2024
Libby Ruffle’s Be Still and Know is the winner of our 2024 Community Ghost Story call-out. It will be presented as a rehearsed reading at the Seagull Theatre on the 15th October 2025
You can read Be Still and Know along with 3 other shortlisted entries from Wendy James, Madeleine Wynn and Karen Forbes in our 2024 community ghost story e-zine
Feeling Spooked
Do you love ghost stories and want to try writing one yourself? We’ve put together a new ghost story writing guide for creative writers of all levels and experience to learn from and be inspired by. Come and have a go…if you think you’re scary enough.
The writers of Ghost Stories By Candlelight were all inspired by the famous short story writer, M.R. James. He set many of his most well-known ghost stories in East Anglia. We’ve put together a new ghost story writing guide which includes his ‘top tips’ for writing scary tales and we’ve added in some of our own modern tips too.
Download our guide: How to Write Your Own Ghost Story
2023
Emma Zadow’s Lady Marsh won our 2023 Write Your Own Ghost Story call-out.
It was be presented as a pre-show rehearsed reading at the Seagull Theatre on Saturday 19th October
You can read an abridged version of Lady Marsh, along with 4 other short-listed stories in our Ghost Stories by Candlelight from the community e-zine