Scritture Giovani is a project devised by Festivaletteratura, to promote young European writers. It started in 2002 with the support of the European Union’s Cultural Programme and has continued with increasing success. It involves several of Europe’s major literary festivals - Festivaletteratura, Hay Festival (United Kingdom), Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin (Germany)
Welsh poet Jemma L King has been invited to this years edition, together with writers Luca Giordano and Florian Kessler. The three authors will present short stories written specifically for this project and the subject providing the leitmotif for the 2014 edition is Sarajevo.
Jemma won the Terry Hetherington Young Writer of the Year Award in 2011 and her creative and academic work has been published internationally. Her debut collection, The Shape of a Forest, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2013. In 2013, King began working on a poetry project, funded by Literature Wales, that sought to give voice to anonymous women of antique photographs. She is also a literary critic.