Description:
The Asham Trust promotes excellence in literature through competitions, events and sponsorship for emerging writers of all ages. Its Asham Award particularly encourages the development of the short story by linking winners with well-established writers; and it partners the Charleston Trust in running Small Wonder, the most successful short story festival in the country. The Trust also runs a programme of events, lectures, educational schemes and a creative writing project for young people, The Write Stuff.
The Asham Trust was established by Lewes District Council in 1995 with an endowment from the owners of the site of Asham (or Asheham) House, the Sussex home of Leonard and Virginia Woolf from 1912-1919.