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    Read our Memoir 2025 winners!

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    Poetry
    Short Story
    Flash Fiction
    Novel

    Competition Deadline:
    31st May 2026 - 23:59 BST


    Memoir


    Competition Deadline:

    30th September 2026
    23:59 BST

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    Read our Memoir 2025 winners!

    Read our Memoir 2025 winners!

    We’re delighted to share extracts from our winning and runner-up memoirs – and some words...
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    And the Memoir winners 2025 are…

    And the Memoir winners 2025 are…

    Alinah Azadeh Meeting the Water  Congratulations! Prize: £1,500 plus… A year’s mentoring from The Literary...
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    Memoir shortlist

    Memoir shortlist

    We are delighted to announce the memoir shortlisted titles. The judges have selected six this...
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    Memoir writing. Keep it legal <br> By Euan Thorneycroft <br> Literary Agent

    Memoir writing. Keep it legal
    By Euan Thorneycroft
    Literary Agent

    Memoirs are fascinating to read because they are about real people (and sometimes organisations). But...
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    Catch up and fire up your creative writing! <br> £5 per event

    Catch up and fire up your creative writing!
    £5 per event

    From motivation to inspiration, hear from winners, published authors and literary agents featured in our...
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    Read our Memoir winners!

    Read our Memoir winners!

    At last you can read their memoir extracts and thoughts on hearing the good news...
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    And the Memoir winner is…

    And the Memoir winner is…

    Margie Mitchell The Matter of My Sister Congratulations!
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    Our Top Twelve! <br> The Memoir Longlist

    Our Top Twelve!
    The Memoir Longlist

      Congratulations! We proudly present our Memoir longlisters. Only titles appear as the competition continues...
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    Cathy Rentzenbrink’s summer writing tips

    Cathy Rentzenbrink’s summer writing tips

    1. Get going We are inclined to think we need all the answers before we...
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