The Challenge of the Big Read

The mainstream media is full on these days about literacy amongst young people. According to an article in The Times last Friday, many students now lack the resilience and concentration to read long books. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/universities-teaching-literature-students-how-to-cope-with-long-novels-8bwgscp7k   

The article says that 'academics said students in the past five to ten years, who had grown up with phones in their pockets, could be intimidated by reading long, older or more difficult books and the jump in pace from A-level.'

The piece connects this with the general downturn in English as a University subject, once greatly favoured, it now fails to even make the Top10.

I'm pleased to say that we have many young writers from Bristol Schools demonstrating their appreciation of the written word. We have had some excellent entries to the YA Writing Competition, a Part of this Year's Clifton LitFest.

Please be one of them!

There are three weeks and with a max of 800 words per entry that's plenty of time to submit your entry.

All the details on how to enter are here https://www.cliftonlitfest.net  

We look forward to hearing from you!