Entrants should submit a piece of written work that brings their fictional island – complete with its own inhabitants, buildings, laws and histories – to life.
Drawings, photos of models, and other supporting artwork are also encouraged to help impress the judges.
Each age category winner will receive £40 in book tokens and have their work featured on the Jersey Festival of Words website.
Pictured: The winning desert island writers will receive £40 in book tokens.
Entrants aged 8 to 11 should submit 150-250 words, ages 12 to 14 should submit 200-300, and 15 to 17-year-olds are asked to prepare 250 to 500.
All submissions should be emailed to info@jerseyfestivalofwords.org by midnight April 30th (by an adult if the entrant is under 16).
A couple of sentence starters if you need a nudge…
“As I stumbled up from the sea and on to the beach, I couldn’t quite believe what lay before me…”
“I must have lain there on the beach for hours as the tide slowly went out. Nothing could have prepared me for what I found upon awakening…”