One week left to enter our Memoir Award - believe in your words! Deadline 30 September 23.59 UK time. All info at bridportprize.org.uk/the-competit... #AmWriting #WritingCompetition

Did you know that The Bridport Prize raises funds for Bridport Arts Centre, who are based in the heart of town in an 1830s Wesleyan Chapel?! 🎭🎶🏛️ Find out more at bridport-arts.com Our Memoir Award is open until the end of the month (2 weeks left!). All info at bridportprize.org.uk

Tickets bridport-arts.com/event/short-... The short story is one of the categories in the @bridportprize.bsky.social international creative writing competition, based at BAC.

Just over 3 weeks left to set your story free and enter our Memoir Award! 📝 First prize £1,500 + mentoring package 📝 This year's judge is Manni Coe 📝 Your memoir doesn't need to be finished Deadline 30 September. All need-to-knows at bit.ly/bp-memoir-award

If you’re working on a memoir, now’s your chance to set your words free – our Memoir Award is open for submissions until 30 September. Who knows what might happen. Just take it from Joanne Briggs, our first-ever Memoir Award winner! bridportprize.org.uk

Our Memoir Award is open for entries until 30 September! You could win a share of our £2,700 prize pot, as well as a mentoring package. Find out more about our writing competition at bit.ly/bp-memoir-award 🌎📝

Our anthologies are a great way to get inspired in your Writers' Corner! Browse winning words on our online shop: bridportprize.org.uk/shop/ 📙

...days left to submit your entry to our Memoir Award and be in with a chance of winning the top prize of £1,500 and a mentoring package. Open to all writers aged 16+ writing in English. Deadline 30 September. 👉 All entry info at bit.ly/bp-memoir-award

Give your story a chance! All Memoir Award entry info at bit.ly/memoir-award #WritingCompetition

Our Memoir Award is open for entries until 30 September! You could win a share of our £2,700 prize pot, as well as a mentoring package. Find out more about our writing competition at bit.ly/bp-memoir-award 🌎📝

...days left to submit your entry to our Memoir Award and be in with a chance of winning the top prize of £1,500 and a mentoring package. Open to all writers aged 16+ writing in English. Deadline 30 September. 👉 All entry info at bit.ly/bp-memoir-award

Our Memoir Award is open for entries! 📝 This year's judge is Manni Coe, best-selling author 📝 First prize £1,500 + mentoring package 📝 Your memoir doesn’t need to be finished to submit 📝 Open internationally to writers aged 16+ writing in English 📝 Deadline 30 September 2025 bit.ly/memoir-award

We've been discovering and encouraging writers since 1973! We want to hear your voice, your story, your words. Our Memoir Award is open until 30 September. All entry info on our website at bridportprize.org.uk

This is fantastic thank you @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social 😀

Wherever your Writers Corner is across the globe, you can enter our Memoir Award! Closes 30 September - your memoir doesn't need to be finished to submit. Find out more: bridportprize.org.uk/the-competit...

Memoir bursary applications close this week! 📝 A free entry to our memoir competition 📝 No proof of income required 📝 Applications close 31 July 📝 Limited supply so don't delay 📝 More info/apply: bit.ly/bridportpriz... #WritingPrize

Manni Coe is our Memoir judge! His advice for new memoirists? "Never compromise on truth but choose wisely what you share. Sometimes the empty spaces are where the real meaning lies. The things untold hold the power. Pour your heart out and then strip it back." More info at bit.ly/memoir-award

Memoir bursary applications now open for underrepresented writers! 📝 A free entry to our memoir competition 📝 No proof of income required 📝 Applications close 31 July 📝 Limited supply so don't delay 📝 More info/apply: bit.ly/bridportpriz...

See what your story could win! Your memoir doesn't need to be finished to enter our Memoir Award. Open internationally to writers 16+ writing in English. Deadline day 30 September. All entry info at bit.ly/memoir-award

Stay in the loop with key competition dates, both for Memoir (closing 30 September) and our other categories that closed at the end of May: Memoir Award: bit.ly/memoiraward-key-dates Flash fiction, short story, poetry: bit.ly/bridportprize-key-dates Novel Award: bit.ly/novel-award

Memoir bursary applications now open for underrepresented writers! 📝 A free entry to our memoir competition 📝 No proof of income required 📝 Applications close 31 July 📝 Limited supply so don't delay 📝 More info/apply: bit.ly/bridportpriz...

Release your story into the world: our Memoir Award is open for submissions. You could win £1,500 and a mentoring package! Your memoir doesn't need to be finished to enter. Judge Manni Coe. Deadline 30 Sept. Get started at bridportprize.org.uk/the-competition/memoir-award/ 📝

80 days left to enter our Memoir Award! It's time to share your story with the world, whether you’ve been keeping it hidden in your mind/a drawer/on your desktop. You could win a mentoring package + a share of our £2,700 prize pot! Enter by 30 September: bit.ly/memoir-award

Our Memoir Award is open for entries! 📝 This year's judge is Manni Coe, best-selling author 📝 First prize £1,500 + mentoring package 📝 Your memoir doesn’t need to be finished 📝 Open internationally to writers aged 16+ writing in English 📝 Deadline 30 Sept bit.ly/memoir-award for all info!

...by 30 September we need 5,000-8,000 words and a 300 word overview. Phew! All entry info: bit.ly/bp-memoir-award

Seizing the day with your writing doesn’t have to mean sitting down for 12 hours straight. Writing anything is an accomplishment! If you’re working on your memoir, you’ve got plenty of time to submit it to our Memoir Award (and it doesn't need to be finished!) All info at bit.ly/memoir-award

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💻 Online event next week! 💻 ✨ Discover more about writing memoir and how to make it personal. ✨ Featuring former award winners and Joe Sedgwick of The Literary Consultancy ✨ £10 / £1 tickets also available ✨ Sign up at www.crowdcast.io/c/memoir-2025 Memoir open for entries until 30 Sept!

Our Memoir Award is open for entries! 📝 This year's judge is Manni Coe, best-selling author 📝 First prize £1,500 + mentoring package 📝 Your memoir doesn’t need to be finished 📝 Open internationally to writers aged 16+ writing in English 📝 Closes 30 Sept 2025 bit.ly/memoir-award for all info!

See what your story could win! Your memoir doesn't need to be finished to enter our Memoir Award. Open internationally to writers 16+ writing in English. Deadline day 30 September. All entry info at bit.ly/memoir-award

This year's Memoir Award judge is Manni Coe: “I want to be taken gently by the hand and led through the backwaters, valleys and summits of your memories. By the end of the book I want to feel changed and inspired by a story that I will never forget.” Closes 30 Sept! All info: bit.ly/memoir-award

Exciting news – our Memoir Award is now open for entries! 📝 This year's judge is Manni Coe, best-selling author 📝 First prize £1,500 + mentoring package 📝 Your memoir doesn’t need to be finished 📝 Open internationally to writers aged 16+ writing in English 📝 bit.ly/memoir-award for all info

Our next online event is coming up! 🗓️💻 Every life has a story. Discover more about writing memoir and how to make it personal. ✨ Featuring former Memoir Award winners and Joe Sedgwick of The Literary Consultancy ✨ £10 / £1 tickets also available ✨ Sign up at www.crowdcast.io/c/memoir-2025

Our Memoir Award officially re-opens for submissions this Sunday 15 June! Deadline for entries 30 September 2025. All other need-to-knows: bridportprize.org.uk/the-competit...

🔑🗓️✍️ If you submitted your flash fiction, short story, poetry or novel to our creative writing competition, find out what happens next! Key competition dates can be found at bridportprize.org.uk/writers-room/key-dates-for-poetry-short-story-flash-fiction-novel/

Jo Briggs’ memoir, The Scientist Who Wasn’t There, is out TODAY! 🎉 Waterstones are hosting two launch events: Tonight (5 June) Waterstones Gower Street: bit.ly/5-june-event 11 June, Hatchards Piccadilly: bit.ly/11-june-event Our Memoir Award opens 15 June ➡️ bridportprize.org.uk 📷 Alice Mole

Save the date for when our Memoir Award re-opens! All need-to-knows at bridportprize.org.uk/the-competition/memoir-award/

Our competition is now closed. Well done and thank you to everyone who believed in their words and entered. You put your words out in the world and at the same time have helped us raise funds for Bridport Arts Centre. ❤️ Shout out and thanks also goes to to our partners, judges and readers!

Complete your writing competition submission by 23:59 UK time tonight, 31 May. ⏰ Head to bridportprize.org.uk to enter. Believe in your words - you can do it. Thank you to everyone who has entered so far...and relax!

...day left to enter our writing competition! Complete your submission for our flash fiction, poetry, short story or novel awards by 31 May 23:59 UK time. £20K prize pot! Extra awards for writers aged 16-25/60+ or if you're based in Dorset. bridportprize.org.uk

Our creative writing competition closes for entries this week (31 May 23:59 UK time). Find out more about this year's judges, including what they're looking for in entries and what they do when they're stuck! bridportprize.org.uk/the-competition/meet-the-judges/

Our flash fiction, short story, poetry and novel deadline is THIS week! Make a note of 31 May 23:59 UK time and give your words a chance. £20K prize pot! All info on our categories, word counts and more at bridportprize.org.uk

Don’t panic, there’s still time to enter our creative writing competition! 📝 Short story, flash fiction, poetry and novel categories 📝 £20K prize fund 📝 Deadline 31 May, 23:59 UK time 📝 All info at bridportprize.org.uk

Just entered @bridportprize.bsky.social, #poetry category. The submissions portal is blissfully user-friendly.

Submissions are open until the end of the month for our 2025 flash fiction, poetry, short story and novel prizes! 📝⭐ Don't forget, you may also be eligible for our Young Writer Award, Dorset Award or Never Too Late Award (you don't need to enter these separately). All info at bridportprize.org.uk

We’re into the high teens in terms of days to go! 🗓️ 19 days left to submit your poetry, flash fiction, short story or novel extract to our competition. Don’t panic – believe in your words. All entry info at bridportprize.org.uk Deadline day 31 May. Best of luck if you’ve already submitted. 🍀

Today's listing of the day is: Bridport Prize Poetry Award @bridportprize.bsky.social (fee-based) #WritingCommunity

"It’s better to remove whole sections or paragraphs than attack sentences until they’re tonally flat" So much great wisdom here from @tobylitt.bsky.social

Love this: "To write a novel you need to have one good idea; to write flash fiction you need two – one to get you into the story, and the other to get you out."

Toby Litt, this year's Flash Fiction judge, shares his top 10 flash fiction tips! Head to bridportprize.org.uk/news/toby-litts-top-ten-flash-fiction-tips/ Submission deadline for flash fiction entries is 31 May - just over 30 days to go! @tobylitt.bsky.social #FlashFiction