Our 50th competition
is now OPEN!
Our 50th competition is NOW open for Poetry, Short Story, Flash Fiction and Novel entries....
The Fay Weldon we knew. Formidable. Fantastic. Fearless
A life force Fay Weldon became honorary patron of The Bridport Prize in 2006, in...
Kathy Fish’s five approaches to writing Flash Fiction & why you should try them all
“I have an increasingly open sense of what a story is. Why not make room...
Cathy Rentzenbrink in her own words
Tune in! Watch here Cathy’s books are always hard to put down. They include...
Kate Maxwell. But did it look like a book?
‘I’d only shown it to my mum’ When I entered the Bridport prize, I’d been...
Memoir shortlist
Congratulations to our five shortlisted memoir writers!
Memoir longlist 2022
Here are the titles longlisted for this year’s Memoir Award. Congratulations to all the writers!...
Helpful holiday writing tips
from our winners
Happy holidays…and a happy new novel, short story, poetry, flash fiction It’s the end of...
Novel Shortlist 2022
The shortlisted novels for the Peggy Chapman-Andrews First Novel Award are: Blackwater I Want Mother,...