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A tribute to the Queen – Marlborough LitFest 2022 Primary Schools Competition

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Judging is taking place for the Marlborough LitFest 2022 Primary Schools’ Competition.

Marlborough LitFest runs an annual competition with local primary schools. This year 13 local schools took part, with nearly 800 entries in total. The 2022 competition was centred around the Platinum Jubilee and invited children to write a story using words or pictures, about the theme of ‘The Day the Queen Came to Stay’. Six prizes of £25 book tokens each will be given to the winning entries courtesy of sponsor Haine & Smith, the opticians in Marlborough. Prizes will be given out during the LitFest weekend.

There have been over 800 entries in the competition

Laura Briscall, Marlborough LitFest Schools Co-ordinator, said: “We are thrilled with the number of competition entries. The Queen’s Jubilee seems to have really inspired the children this year and the level and variety of creativity is fantastic!”

Marlborough LitFest returns for its 13th year in 2022 from 29 September – 2 October, with over 40 events taking place over the festival weekend. LitFest aims to encourage a love of reading in children and young people in the local area. This year’s festival programme provides a mix of prizewinning authors, debut writers and literary events for all ages and genres, with fiction, non-fiction, poetry, children’s authors, workshops, outreach events and LitFest’s annual Big Town Read all be on offer. The line-up includes 2022 Golding Speaker, Ali Smith, as well as Kamila Shamsie, Patrick Gale, Pam Ayres, Clover Stroud, Max Hastings, Benedict Allen and children’s author Jacqueline Wilson.

LitFest would like to thank its sponsors for 2022: lead sponsor Sarah Raven, main event sponsor Hiscox Insurance, and event sponsors William Golding Limited, Robert Hiscox, Adam Matthew Digital, St Francis School, Marlborough College, Marlborough.news and Hamilton Trust, as well as our patron Sir Simon Russell Beale, and partners Katharine House Gallery, Haine & Smith Opticians, The White Horse Bookshop and Wiltshire Life for their continued support for the festival.

For more information, visit the website here.  

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