Worldwide creative writing comp that raises funds for
@BridportArts
. £20K prize pot! The views of contributors do not reflect the views of The Bridport Prize.
Our Memoir Award is now open!
📝 Judged by
@lemnsissay
📝 First prize £1,500 + mentoring package
📝 Your
#memoir
doesn’t need to be finished
📝 Open internationally to writers 16+ writing in English
@TLCUK
@HachetteUK
📸 David Vintiner
#AmWriting
Twice BP winner Kit de Waal, who grew up in Birmingham, is generously funding 5 bursaries to enable low income or marginalised writers based in the city to submit their flash fiction stories to the 19 comp free of charge.
For details>> Deadline 9am 16 May
Our 2018 comp is open! Delighted to welcome our fab judges Daljit Nagra for Poetry, Monica Ali for Short Stories & Flash Fiction & Kamila Shamsie for the PC-A First Novel Award. Deadline 31 May. We can't wait to read your submissions!
The 2019 competition is now open. We welcome our fantastic new judges Hollie McNish for
#poetry
, Kirsty Logan for
#shortstories
&
#flashfiction
& Naomi Wood for the First
#Novel
Award. Closing date 31 May. We look forward to receiving your submissions!
The 2018 results can now been seen at Huge congratulations to all our winners and hearty thanks to our fab judges
@kamilashamsie
Daljit Nagra & Monica Ali and our
#Novel
award partners
@TLCUK
&
@AMHeathLtd
The word is out on our Flash Fiction, Poetry, Short Story and Novel Award winners! ✨
Head to to see our 2023 results. Congrats to all who made the list!🎉
Big thanks to our judges, partners and everyone who entered. ❤️
#BridportPrizeResults
#AmWriting
WE ARE THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE: Our competition is open with our super duper new website. We can't wait to read your poetry, short stories, flash fiction and novels. Discover our brand new award category too!
#WritingCommunity
#Competition
.
@BBCTwo
's
#BetweenTheCovers
starts at 7pm!
Next week's episode features the debut novel from former Bridport Prize winner
@seanlusk1
. 🎉
To celebrate, we're giving away a copy of his
#novel
! To enter, follow us & retweet this post. UK only. Closes 9pm Mon 21st Nov. Good luck!
Thank you to everyone who entered this year's competition!
Novel longlist published: 17 July. Winners and shortlisted writers contacted September. Results published 22 October.
Kit de Waal "I would urge everyone to enter competitions, local ones, free ones, little ones, big ones with big prize money. As a minimum, your work benefits from the extra attention & you never know, this could be your time!" Read full blog >>
@KitdeWaal
Kit de Waal won with us twice and later returned as a judge. Her best selling novel My Name Is Leon is THE new drama on the BBC in June. She's stared at a blank page just like you. Don't give up! Deadline 31 May
@KitdeWaal
#WritingCommunity
Today’s the day we reveal the titles on our novel longlist! 📚 As the competition is judged blind, all writers remain anonymous until October, when judge Sarah Hall will be picking our winners!
#BridportPrizeNovelAward
#NovelAward
#WritingPrize
Your writing doesn't have to be word perfect, it's your original voice, the way you see things that makes you stand out. Today's THE day to get that
#poem
,
#shortstory
,
#flash
and 5,000 words of your
#novel
to us and take the first step to a new beginning. Good luck!
Why give writing a try? "The best thing that could happen is you get published and people read what you’ve got to say”.
@KitdeWaal
, our new honorary patron, was featured on
@BBCRadioSolent
Dorset earlier this week!
Pic: Sarah M Lee
#Dorset
#AmWriting
Congratulations to the
#writers
who made the
#Novel
award shortlist. Titles are:
HUSH / Last Days at Long Sky Croft / The Messenger / The Tin Face Parade / We are Wolves. Results here 22/10
Are you thinking of entering The Bridport Prize this year? We offer over £18,000 prizes + mentoring oppotunites.
All the information on how to enter can be found on our website
Deadline 31 May 12 Midnight BST
#iamwriting
Winners for the 2018
#poetry
#shortstories
&
#flashfiction
comps have been contacted. Working through the shortlists this week. Full results 22/10 here and at
Our 20th anniversary issue is out TODAY! We're celebrating
#Mslexia20
till our birthday on 8 March, and reflecting on 20 years of Mslexia.
Featuring
@veschwab
,
@FJMoz
, Annie George, KJ Orr,
@SusanCalman
,
@psychoanalysis
and more!
Buy or subscribe here:
"I very nearly didn't submit because I thought it didn't stand a chance...it just goes to show, you won't know unless you enter!"
Corinna O’Beirne (UK) Highly Commended, Short Story 2018
Enter online >>>
We were blown away with the standard of novel entries this year. Thanks for choosing us! If your title hasn’t been longlisted, please don’t give up. If the last 18 months or so taught us anything, it’s that we should do more of what we love.
#KeepOnWriting
#AmWriting
✨
@kathyfish
is this year's
#FlashFiction
judge! ✨
"Writing outside one’s comfort zone is a great way to build new skills and open your creative brain to new possibilities."
👉 for more inspiration!
Deadline day 31 May.
#Write
🏆WRITING COMPETITIONS 🏆
We've listed September's best
#writing
competitions and opportunities, open to writers around the world, covering flash fiction, short stories, poetry, nonfiction, screenwriting and translation. Some are free to enter:
Calling all short story writers! ✍️
Judge
@ColinBarrett82
is looking for "work that feels singular and inevitable. I would like to read work that commits to itself, that follows through on its setup or premise".
More on our judges at
#AmWriting
Huge congratulations to our 2017
#Novel
award winner Deepa Anaparra whose Bridport Prize winning 'Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line' has just sold for a six figure sum!
Started a novel but some way off finishing? No worries! You do NOT need to have finished your novel to enter the First Novel Award - just the first chapter(s); 5,000 - 8,000 words in total, plus a synopsis of 300 words.
Deadline 31/5/19. Enter >>>
Novelist Kit de Waal won the Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction in 2014 and 2015. In this blog from 2017, she muses on the benefits of entering writing competitions
Calling all writers: The
@GalleyBeggars
Short Story Prize 2018/19 is now open to submissions! Our very own
@AkiSchilz
is one of this year's judges. Full details:
If you're keen to enter our 2024 Short Story prize and are wondering what judge Wendy Erskine is looking for, Wendy says: "It sounds a cliché, but I am interested in the story that only you can tell”.
Deadline day 31 May 2024!
#ShortStoryPrize
Exciting news! 🎉📰
We’re thrilled to announce that our Novel Award longlist is now live on our website. Head to to see the twenty titles.
Congrats to all longlisters and a huge thanks to everyone who entered – please, keep writing!
#WritingCommunity
BURSARIES! For writers who are marginalised, on a low income, disabled or living with long term or debilitating illness. Deadline noon THIS Friday 7 Feb. Pls share.
Delighted to share the covers for our new anthologies designed by Isolde Brampton-Green. This yr we have two. Extracts from the
#Novel
long-list and the winners of the
#poetry
#shortstory
&
#flashfiction
comps. On sale from 21 October at
There are 20 days to deadline so get your short stories, flash fiction, poetry and novels to us by 31 May. It really could be the start of something BIG.
#writing
#MondayMotivaton
I have some exciting news to share 😆
Huge thanks to the
@BridportPrize
& judge
@NellLeyshon
& congratulations to first prize winner Rowena and to Olga! Totally gobsmacked, such a proud writing moment for me, especially this particular story ☺️ Much love xx
Our novel award longlist will be announced tomorrow.
To ensure you hear from us please could you check you have given us permission to email you. You can update your preferences at
#bridportprize
#novelaward
2/2
Part 2 of novel longlist:
The Cocklers
Sins of the Fathers
Six Days in Kashgar
The Girl with the Green Eyes
The Green Indian Problem
The Improbable Case of the Being in the Robot
The Long Gestation of Madame Foo Foo
The Recollective
The Silence Project
The Worry List
"To every writer who submitted a flash fiction this year: well done on writing this wonderful and unappreciated form. And to every writer out there who thought about submitting but didn't: keep writing!" Kirsty Logan
#writingcommunity
At Bridport Prize HQ we're excitedly waiting to see the cover designs for our 2020 anthologies.
This is the 2nd year we're producing two anthologies - one with novel extracts from the longlist and the other featuring the winning poetry, short stories and flash fiction entries.
Enter your
#novel
by 31 May (it doesn't have to be finished!) 📚
Judge Sarah Hall is looking for "an exceptional, convincing narrative voice, an
#author
who understands the power of
#language
to transport a reader..."
More at Picture: Richard Thwaites
TOMORROW (Sat 21st) we’ll be announcing our Flash Fiction, Short Story, Poetry and Novel Award results! Keep an eye out on our website and social media channels for updates. 👀✨
#ShortStory
#FlashFiction
#Poetry
#Novel
Why enter our 2023 writing comp?
✨ £20K total prize pot
✨ The chance to be published in our anthology
✨ If you win, we won't just champion you as a winner, but as a member of The Bridport Prize Family
Deadline 31 May 2023. Start here:
#AmWriting
Our competition just launched with a new award, brilliant judges and lots of ways to fire your imagination. What are you waiting for?
#WritingCommnunity
#competition
Congratulations to our 2018 short story runner up Elaine Chiew
@ChiewElaine
on her debut short story collection. We are VERY proud! And what a recommendation from former Bridport Prize judge, Monica Ali.
#WritingCommnunity
#DreamsComeTrue
We’re excited to announce that our Memoir Award is now open for entries! This year’s judge is
@KitdeWaal
, Bridport Prize Family member and all-round literary genius. Deadline 30 September 2023. All info on our website ➡️
#Memoir
#AmWriting
Congrats to
@CaroleAHailey
, former Novel Award shortlistee, who has been shortlisted for the 2024
@RSLiterature
Christopher Bland Prize! The overall winner will be announced on 10 July! 🎉
Carole’s debut novel The Silence Project is available now via
@CorvusBooks
! 📕