Category: events
2024 HG Wells Short Story Competition Winners and Awards
Huge Congratulations to our 2024 HG Wells Short Story Competition winners”! Celia Fournier won the Margaret and Reg Turnill Prize (Under 22) for “Vulture’s Field” and Robert Maslen took the Senior Prize with “Sally Grass”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI4ffkXQkFI… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKECRoPv3og… Congratulations to Celia, Robert and all our shortlisted authors, whose stories appear in our 2024 anthology “The Fool”.…
2023 HG Wells Short Story Competition Winners and Awards
At the 2023 HG Wells Short Story Competition Award Ceremony on Zoom on Sunday 19th November, the winners were announced as: The 2023 Anthology of “Motion” is available now on Amazon at: We’re also delighted to announce the theme of the 2024 competition: The Fool. Make of it what you will! The Award Ceremony was…
2022 HG Wells Short Story Competition Winners and Awards
At the 2022 HG Wells Short Story Competition Award Ceremony on Zoom on Sunday 20th November, the winners were announced as: The 2022 Anthology of Switch is available now on Amazon at: We’re also delighted to announce the theme of the 2022 competition: Switch. Make of it what you will! The Award Ceremony was broadcast…
2020 HG Wells Short Story Competition Winners
At the annual Awards Ceremony on the afternoon of Sunday 22nd November, held this year for the first time live on Zoom, the organisers of the HG Wells Short Story Competition were delighted to announce the winners of the 2020 competition. The Winner of the Junior £1,000 Turnill Prize is Tabitha Rubens for “The Invisible…
The HG Wells Short Story Competition Awards Ceremony 2020
This Sunday 22nd November, at noon GMT (12pm UTC +0), is the Award Ceremony of the 2020 HG Wells Short Story Competition. We are going to livestream the event to our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/HGWellsShortStoryCompetition In addition to the presentation by, and live Q&A with, Sarah Anthony there will be also be readings from our…
Folkestone Book Festival Programme 2019: The Shape of Things to Come
The Folkestone Book Festival: The Shape of Things to Come brochure has landed! Inspired by the ideas of Sandgate resident, H G Wells, this year’s Festival presents one-off events stretching into the wild Romney Marsh, Victorian Tin Tabernacle, 12th century church and seaside fish and chip shop! This year’s line-up includes Booker Prize-winning author, Ben…
Norah Perkins to Present 2019 HG Wells Awards
We’re delighted to announce that Norah Perkins will again be our special guest to present prizes and short-list certificates at our annual awards ceremony on the 24th November at the Grand Hotel in Folkestone. Norah is an agent at Curtis Brown and represents clients across modern classics, British crime and true-life adventures, including a small…
H G Wells: Nostalgia for the Future?
Friends of Folkestone Museum present H G Wells: Nostalgia for the Future? A talk by Paul Allen Sat 15thJune,2pm till 3.45pm Paul Allen of the H G Wells Society will explore the tension between the thoughts in Wells’ futuristic work and his nostalgia and love for rural England expressed in his autobiography, social novels and…
Folkestone Schools Writers Workshop
Once again, we are very happy to support the local short story writing workshop to be run on the 3rd July at the Harvey Grammar School, Folkestone, at which Marcus McCabe, one of our shortlisted under-22 writers from 2018, will be speaking. This workshop is for local secondary school aged short story writers. Last year’s event,…
Fairytale, Folklore and Folk Horror: Accessing the Uncanny in the Rural Landscape. Short Story Writing Workshop with Gillian Laker
On Saturday 4th May, the H G Wells Short Story Competition have organised a writing workshop in Folkestone for aspiring writers of all ages led by Gillian Laker. This workshop will unlock the eerie and the strange in our local environment, the hidden drama of rural names and common expressions. Participants will be provided with tips on…
