The Edinburgh Girls’s Fiction Competition is getting into its third yr in 2025, celebrating writing for, by, and about girls. Based in 2023, the pageant shines a highlight on girls’s fiction throughout genres – from business and romance to historic, literary, and e-book membership favourites – and welcomes everybody who finds pleasure in girls’s tales.
This yr’s pageant will run on 26–27 September 2025 with eight reside panel occasions in Edinburgh. To widen entry, the organisers plan to livestream and report all periods, enabling audiences in all places to participate. The pageant goals to offer a platform for girls’s style fiction, usually neglected by different literature festivals, rejoice all readers of girls’s fiction, together with romantic fiction, attain new audiences, notably these from socio-economic teams who don’t often attend literature festivals, promote the psychological well being advantages of studying, and construct a neighborhood of writers and readers of girls’s fiction in Scotland.
To ship the livestream, organisers are looking for to lift beneath £1,000 by crowdfunding. Supporters will assist arrange the printed upfront and, in return, obtain free entry hyperlinks to look at occasions on-line. Livestream entry can be accessible at £2 per panel or £10 for entry to all eight panels, together with reside and recorded periods.
Crowdfunder rewards are designed to match donation ranges: a £10 donation grants entry to 1 panel, £20 provides entry to 2 panels, and £40.50 supplies full pageant entry. Supporters who’re UK taxpayers are inspired to pick out Reward Assist, including 25p to each £1 donated at no additional value.
Olivia Kekewich, Programme Director, mentioned: “The pageant has at all times been about celebrating girls’s tales and making them accessible to everybody. Livestreaming will permit us to succeed in readers who can’t be in Edinburgh, and we’re excited to develop the neighborhood even additional in our third yr.”
The 2025 line-up already consists of Julia Boggio, Jenny Colgan, Lucy Mangan, Lotte Jeffs, Emma Steele, Georgia Leighton, and Jean Menzies, with extra authors, workshops, and panels nonetheless to be introduced.
Supporters can donate immediately by the Crowdfunder right here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/recording-livestreaming-of-ewff-2025-panels
