festival Poet
JERSEY’S main poetry prize has been won by the same writer for the second year in a row. The Alan Jones Prize, the main award in the...
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Jersey Festival of Words
- Jul 15, 2020
- 1 min
Jersey Festival of Words Poetry Competition 2020
Entries are invited for this year’s Jersey Festival of Words Poetry Competition. Launched back in 2018, the competition provides an...
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Jersey Festival of Words
- Mar 9, 2020
- 4 min
A Challenging Read
Remember that new year's resolution you set yourself back at the end of December? Yes, that one. If it was a personal resolution to read...
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Jersey Festival of Words
- Feb 20, 2020
- 2 min
Let's get quizzical
'April is the cruellest month,' according to the poet T.S.Eliot, and as anyone who has attended one of our literary quizzes will tell...
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Jersey Festival of Words
- Oct 17, 2019
- 2 min
Lines On the Sand Makes its Mark
Two local tech firms have joined forces with the Jersey Festival of Words to create a website showcasing the creative work of the...
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Jersey Festival of Words
- Oct 17, 2019
- 2 min
Review of Ana Sampson / She is Fierce
I know I’m not supposed to have favourites, but as I shuffled into the Arts Centre for the penultimate time over the literary festival...
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Jersey Festival of Words
- Oct 16, 2019
- 1 min
Review of Alex Rogers / The Deep
In this illuminating hour at the Arts Centre, Professor Alex Rogers barely referred to his book, The Deep. Instead, the focus was firmly...
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