Rothschild who are sponsoring the Guernsey Literary Schools and Community Programme that sees speakers visit Guernsey’s schools with the hope of inspiring students to get writing.

We have 15 school and community talks and workshops taking place this week with Ross Montgomery, Duncan Barrett, Daljit Nagra, Steve Jones, Murray Lachlan Young, Mimi Anderson, Gary Young, Why Comics? and Rangan Chatterjee.

This year’s story competition, sponsored by Julius Baer, with a ‘conflict’ theme related to the 100th year anniversary of the First World War, saw a record number of entrants.

The youngest class, for years 3-6, was won by Vauvert’s Anton Le Poidevin and the Intermediate class (years 7-9) was won by Naomi Miller of the Grammar School. Casper Bailey of Elizabeth College was the winner in the Senior class (years 10+).

You can view all the winning stories on our website writestuff.gg which have been illustrated by local artist Frances Lemmon. Please join us for the WriteStuff Awards ceremony and Winners Reading on Saturday 12th May in the Festival Hub. It’s a free event open to all.