Evesham Festival of Words Book Blurb Competition: August 2024

We are delighted to announce the launch of our inaugural Book Blurb Competition, inspired by an excellent talk, ‘Confessions of a Book Blurb Writer’ from Louise Willder during our 2023 Festival and open to entrants from 1st August. 

Like so many, browsing to find your next ‘good read’, do you read the blurbs on the backs of books to help you choose? A good blurb intrigues, whetting the appetite for what lies within – and is of course, a powerful tool in influencing sales! New to Festival competions, we will be giving you the opportunity to guess a range of book titles and their authors from reading just the blurbs. Will they tell enough of the story to make the title obvious? Will the tone and word choice of the blurb help you determine the genre – and lead you to the correct answer?

Free to enter and for anyone over the age of 12, there will be a £20 book token for the winning entrant.  Click on the links to see the Competition Blurbs from a range of genre and full Competition Rules. 

Good Luck everyone!

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